Ida Nelson recalls "The great indoor amusement of Elmer and Arthur here was writing story books, these they covered & kept in a box, till they really had quite a little library" (Sketches of Home Life, vol 1, p.2). Explore the full-texts and transcriptions of the Nelson brothers' library of home-made books. Scans of items in the "Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection of Pamela Russell and Murray McClellan, ca. 1892-1895" is also available through Amherst College Digital Collections.