Library and Information Technology Services (LITS)

This collection is the result of an invitation to Allegheny College Community members to submit their personal reflections on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their lives and the lives of those around them. The collection shares these items as a way to build understanding, strengthen our community, foster human connection, and preserve personal accounts of this global event for future generations and scholarly research.

Submissions to the collection are still being accepted. If you would like to contribute to the collection, please review the submission instructions.

This collection contains the letters (handwritten with typed transcripts) of Willard A. Cutter, a private in the 150th Pennsylvania Regiment, Company, also known as Lincoln’s Guard. The letters document conversations between Williard Cutter and his mother, Eliza Cutter, and two brothers George Cutter and William Cutter, who all lived in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The letters were written from Soldier’s Home, the White House and Washington, D.C.

For further information about these letters, please contact Jane Westenfeld (jwestenf@allegheny.edu).

This collection is the result of an invitation to Allegheny College Community members to submit their creative works that best convey their experiences and express their thoughts and feelings during the period of social unrest of 2020. The collection shares these items as a way to build understanding, strengthen our community, foster human connection, and preserve personal accounts of these troubling events for future generations and scholarly research.

Submissions to the collection are still being accepted. If you would like to contribute to the collection, please review the submission instructions.