Statesman Richard Rush writes to an unspecified Colonel, requesting papers on behalf of the Treasury Department and returning works the Colonel has already sent.
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1820-1839
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June 20, 1829
Location: I-BeachW-1983-5
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
September 23, 1829
Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on September 23, 1829.
November 27, 1829
Diplomat and politician Richard Rush writes Colonel Thomas Aspinwall and requests several books on cottage architecture. Rush also describes his schedule before a trip to London.
Location: I-Friends-1976-6
Subject: Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
January 18 ; February 19, 1830
Representative James Buchanan writes two letters to Colonel Isaac Wayne and shares political news, explains why midshipmen cannot be appointed, as well as speculates on possible candidates for the 1832 Presidential election. The politicians that Buchanan mentions include incumbent President...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
January 25, 1830
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to lawyer Richard S. Coxe, explaining that in order to appear before the Maryland legislature to defend a client in a divorce case, Coxe must defer a decision about attending the Supreme Court for the case of General Van Ness.
Location: I-BonisteelR-1954-2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
February 10, 1830
Representative James Buchanan writes to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau of Philadelphia about Du Ponceau's earlier letter, which Buchanan had delivered to Ambrose Spencer, the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. Buchanan explains that "[Spencer] justly appreciates the services which you have...
Location: I-Friends-2006-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
June 7, 1830
Richard Rush writes to an unspecified Mr. Force requesting a few "Abroad and at Home" pamphlets. Rush also wanted to settle any outstanding debts with Force before he left Washington. Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-1976-7
Subject: Economics and Finance, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
September 5, 1830
Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland writes to Alexander Nisbet regarding his feelings for Nisbet's niece, Miss Alison McCoskry. " Almost at our very first meeting I found myself agitated by feelings that I never before had experienced," as Cleveland explains. Cleveland also expresses concern over...
Location: I-ClevelandR-1978-1
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
October 25, 1830
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to attorney Edward Lloyd and discusses his office should be impartial as well as the selection of his deputies. The Attorney General's office, as Taney argues, "is too intimately connected with the administration of justice... and nothing...
Location: I-SpahrB-1941-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
February 9, 1831
Thomas C. Hambly writes James Hamilton Jr. to express his opposition to a proposed railroad "running... from the River Susquehanna to [York] by any route above the Codoms creek." Transcript included.
Location: I-ValeM-1947-28
Subject: Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
February 12, 1831
Representative James Buchanan writes to Hugh Hamilton and regarding Hamilton's mistake in publishing Buchanan's letters in the New York Inquirer. Even though Hamilton "transposed the order of time in which they were written and omitted that portion of the letter in regard to myself...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F11
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
March 8, 1831
Diplomat Richard Rush writes to Colonel Thomas Aspinwall, American consul in London, requesting that he assist an American citizen holding property in London's Covent Garden neighborhood.
Location: I-Friends-1976-8
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
August 22, 1831
Acting Secretary of War Roger Brooke Taney (Class of 1795) writes to Robert Oliver saying that Michigan Territory Governor Lewis Cass, General Alexander Macomb, and "some others" will visit Baltimore over the weekend. Taney also confirms a dinner invitation from Oliver.
Location: I-AlbertS-1978-1
Subject: Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
October 17, 1831
United States Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes regarding the outcome of a dispute between the Bellona Gunpowder Company and the Susquehanna Railroad Company. Transcript Included.
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-8
Subject: Business and Industry, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
December 13, 1831
United States Attorney General Roger B. Taney writes to John Stuart Skinner and apologies for a recent error regarding a nomination.
Location: I-SpahrB-1950-7
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
May 2, 1832
John Reynolds writes to James Buchanan, the United States Minister to Russia, regarding various business matters that he will address while Buchanan is out of the country. "I fear you have had a rough and tedious passage and suffered from sea sickness though I indulge the hope that you are this...
Location: MC 1998.10, B4, F21
Subject: Business and Industry, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
October 13, 1832
James Buchanan writes to James Humes regarding the "unpleasant circumstances attending my departure" from the United States, Pennsylvania Governor George Wolf's re-election, and increasing sectional tensions. Buchanan also describes his experience living in St. Petersburg as the United States...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F12
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
October 29, 1832
Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to the Secretary of the Navy [Levi Woodbury] regarding "an act to extend the pension heretofore granted to the widows of persons killed or who died in the naval service."
Location: I-SpahrB-1960-2
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
November 4, 1832
Captain Jesse D. Elliot writes to Dickinson College trustee Isaac B. Parker regarding Elliot's belief that he expects to command the military expedition against South Carolina in the nullification crisis. Elliot also mentions the 1832 Presidential Election and hopes that General Andrew Jackson...
Location: I-SpahrB-1950-4
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
November 30, 1832
United States Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to an unknown recipient, possibly a colleague, and analyzing the case against Mrs. Davison regarding a bond and debt. Taney predicts the Court of Appeals will follow the ruling of "2 Har. & Gill." In addition, Taney apologizes for both...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-17
Subject: Economics and Finance, Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
December 11, 1832
United States Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to the members of an unspecified society, informing them that he will be unable to attend the funeral of Charles Caroll III. Caroll, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, died a month prior. Transcript included.
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-8
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
January 9, 1833
James Buchanan, the Minister to Russia, writes J. Randolph Clay with complaints about the cost of sending mail from the United States to Russia and offers diplomatic advice. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F13
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
January 19, [1833?]
John P. Durbin writes to C. A. Walborn regarding the return of a speech by Mr. Corwin "in pamphlet form" as well as congratulating Walborn on his new house. Durbin also discusses plans for an upcoming trip from Baltimore to Harrisburg.
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-3
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
January 27, 1833
United States Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney responds to a request to write a letter on behalf of a friend applying for a divorce. "When I was a member of the Senate," Taney writes, "I voted against all the applications for divorces...not only from the religious opinions I entertain, but...
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-8
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
March 2, 1833
James Buchanan, the United States Minister to Russia, asks Nathaniel Niles to send "my private letters immediately by Mail." Buchanan also provides an update on the Mission of General Mouravieff to the Pasha of Egypt. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F13
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
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