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Ralph Bowie writes to John Montgomery, the President of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, in an attempt to settle Dr. Charles Nisbet's claims against the College. Transcript included.
Location: I-ValeM-1947-14
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Economics and Finance, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
James McKenzie writes a letter to President Charles Nisbet expressing apprehension over a potential invasion of Great Britain by France, and the precautions taken against it. "Our fleets are as formidable as our armies, and watch the motions of the French so closely, that they cannot get out of...
Location: MC 2001.7, B1, F4
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Charles Keith publishes this item a year after the death of Dr. Charles Nisbet.
Note: See Related Entries for a link to Keith's letter to Anne Nisbet on July 11, 1805.
Location: DC P N723K
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1800-1819
Charles Keith writes to Anne Nisbet regarding the death of her husband. "One of the best of Men is forever lost to his Friends and Mankind," as Keith observes. Keith also explains his decision to write Monody to the Memory of the Rev. Dr Charles Nisbet and asks that the Nisbet family "...
Location: I-TurnbullM-undated-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
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
While Charles Nisbet wrote "Hints on Education" around the time he became the first President of Dickinson College around 1785, it was not published in The Port Folio until 1812. Transcript included.
Charles Nisbet, "Hints on Education," The Port Folio 8, no. 3 (...
Location: Charles Nisbet Dropfile
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1800-1819
Rev. Charles Collins, the eleventh president of Dickinson College, writes this short biography of Rev. Charles Nisbet, the first president of the College, in 1853.
Charles Collins, "Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., First President of Dickinson College," The Ladies Repository 13, no....
Location: Special Collections Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
President Charles Collins writes this short history of Dickinson College in 1856.
Charles Collins, "Dickinson College," The Ladies' Repository 16 (August 1856): 449-453.
Location: Special Collections Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1840-1859
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
Hugh Henry Brackenridge's memoir of Charles Nisbet, received in "The Historical Society" on January 22, 1883. This transcript was copied by Professor Joshua Allen Lippincott (class of 1858).
Location: I-Original-1883-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Literary Pursuits
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1880-1899
Sarah Woods Parkinson publishes this short profile on Dr. Charles Nisbet in 1908.
Location: DC P N723P
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and describes an observance of "Nisbet Day" that morning at Dickinson College, explains how Charles Nisbet became the first President of Dickinson, and provides additional information about Charles...
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
Painter Horace Thompson Carpenter writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle, announcing the completion of a portrait of Charles Nisbet commissioned by the College.
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 1 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
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
Ralph Wallace White's biography of Dr. Charles Nisbet.
Location: DC 1929 W587c
Subject: Dickinson College History, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
A description of this item is not currently available.
Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 1
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
A description of this item is not currently available.
Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 2
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Ralph Wallace White provides 21 charts that trace the genealogy of Charles Nisbet's descendants.
Location: DC 1929 W587g
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
