Horatio Collins King's diary during his first semester as a student at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
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September - December 1854
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
January - July 1855
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his first year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
September - December 1855
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his second year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
January - July 1856
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his second year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
September - December 1856
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his third year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
January - July 1857
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his third year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
October - December 1857
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his senior year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
January - August 1858
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his senior year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
1858-1859
Horatio Collins King, a member of the Class of 1858, records his thoughts and activities of his daily life in the first year after his graduation from Dickinson College. King's entries include notes on his travels through New England, Canada, and New York. In addition, King discusses social life...
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F1
Subject: Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
October 31, 1864 - November 15, 1865
Horatio Collins King, serving as the divisional quartermaster under General Philip Sheridan, describes cavalry activities in the Shenandoah Valley during the final months of the Civil War. In addition, King discusses the adjustments he made in returning to civilian life in New York after the war...
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F2
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1860-1879
December 26, 1865 - September 28, 1869
Horatio Collins King details his life in post-war New York City society, including his work as a lawyer, his second marriage to Esther A. Howard and honeymoon at Niagara Falls, and a trip to Nebraska aboard the new Union Pacific railroad. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1860-1879
May 2, 1880
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to Susie Howard and asks for help in buying a layette for her first grandchild as well as discusses plans for their upcoming trip to Saco, Maine. Stowe also mentions how she "had to give up going" to another city. "I can't be everywhere at once," as Stowe explains....
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 14, 1880
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Susie Howard to discuss plans for their trip to Saco, Maine. Stowe also mentions the possibility of stopping at a Mrs. Claflin's house during the trip. "She will be delighted to see you," as Stowe explains. Stowe also asks Howard to "reply immediately." "I want to go...
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 16, 1880
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Susie Howard and discusses plans for their trip to Saco, Maine.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
December 21, 1882
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to Susie Howard and apologizes for "neglect." "I was so unwell and Mr. Stowe so unwell... that nobody ought to have expected any thing of me," as Stowe explains. Stowe also tells Howard that her Christmas card is in the mail.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
February 5, 1883
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to Susie Howard regarding her poor health, complaining of crippling rheumatism, and family news. "Everything tires me - though I try to act as if I feel well," as Stowe explains. Stowe also mentions that all her friends are gone and that she believes that she is...
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 19, 1883
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Susie Howard and discusses her acceptance of a invitation by a "Mrs. White."
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
October 14, 1886
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes several months after her husband's, Calvin Ellis Stowe, death and declines Susie Howard's invitation for a visit Stowe also shares other family news.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
May 10, 1892
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Essie King and thanks her for sending her pictures of King's daughter. "God bless them and you and your husband," as Stowe notes.
Location: MC 1999.9, B1, F4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
January 24, 1893
Harriet Beecher Stowe discusses her feelings about life in her old age, stating "I tell you that life to me now is but an afterglow. My sun has set. The time of work for me is over. I have written all my words, and thought all my thoughts." She also reminisces about her deceased brother, and...
Location: MC 1999.9, B1, F4
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
