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Julius "Steve" Kassovic taught in the Sociology-Anthropology Department at Dickinson from 1979 to 1984. This collection contains assignments from his popular Introduction to Folklore course, during which students gathered jokes, stories, myths, ethnic expressions and other pieces of folkore from...
Location: MC 2010.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Miscellaneous, Music, Poetry and Lyrics
Collection Inventory: 
mc2010.01.pdf
Charles Nisbet writes to bookseller William Young regarding a packet from an unspecified Mr. Wilson with two letters for Europe. Nisbet also asks for a paper, discusses Carlisle weather, and speculates about the French Revolution.
Location: I-MHS-1987-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Theologian and scholar Joseph Priestley writes to his friend Theophilus Lindsey. Priestley discusses his recent move to Northumberland, Pennsylvania, trouble with the mail, the local climate, the prospect for building, his work, the French Revolution, and the cause of Unitarianism. Transcript...
Location: I-BeachW-undated-1
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland writes to Alexander Nisbet regarding his feelings for Nisbet's niece, Miss Alison McCoskry. " Almost at our very first meeting I found myself agitated by feelings that I never before had experienced," as Cleveland explains. Cleveland also expresses concern over...
Location: I-ClevelandR-1978-1
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes to James Humes regarding the "unpleasant circumstances attending my departure" from the United States, Pennsylvania Governor George Wolf's re-election, and increasing sectional tensions. Buchanan also describes his experience living in St. Petersburg as the United States...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F12
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Thomas McFadden, a member of the Class of 1845, writes Robert Black about life at Dickinson College. McFadden "know[s] not what reasons particularly influenced my parents to chose this place except its known celebrity for every thing good, and the moral reputation which it sustains," and...
Location: I-Friends-1978-4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney writes to J. Mason Campbell about the summer at Old Point with regard to the nearby outbreak of yellow fever and the construction of a new wharf. While his family is safe from the outbreak, Taney finds sadness in the illness and death as well as the...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-18
Subject: Business and Industry, Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney thanks his daughter, Alice Taney Campbell, for sending a letter that arrives on his 79th birthday. Campbell's "affectionate remembrance," as Taney explains, reminds him of her "affectionate & constant attention to [her] dear grandmother."...
Location: I-SpahrB-1964-7
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney writes to his granddaughter, Phoebe K. Campbell, about the summer weather as well as reports and comments on various family news. Family members mentioned include Phoebe's aunt Maria and Mr. Allison, her siblings Alice and Taney, her father, her...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-9
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
John Taylor Cuddy writes three letters to his friends and family describing life as a soldier for the Union Army during the Civil War. Cuddy also comments on the places he has visited, the weather conditions, his unit's future orders, and reflects on his relationship with a girl named Anna....
Location: MC 2001.9, B1, F8
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
David B. Herman prepared this oration, entitled “Effect of Climate on Character," for the commencement ceremonies held June 29, 1865. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1865-H551eX
Subject: International Affairs, Weather and Climate
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes two letters to George Lawrence regarding travel plans and the weather. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F15
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins from the SS Potsdam on his way home from a trip to Europe . "We had very bad weather, the fog lasted for four days steadily with the fog horn signal every sixty seconds," as Blakey notes. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
