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James Martin, a college student during the fall of 1792, records verbatim a series of 65 lectures on literary criticism as delivered by Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson College.
Manuscript of 25 lectures on languages (beginning Aug. 16, [1792?], p. 1-127) and 65 lectures on...
Location: SC-Vault Nisbet 18
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1780-1799
William Irvine, a member of the Dickinson College Board of Trustees, writes to John Nicholson regarding a letter from an unspecified Mrs. Spring. Transcript included.
Location: I-Purchase-1964-11
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Dickinson College President Charles Nisbet writes to Michael Taney in which he discusses the importance of parental guidance in education and praises the conduct of his son, Roger Brooke Taney. Roger Taney is a member of the class of 1795. Transcript included.
Location: RG 5/1 - 6.1.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson writes to William Short, the US minister to the Netherlands, with instructions regarding his duties as treaty commissioner to Spain. "It is hoped that in consequence of my former letter, you will have made the necessary arrangements for an immediate departure...
Location: I-SpahrB-1953-13
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Wilson receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on May 5, 1792.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Montgomery writes to General Anthony Wayne, complimenting Wayne's son on his conduct and oratory skills. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-1959-12
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Charles Nisbet writes a seven letters to William Young from 1792 to 1793 that mostly focus on Nisbet’s transactions with Young as a printer and book dealer. Nisbet discusses various works with religious and political themes, such as Augustus Toplady's History of Calvinism and Thomas...
Location: MC 2001.5, B1, F5-6
Subject: Business and Industry, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Thomas Smith, a Pennsylvania Judge, writes to Alexander James Dallas, the Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, about the prosecution Colonel John Montgomery's son. "The prosecution is truly disagreable to me, as besides the long acquaintance and mutual regard between me and the Defendants...
Location: I-DallettF-1973-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Dr. Joseph Priestley writes to Rev. John Edwards and discusses their recent publications as well as a publication that they are both working on. "I have read 40 pages of your fourth no., and am surprised that any person should object to its publication," as Priestley explains. Transcript...
Location: MC 1998.1, B1, F11
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Charles Nisbet writes to bookseller William Young regarding a packet from an unspecified Mr. Wilson with two letters for Europe. Nisbet also asks for a paper, discusses Carlisle weather, and speculates about the French Revolution.
Location: I-MHS-1987-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Dickinson College President Charles Nisbet writes to Dr. Jonathan Ingham of Bucks County, Pennsylvania with reflections on education, politics, international affairs, as well as other contemporary American issues. Transcript included.
Location: O-SpahrB-1963-1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Education, International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Hamilton writes to John Nichols to settle some confusion about a certificate for $99 that is to be made payable to Hannah Rose. Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-1975-12
Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson writes a love letter to Miss Hannah Grey and explains that he will not be able to visit her in Boston as he had hoped. Wilson asks her to "authorize me to think and call you mine." Three months after Wilson sends this letter, James Wilson and Hannah Grey are married. Transcript...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-16
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Sarah Vaughan writes to Sarah Franklin Bache, daughter of Benjamin Franklin, introducing her to Mrs. Joseph Priestley and hoping that she will "be so kind when opportunity offers to introduce her to some of [Bache's] friends..."
Location: I-Original-1793-2
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Wilson addresses his students in Southampton, Bucks County, stressing the importance of a varied education, living an active life, and maintaining upright moral conduct.
James Wilson writes James Meredith to request that his salary be paid to his son, William Wilson, who, as noted by Meredith's comments on the back, has power of attorney. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-17
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
William Kirkpatrick's ticket for Benjamin Rush's "Lectures upon the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical Cases" at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1794.
Location: I-Original-1794-2
Subject: Health and Medicine
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1780-1799
Dickinson President Charles Nisbet writes six letters to William Young from 1794 to 1795 that focus mostly on international affairs and political issues. Nisbet expresses worry over potential military conflict between the United States and Great Britain, and reflects upon the French Revolution...
Location: MC 2001.5, B1, F7-8
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Benjamin Rush writes and signs this legal document, which transfers a deed to Joseph Priestley, Jr. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1794-3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
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
Samuel Vaughan writes to Rev. Dr. John Andrews and introduces Joseph Priestley, who is seeking asylum in the United States. Vaughan explains that Priestley is "now driven to seek an asylum in your rising Empire."
Location: MC 1998.1, B2, F8
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
After James Wilson sells land in Pennsylvania (tract no. 5055) to Dr. Benjamin Rush on April 19, 1794, Dr. Rush sells that property to a Richard Stockton of New Jersey on May 28, 1794. John C. Otto, one of the witnesses to the transaction in 1794, later confirms on October 23, 1830 that "he was...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-13
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson sends this note to Thomas Fitzsimons for a sum of $4500.
Location: I-SpahrB-1970-3
Subject: Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
Francis Mowing Jr. sells James Wilson 400 acres of land in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-48
Subject: Land and Real Estate
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
Theologian and scholar Joseph Priestley writes to his friend Theophilus Lindsey. Priestley discusses his recent move to Northumberland, Pennsylvania, trouble with the mail, the local climate, the prospect for building, his work, the French Revolution, and the cause of Unitarianism. Transcript...
Location: I-BeachW-undated-1
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
