Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Clergyman and abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway (Class of 1849) bids farewell to newspaper editor St. Clair M'Kelway before leaving Belgium. Conway encloses postage for 100 issues of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, M'Kelway's publication, and promises to "read no other paper."
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-2
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher writes to Horatio Collins King about King's apparent change of mind on becoming a publisher for Christian Union. Beecher accepts King's decision regretfully after admonishing that "backward" steps can be taken if they lead to "better promise in the future...
Location: I-HartC-1981-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Horatio C. King to discuss musical compositions and to suggest changes to the Christian Union. "I want the C Union to put the public in early possession of the signal hymns of the [revival?] times," as Stowe explains. King is the editor of the Christian...
Location: I-Friends-2011-2
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
S. Homer Dosh writes to his mother, Mrs. J. H. C. Dosh, about life in Carlisle as a student at Dickinson College. He comments on the Presbyterian church, saying that the ministers are boring and that there "is not fire enough in the meetings." In addition, Dosh expresses an interest in possibly...
Location: I-BaconJ-1961-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird (Class of 1843) writes to James T. Ames about his hopes of having "a good long talk." Baird tried calling at Ames's hotel, but he was not there. Baird gives Ames his hours at the Smithsonian and invites him to visit there or at his home.
Location: I-Friends-1983-11
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Dickinson College President James McCauley writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson. Dosh is an excellent student and is a "young man of excellent character – is a professing Christian, and has, during his stay with...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Joshua Lippincott writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson, for a program at that institution. "[Dosh] has proved himself both industrious and successful" at Dickinson, as Lippincott explains. Transcript...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles F. Himes writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson, for a program at that institution. Himes discusses Dosh's thesis, "Some Experiments in Taking Transparencies," and assures Gilman that the thesis is...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Amy A. Carothers writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew, thanking Agnew for his donation of five dollars to Carothers' class of Indians. Carothers also notes that Howling Wolf is under Agnew's treatment for an eye condition. Transcript included.
Location: CIS-MC-001, B1, F1
Subject: Education, Native Americans
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to his colleague Charles Bell. Baird thanks Bell for his "assistance in securing for us the magnificent collection of mining materials in the Canadian exhibit" of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to his colleague Charles Bell at the Canadian Geological Survey, following up on his previous letter. He writes to urge Bell "to press the matter to a decision on the subject of transfers to the Smithsonian as soon as...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Canadian Geological Survey. Baird is anxious to receive geological specimens from someone at the Survey. He also thanks Bell for his "intervention with the private exhibition" and answers a...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Canadian Geological Survey. Baird is grateful to have received Professor Selwyer's stratigraphical series of American rocks, but he is disappointed at not being able to obtain other...
Location: I-Friends-1987-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding a paper Bell ordered that was lost in the mail. Baird writes that he will send another and adds: "Any other Smithsonian publications you desire, you...
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to Professor Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada, regarding books that were lost in the mail.
Location: I-Friends-1987-4
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Amy A. Carothers writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding the delayed admittance of some of Carothers' students to the Hampton Normal School. Carothers also requests financial support from Agnew to pay for the students' fees. Transcript included.
Location: CIS-MC-001, B1, F2
Subject: Education, Native Americans
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Charles F. Deems thanks Mrs. Lausing Thurber for her "kind note" and asks for her attention "to Frank Leslie Sunday Magazine." Deems, a member of the Class of 1839, explains how he is "now editing" that publication. Transcript included.
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-4
Subject: Business and Industry, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer F. Baird writes to Horatio R. Storer about collecting specimens of fish. Baird describes how to outfit a boat with trawls, dredges, and nets to collect fish for study. He thanks him for his help and explains that "although by the kind assistance of our Samuel Powel, we have most of the...
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-10
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Commanding General of the United States Army William Tecumseh Sherman writes Horatio Collins King to discuss the military's political tensions with Congress that exist despite the fact that US Army "Regulars... are surrounded by Indians and dangers of the most unpleasant kind." Sherman, who...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-22
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer F. Baird asks Brantz Mayer to consider "turning over" his collections to the Smithsonian Institution. Baird, who is particularly interested in the "Mexican Collection," promises Mayer that the items would be on exhibit in "the finest class of walnut case, with plate glass."
Location: I-SpahrB-1963-3
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Civil engineer Montgomery C. Meigs writes to Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullterton Baird, regarding building plans with offices for science professors, laboratories, a library, and a museum.
Location: I-Original-1879-1
Subject: Education, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Edwin Austin Abbey writes to George Henry Boughton apologizing for not having said goodbye before leaving. Abbey further seeks forgiveness for having disliked Moncure Conway prior to formally meeting him with Boughton. Abbey describes the time he has spent traveling with Conway and reflects on...
Location: I-Purchase-1954-2
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior in President James Buchanan's administration, writes Jeremiah Sullivan Black and asks for advice on what to do about the slander in John Bonner's Child's History of the United States. Black also served in President Buchanan's administration as...
Location: I-Friends-1991-12
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Harriet Lane Johnston writes Judge Jeremiah Sullivan Black to defending her uncle's (President James Buchanan) motives for distribution of offices during his administration. "One thing I do know," as Johnston explains, is "that if he had an...
Location: MC 1998.10, B4, F16
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
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
