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Dickinson College President Charles Collins writes two letters to his wife, Harriet Collins, while at a Methodist church conference in Hagerstown, Maryland. Collins also spoke at a missionary meeting along with Abel Stevens. Collins also notes that he is impatient to see her again when he...
Location: I-EwigC-1990-1
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Dickinson College President Charles Collins writes five letters to his wife, Harriet Collins, while on a trip. Collins describes his travel experience as well as the various meetings he attended. Collins explains that "contrary to expectation when I first came, I have enjoyed myself very much"...
Location: I-EwigC-1990-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan writes eight letters from London to James L. Reynolds on a number of different subjects, including life as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom, the Vienna Conference, the Crimean War, the Nebraska Bill, and the 1856 Presidential election. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan describes his experience working and living in London as United States Minister to the United Kingdom and comments on the latest political news from the United States. George Plitt is a Pennsylvania attorney. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B3, F14
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Tiphen Walsingham Allen, from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, records his thoughts and activities from November 1853 to August 1854 as a student at Dickinson College. Allen is a member of the Class of 1854. Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-2003-6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan writes to Lily Macalester and describes his life in London as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom. "I should be far happier in retirement at Wheatland than amidst the gaiety of London," as Buchanan notes. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B3, F15
Subject: Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Harriet Lane writes to Lily Macalester and discusses her voyage to London. She will be presented to Queen Victoria later that week. In addition, Lane notes that she attended the opera with a Mr. Peabody and sat in a box opposite of the Queen. Lane is living with her uncle, James Buchanan, who...
Location: I-Friends-2001-5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan, the United States Minister to the United Kingdom, writes four letters to General James Watson Webb regarding Buchanan's experiences living in London and international affairs, including the Ostend Manifesto, the Vienna Conference, and the prospects for peace. Buchanan also notes...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
A printed advertisement for Carlisle Springs, which announces June 10, 1855 as the opening date and lists prices for board and horse keeping.
Location: I-SellersC-1961-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Land and Real Estate, Travel and Tourism
Format: Broadsides and Posters
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan, the United States Minister to the United Kingdom, writes to Miss Eliza Watterston and offers condolences regarding the death of her father and a Mrs. Baker. Buchanan also explains that he is ready to return home. "I long to return to my own country which is the happiest land...
Location: MC 1998.10, B3, F20
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan, the United States Minister to the United Kingdom, writes to Mr. Tyler regarding his plans to leave London as soon as George Dallas, his successor, arrives. Buchanan is not looking forward to the trip back home. " I am a very very...
Location: MC 1998.10, B3, F21
Subject: Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Robert Cooper Grier (Class of 1812) writes to his brother, Nelson Grier, and discusses a picnic as well as a trip to the mountains.
Location: I-Friends-1981-7
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
First Lady Harriet Lane writes to Lily Macalester about the going ons of Washington D.C., her trip to Pennsylvania, Macalester's trip to West Point, as well as various bits of gossip. Lane also comments on several political figures, including Secretary of War John B. Floyd and Senator Stephen...
Location: I-Friends-2000-8
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King, a member of the Class of 1858, records his thoughts and activities of his daily life in the first year after his graduation from Dickinson College. King's entries include notes on his travels through New England, Canada, and New York. In addition, King discusses social life...
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F1
Subject: Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
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
Former President James Buchanan writes to Jeremiah Sullivan Black regarding his health and to plan a get together. Buchanan plans "to visit the Bedford Springs the present season." Black served in President Buchanan's administration as the U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of State.
Location: I-Friends-2004-2
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Ned Hastings (Class of 1865) writes to his four sisters about his life as a student at Harvard and in Boston. Hastings also compares Harvard's campus to Dickinson's campus as well as comments on how Boston is different from New York and Philadelphia. "Talk about Dickinson's Campus," Hastings...
Location: I-Friends-1975-16
Subject: Education, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Ned Hastings (Class of 1865) writes to Jane Hastings, his mother, describing his search for housing and receiving his "certificate as 'a member of Harvard Law School". Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-1975-16
Subject: Education, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Horatio Collins King details his life in post-war New York City society, including his work as a lawyer, his second marriage to Esther A. Howard and honeymoon at Niagara Falls, and a trip to Nebraska aboard the new Union Pacific railroad. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B3, F2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1860-1879
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, writes to Horatio Collins King and John R. Howard, regretting that he will be unable to lecture for them as he "must make ready from a short visit to California." Envelope included.
Location: I-HartM-1980-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes six letters to George Lawrence on issues that include lists of specimens and other articles, inquiries on novel specimens, and travel updates. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F2
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes three letters to George Lawrence regarding the exchange of collections (primarily those of bird specimens) as well as his travels around New England. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F3
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes five letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses his attempt in encouraging Dr. Feuchtwanger to give his collection of minerals to the Smithsonian. Baird also asks Lawrence for some of his illustrations of...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F14
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes two letters to George Lawrence regarding travel plans and the weather. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F15
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes two short letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses travel plans and his intention to meet with him. Baird also confirms the receipt of the drawings and notebooks of Col. Grayson. Transcripts included. ...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F16
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
