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The papers of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, 1783-1833, include correspondence, reports, financial statements, printed materials, and legal documents, and have been arranged into seven series.
Series 1 – Membership contains...
Location: RG 1/1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Reports
Collection Inventory: 
RG 1-001.pdf
Charles Nisbet writes bookseller William Young to discuss various political and religious events in France, Ireland, and the United States. Nisbet mentions Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson, Mathew Carey, James Napper Tandy, Joseph Priestley, and others. "It is not probable that [France]...
Location: I-McIntoshM-1965-5
Subject: Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe writes to Mary Hazlehurst Latrobe, his second wife, about his dinner with President Thomas Jefferson. Latrobe discusses the other guests at the dinner and the his thoughts on building a drydock for the United States Navy. Transcript included.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of Old West, writes to Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge and explains his plan as well as his design choices for the building. This letter accompanies his sketches for the new building. Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe creates these two sketches as part of his proposal for the new academic building at Dickinson College. Latrobe's two sketches are for the north front and the basement of West College.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.2
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: 1800-1819
Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge writes to trustee James Hamilton about architect Benjamin Latrobe's plans for a new building (West College). Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Dickinson College trustee Hugh Henry Brackenridge writes to another trustee, James Hamilton, and further discusses Benjamin Latrobe's design for the new building (West College) at the school. Transcript included.
Location: RG 1/1 - 5.4.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
