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Moncure Daniel Conway was born into a southern aristocratic family, but ultimately became one of the nation's leading abolitionists and humanitarians. Conway was a graduate of Dickinson College in 1849 and was trained for the ministry at Harvard Divinity School. The collection consists mainly of...
Location: MC 1999.6
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: 
mc1999.06.pdf
The Dickinsoniana Newspaper Collection consists of various newspapers acquired by the Library over the years. These items feature articles which concern mainly Dickinson College: happenings on campus, curriculum offerings, and doings of famous alumni such as James Buchanan and Roger Brooke Taney...
Location: Dickinsoniana – Newspaper Collection 1769-2001
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: Dickinsoniana - Annotated Newspaper List
Collection Inventory: Dickinsoniana - Subject Index
Marcus Junius Parrott records his thoughts and activities as a college student in Ohio, then in Pennsylvania at Dickinson College (graduating in 1849), as a law student thereafter at Cambridge Law School, and a few entries from 1857 when Parrott serves as delegate to Congress from the Kansas...
Location: I-Friends-2004-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Moncure Daniel Conway, a 1849 graduate of Dickinson College, records a critical time in his personal development as he moves from life as a Methodist preacher to Harvard Divinity School, Unitarianism, and freethought, meeting and befriending Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau along the...
Location: MC 1999.6, B2, F8
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Clergyman and abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway (Class of 1849) writes to an unspecified man, stating that he has accepted Laurence Hutton's invitation to an upcoming meeting and asking permission to bring his friend John Bigelow with him.
Location: I-AsbellY-2003-10
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Moncure D. Conway carries a letter for abolitionist William L. Garrison, who writes from Boston to his friend, Andrew Paton in Glasgow, Scotland, and introduces Conway in terms of highest commendation. Garrison also explains that Conway is on "an anti-slavery mission to England." Garrison hopes...
Location: I-SpahrB-1964-4
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Clergyman and abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway (Class of 1849) writes a letter of sympathy to the parent of an unnamed acquaintance recently deceased: "I had just returned from a tour in Russia to hear of the death of your son, who I might almost call my friend..."
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
English philosopher John Stuart Mill writes Moncure D. Conway and invites him and his wife to appear as a special guest at an upcoming dinner party. Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-2004-5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
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
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
Moncure D. Conway writes Mr. Woolner to clarify his request for a photograph of Mr. Woolner's "bust of [Thomas] Carlyle."
Location: I-Friends-2001-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Moncure D. Conway (class of 1849) thanks a friend for the "encouraging letter" regarding Conway's deliberation on whether "to print the discourse" or to wait and publish "a more complete statement" at a later date.
Location: I-Friends-2001-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School. This issue includes a tribute to Moncure D. Conway (class of 1849) on his death.
This yearbook includes a fold-out photograph of the academic quad between pages 50 and 51, which you can ...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
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
A description of this document is not currently available.
Location: DC 1870 B584m
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 2 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
Typescript of "Moncure Conway and German Philosophy," a speech given by Loyd D. Easton of Ohio Wesleyan University for the Boyd Lee Spahr Lecture at Dickinson College on April 24, 1969.
Location: I-Original-1969-1
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1960-1979
Publisher: York, PA: York Composition Company, Inc.
Volume 4 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
