Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
John W. Yost writes Frank T. Bell and describes his missionary work at a boys school in China as well as asks for financial help to establish scholarships . In addition, Yost notes how the reaction to news that the Emperor and Empress Dowager had died. "The people were greatly grieved indeed,...
Location: I-BellR-1982-1
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers ('93) writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, about Birrell’s claim in his book, Life of William Hazlitt, that “the presidency of [Dickinson] College” was offered to Hazlitt in 1783. Sellers, who is in the process of “collecting...
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Dickinson Professor Leonard Blakey receives this letter from a member of the Economics and Sociology Department at Bowdoin College regarding job possibilities at that college as well as John A. Hobson's economic theories.
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and describes an observance of "Nisbet Day" that morning at Dickinson College, explains how Charles Nisbet became the first President of Dickinson, and provides additional information about Charles...
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Andrew Carnegie writes to Funk & Wagnalls Company, a publishing company in New York City, thanking them for their gift of their new standard dictionary. "I placed the new Standard Dictionary at my side-a sure refuge in the day of trouble with our exceedingly rich but most irregular language...
Location: I-AsbellY-1976-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Medal of Honor Recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) drafts a letter to President William H. Taft, disagreeing with Taft on the future of the Progressive Party. Includes a photocopy of an earlier letter from Taft to King, in which Taft declines the presidency of City College.
Location: I-HanwayJ-1975-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
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
Jane Perkins writes to Professor Leonard Blakey regarding their last meeting as well as her recent trip. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins regarding Dickinson's commencement, the political stir behind selecting Professor James Henry Morgan as President Eugene Allen Noble's successor. "So many petty men are busy having their interests pushed by their little groups of friends," as...
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
An unknown student at Dickinson College writes to a Mitchell about the winter and getting ready for the fraternity dances that take place in February. The dances "will be quite a large and informal affair" and, as the student tells Mitchell, "I am getting very anxious for it." Transcript...
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Writer and poet William Rose Benét writes to Lawton Mackall, asking him to contribute to a one-off literary magazine called The Chimaera.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
William Rose Benét writes two letters to Lawton Mackall: the first promises poems and includes a drawing; the second explains Benét's plans to travel for ten days.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Esther H. King writes to Whitelaw Saunders regarding her late husband, Horatio Collins King.
Location: I-SpahrB-1958-36
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Edwin Elliot Willoughby (Class of 1922) writes to Mrs. Spears, his former instructor, in which he discusses his time at Dickinson, his career at the Newberry Library afterwards, and his future goals of continuing his education at the University of Chicago. Transcript included.
Location: I-DawsonG-1981-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Painter Horace Thompson Carpenter writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle, announcing the completion of a portrait of Charles Nisbet commissioned by the College.
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Cassandra Lee Arnold writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Arnold thanks Biddle for the photograph of it that he sent her and promises "I will certainly go over all of the old letters in my return to the Farm this Summer."...
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Genealogy and Family History, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Mary Logan writes to William White regarding Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of John Dickinson. Logan explains that her husband left the portrait to the Pennsylvania Historical Society in his will.
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Lawyer William White writes to Dickinson College Trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of John Dickinson, housed at the Pennsylvania Historical Society. "The enclosed letter has sad news and I am very sorry that it will probably be impossible for Dickinson College...
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
William Rose Benet writes to an unspecified "Albert" concerning the publication details of a book of poems by an unspecified "Sara." Benet also discusses details of payment.
Location: I-Friends-1979 -2
Subject: Business and Industry, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Stephen Vincent Benet thanks a Miss Adlard for her letter describing the performance of Miss Locke. "It was extremely interesting to hear about it and I know that Miss Locke must have given a beautiful and unusual performance," as Benet observes.
Location: I-Friends-1975-3
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Stephen Vincent Benét writes to his sister, Laura Benét, on the slowness of his writing and distress over news from abroad. Includes envelope.
Location: I-Friends-1982-2
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
William H. Vastine, a member of the Class of 1937, writes to Dr. Hartman regarding his experience taking classes at State College during the summer as well as preaching in local churches. "State College is a very lovely place but," as Vastine explains, "the school is so large and the student...
Location: I-Original-1936-2
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Newton Tarkington writes to Charles Sellers with advice on the attribution of a portrait of painter Benjamin West.
Location: I-SellersC-1955-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Marianne Moore responds to Miss McGlade's request for copies of Moore's published work. While Moore states that she will request copies of The Egoist for McGlade and a friend, Moore dissuades McGlade from purchasing a copy of her most recent book, The Pangolin. "Our high duty...
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-55
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
