Pennsylvania Representative Andrew Gregg Curtin (Class of 1837) writes attorney James Pollock and proposes a meeting in Philadelphia.
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1880-1899
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October 15, 1883
Location: I-BeachW-1974-6
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
April 17, 1884
Horatio King writes former Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks to welcomes him home from a trip abroad and requests that he read the enclosed "Centennial" brochure. King looks forward to Hendricks's response.
Location: I-Purchase-1953-4
Subject: Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
April 25, 1884
Civil War General William Hemsley Emory writes to Horatio Collins King, accepting the latter's invitation to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, so long as "the gout which is very capricious and wayword, is not on [him]..."
Location: I-BeachW-1975-5
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
April 26, 1884
Civil War General Francis Fessenden writes to Horatio Collins King, declining the latter's invitation to attend the reunion of the Army of the Potomac in Brooklyn.
Location: I-BeachW-1975-6
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
September 19, 1884
Nahum Capen writes to Horatio King to decline an invitation and to discuss the philosophy of dreams. Capen was postmaster of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1857 to 1861 while King served as Assistant Postmaster General from 1854 to 1861 and as Postmaster General from February 12, 1861 to March 7,...
Location: I-Purchase-1964-3
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
September 30, 1884
Attorney Horatio King writes to an unspecified recipient in West Newton, Massachusetts, endorsing the candidacy of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks in the 1884 Presidential election.
Location: I-BeachW-1976-2
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
November 25, 1884
S. J. Mills, who works in the Osage Agency of the United States Indian Service, writes to Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew about the return of a blind Indian and provides an update on the progress of new facilities for Native Americans.
Location: I-Friends-1973-4
Subject: Native Americans
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
1885
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1884-1885 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: 1880-1899
circa 1885
Hiester H. Muhlenberg writes to his wife, Catharine, with instructions on funeral arrangements in the event of his death.
Location: I-Friends-2013-2
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
April 4, 1885
Horatio King writes John Cunningham telling him he put the sketches he received in his scrapbook. King gives corrections on Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson's resignation in January 1861 over the sailing of the Star of the West to supply Fort Sumter, on Jefferson Davis's age, on...
Location: I-BeachW-1985-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
April 10, 1885
Civil War General Romeyn Beck Ayres writes to Horatio Collins King, acknowledging the latter's invitation to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in Baltimore.
Location: I-BeachW-1975-2
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 10, 1885
Andrew Curtin writes to John Cadwalader, recommending J.H. Hahn for a job. Curtin is also planning to come to Philadelphia later in the week.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 24, 1885
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) delivers this address at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College on June 24, 1885.
Location: MC 2000.1, B251, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
August 17, 1885
Andrew Gregg Curtin writes to William H. Rauch, offering his assistance in response to Rauch's request for help with gaining an appointment.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
August 29, 1885
Andrew Gregg Curtin writes to John Cadwalader in Philadelphia, recommending an unspecified Colonel Guss for a job.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
September 2, 1885
James Noon to writes Andrew Gregg Curtin asking for a recommendation for a position at the custom house in Philadelphia as either "a watchman or messenger." On the reverse Curtin writes to John Cadwalader, endorsing Noon.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
September 4, 1885
David F. Fortney writes to Samuel J. Randall, recommending Patrick P. Louchey for a position at the customs house in Philadelphia. On the reverse, Andrew Gregg Curtin writes to Randall recommending Mr. Louchey as well.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
1886
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1885-1886 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: 1880-1899
June 7, 1886
C. C. McLean writes to Andrew Gregg Curtin about his father, Col. G. P. McLean. McLean asks Curtin to recommend the Colonel for a position in a warehouse in Philadelphia.
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 24, 1886
John M. Correll prepared this oration, entitled “Prohibition ," for the commencement ceremonies held June 24, 1886. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1886-C824p
Subject: Education, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
June 29, 1886
This receipt, signed by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird, documents the Institution's acceptance of "'The 'Medicine Man'; or, Indian and Eskimo National of Medicine" from Dr. Robert Bell, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.
June 29, 1886
This receipt, signed by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird, documents the Institution's acceptance of "The Mineral Resources of the Hudson's Bay Territories" and "The Forests of Canada" from Dr. Robert Bell, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.
July 8, 1886
C.C. McLean writes to Andrew Curtin regarding his father, Col. G.P. McLean. McLean again asks that Curtin refer the Colonel for a position in Philadelphia. On the reverse, Curtin writes a recommendation to John Cadwalader: "I remember Col. McLean well as a useful soldier and recollect the...
Location: I-Original-1885-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
October 14, 1886
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes several months after her husband's, Calvin Ellis Stowe, death and declines Susie Howard's invitation for a visit Stowe also shares other family news.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
November 3, 1886
Rev. Edward Young Buchanan writes to his friend Rev. Clement Moore Butler. Buchanan mentions one of his brothers, who Butler is growing more fond of: "time and the subsidence of party spirit...have begun to do him justice."
Location: I-Friends-1986-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
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