Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush prepares a questionnaire on the manufacture of silk for Connecticut to be included in a manual mandated by the House of Representatives.
Location: I-BeachW-1983-4
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1820-1839
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on September 27, 1826 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1820-1839
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes General Walter Jones to discussing the timing of "the monastery case." Taney notes that Jones should "consider the case as continued until June next."
Location: I-SpahrB-1953-20
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes six letters to John Reynolds on a variety of different legal and political matters, including the Presidential elections of 1828 and 1844, Buchanan's experience living in Russia as the US minister, and increasing sectional tensions. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Rev. Samuel B. How writes to Reverend Ashbel Green to settle his accounts and explain that he must leave the pastorate because his wife is sick. "[The] wretched state of Mrs. How’s health has induced [me] to believe that it is my duty to leave this Southern Country and accordingly I have...
Location: I-BeachW-1980-1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush acknowledges the receipt of two letters and states that he "took pleasure in receiving" E. H. Mills' correspondence.
Location: I-BeachW-1984-7
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes to Samuel D. Ingham, Esquire, discussing a conflict between him and General Jackson which Buchanan is to address in the Lancaster Journal. He expresses concern over "the preservation of [his] own character." He claims in a subsequent letter that the "Jackson papers...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Economics and Finance, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes Thomas Elder and discusses a number of issues in two letters, including the health of Judge Duncan, the 1829 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, cities that a transcontinental road would pass through, a trial of six Tennessee militia men sentenced to...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
John McLean, United States Postmaster, writes William Murphy, the Postmaster of Maysville, Kentucky, to remind him of the obligation to deliver letters on Sunday that "arrive on Saturday night." "Please conform to [this rule] and render the office as accommodating as possible to all persons...
Location: I-Purchase-1973-1
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes Joseph Gales and William Seaton to complain about being misquoted in a newspaper article. "I never expressed such an opinion" on imports, as Buchanan notes. Buchanan also asks them to publish a correction. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F8
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to Arthur Shaaff, an attorney in Georgia, to share news about his family as well as discus legal and political issues. Taney notes that his two daughters, along with Shaaff's friends, are in Georgetown for Rebecca Key's wedding. In addition,...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-40
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to Beal Randall of the Mutual Insurance Company of Baltimore regarding a settlement. Transcript included.
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-8
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1827-1828 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment,...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1820-1839
Richard Rush responds to John F. Watson's request for assistance in obtaining an "appointment as governor or superintendent of the Marine Assylum near Philadelphia." Rush explains that he talked to Secretary of the Navy Samuel L. Southard, who noted that it was likely "that a naval officer will...
Location: I-YoungH-1959-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Augustus Otto Hiester receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on September 15, 1828.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney's writes this interpretation of Charles Ridgely' will in regard to the "land bought of Henry Darnall." Taney provides his opinion on this matter at the request of General Ridgely, who had inherited the land in question from Charles Ridgely. Transcript...
Location: I-SpahrB-1961-2
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes Arthur Shaaff, an attorney in Georgia, to offer advice about seeking an office in President-Elect Andrew Jackson's administration. "While nobody can undertake to say what course Genl. Jackson will take," Taney notes that Jackson's "friends hope...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-40
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James King Davison, a member of the Class of 1829, receives this diploma as a member of the Belles Lettres Society in 1829.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1820-1839
The first portion of Hiester Muhlenberg's notebook while a student at Dickinson College consists of synopses of each book in Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian War."
Hiester Muhlenberg's notebook consists of synopses of each book in Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian...
Location: I-HarrisonB-1959-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine
Format: Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1820-1839
United States Treasury Secretary Richard Rush writes to Joseph B. Manning stating that he has forwarded Manning's letter and enclosed $30 to the Department of State, "to which the subject of patents belongs."
Location: I-BeachW-1974-4
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes a letter from Washington, DC, and discusses several political issues in Pennsylvania, including the 1829 Gubernatorial election. Buchanan describes Isaac Barnard, a possible candidate for governor, as "a high minded, independent honest man" who will never "...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F9
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes two letters to Senator Isaac D. Barnard to discuss political matters as well as console him for his defeat at the Harrisburg Convention. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General of Roger Brooke Taney writes to Secretary of the Navy John Branch and recommends Mr. William M. Wood for a surgeon's mate appointment in the U.S. Navy. Taney describes Wood as "a young man of excellent talents," even though Taney admits that he has "no personal...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-14
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney (Class of 1795) discusses President Andrew Jackson, Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham, and party politics.
Location: I-Friends-2000-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes interpretation of the will of A. Riddle of London. "Mr. Abercrombie is not entitled either to the legacy of £1000, nor to the share of the residence[?] bequeathed to his wife," as Taney concludes.
Location: I-SpahrB-1960-3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
