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Former President of Pennsylvania John Dickinson writes to Confederation Congress delegate Tench Coxe, commenting on the ratification of the United States Constitution by New Hampshire (the required ninth and final state) and the creation of the new government. Dickinson also reasserts that he...
Location: I-AsbellY-1975-5
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
President of Pennsylvania John Dickinson instructs David Rittenhouse, treasurer of Pennsylvania, to issue payment for Charles Willson Peale's Triumphal Arch and to pay 150 pounds to the American Philosophical Society. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F8-9
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Dickinson writes to Attorney General Caesar Rodney discussing the implications of the United Kingdom's policies towards other countries. "The infatuated Policy of Britain has placed her in such a position, that she seems to think her safety depends on Hostility against the World," as...
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F4
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
An anonymous author writes this essay on the history of Dickinson College, which is published in The Port Folio, vol. 5 (March 1811): 239-246. This essay is published with B. Tanner's engraving of West College, which was created from a sketch by A. Brackenridge.
Location: RG 1/1 - 7.3.2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
A speech about the history of Dickinson College written by an anonymous author for a reunion of Dickinson alumni in 1866. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1866-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor William Henry Allen delivers a speech, "Dickinson College: An Historical Sketch," about the first 90 years of the College's history to the Philadelphia Conference Historical Society. The Dickinsonian publishes Allen's speech in the April 6, 1875 issue. Transcript included....
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
Frank G. Graham prepared this oration, entitled “John Dickinson," for the commencement ceremonies held June 28, 1883. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: OrationsX-1883-G738j
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Politics and Government
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Scholar Charles Janeway Stille writes to clergyman George Edward Ellis about Stille's biography of John Dickinson. Stille is having difficulty getting access to sources held by private collectors.
Location: I-Original-1891-3
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
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
James M. Tunnell, Jr., an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, delivers an address entitled "John Dickinson and the Federal Constitution" to several "patriotic groups" such as the Colonial Dames and Sons of the American Revolution on September 17, 1952. This address marks the...
Location: I-TunnellJ-undated-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1940-1959
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
Publisher: Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press
Volume 3 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, Education, Politics and Government, Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
Lena Dickinson Outlaw provides information on the Dickinson family history in Dickinson Genealogy: Circa 750 to 1977 .
Location: DC T D553o
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
