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Civil War veteran John Murray Corse writes to Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858), sending regrets that he cannot attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac due to a prior engagement.
Location: I-BeachW-1974-2
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Admiral David Dixon Porter acknowledges an invitation and tells Brevet Colonel Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) that he will attend a reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3, 1888.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-32
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Susan Howard, wife of John T. Howard, writes to her son-in-law Horatio Collins King regarding family and church affairs.
Location: I-HartC-1981-2
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King writes to Frank Hamlin, declining the latter's invitation to a Sons of Maine banquet. Collins reminisces of his days as editor of The Jeffersonian and of his old friends, most of who are no longer living. Transcript included.
Location: I-BeachW-1975-8
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio King writes a personal letter to his son, Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858), and comments on a Mr. Phelps, "John Bull" and the Monroe Doctrine, President Grover Cleveland, as well as events in Mexico and Oregon.
Location: I-SpahrB-1958-35
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes to Luther R. Marsh saying he will send additional reports about the Society of the Army of the Potomac. While King admits looking forward to retirement and being able to "play marbles," he is also "still at the bar - hard at work - doing very well and...
Location: I-SpahrB-1962-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Former US Senator Benjamin Harrison writes to Horatio Collins King and explains that he cannot attend the annual reunion of the Society of the Potomac in Troy, New York.
Location: I-Friends-1991-6
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King writes to Luther R. Marsh, reminiscing about an enjoyable reunion they had had and discussing the value and interest of the Annual Reports. A postscript adds that he voted for William McKinley.
Location: I-BellW-1973-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes to Hon. Luther R. Marsh commenting on the politics and corruption of the legal bench and bar. Judges purchase their nominations at a high price and, as King explains, "we are overrun with pettifoggers."
Location: I-SpahrB-1962-2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Attorney Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes to Edward C. Brennan and accepts an invitation to speak at the 47th Regiment Armory in New York City.
Location: I-BeachW-1983-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King writes to Hon. Luther R. Marsh, sharing his appreciation for Marsh's work and to sort out an issue referred to as "Niagara."
Location: I-SpahrB-1962-3
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King, a member of the Class of 1858, edited this collection of songs related to Dickinson College.
Location: DC 784.622 D553s
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) shares a poem with Luther R. Marsh to celebrate his 88th birthday.
Location: I-SpahrB-1962-4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) shares with Luther R. Marsh thoughts on aging.
Location: I-SpahrB-1962-4
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Medal of Honor Recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes this "Poem" on the history of Dickinson College.
Location: I-GrayM-1953-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College History, Literary Pursuits
Format: Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1900-1919
Horatio Collins King writes from Brooklyn to Mrs. Albert M. Smith in Middletown, Connecticut, and agrees to send autographs from General Daniel Sickles and General Grenville M. Dodge, the latter a Corps Commander in the Western Army.
Location: I-Purchase-1958-6
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
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
Medal of Honor recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes a five-page composition entitled "Reminiscences" in pencil. He discusses his Dickinson College experience and includes notes of planned citations from his journal.
Location: I-GrayM-1953-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations
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
