Scope and content Miscellaneous papers of Asa Fitch of Washington County include notes on ornithology, 1837; undated notes on medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and entomology; drafts of Stillwater Lyceum lectures on temperance and other subjects, 1830s; address before the Executive Committee of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1843; and other notes on his agricultural interests. There is also a diary, 1863-65, of Fitch's daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Lemuel) Poates of Bolton, Mississippi, describing...