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Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie writes Mr. Hitchcock to support the plan to build a music hall in New York City at Madison Square. Carnegie also provides advice on the site, size, and income yield of the proposed music hall. In addition, Carnegie notes that he discussed the plans with other...
Location: I-AsbellY-1976-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
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
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
