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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....
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F8
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
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Letter from James Buchanan to Joseph Gales and William Seaton
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...
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
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to Arthur Shaaff
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
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to Beal Randall
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...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Catalogue of the Officers & Students of Dickinson College, 1827-28
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...
Location: I-YoungH-1959-1
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Richard Rush to John F. Watson
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
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Augustus Hiester
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...
Location: I-SpahrB-1961-2
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Legal Opinion of Roger B. Taney on Charles Ridgely's Will
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...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-40
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to Arthur Shaaff
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...
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
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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
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
View Item: Letter from Richard Rush to Joseph Manning
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...
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...
Location: I-SpahrB-1965-14
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to John Branch
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...
Location: I-SpahrB-1960-3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: I-SpahrB-1960-3.pdf
Statesman Richard Rush writes to an unspecified Colonel, requesting papers on behalf of the Treasury Department and returning works the Colonel has already sent.
Location: I-BeachW-1983-5
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Charles Francis Himes receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on September 23, 1829.
Location: OC 2000.1, F3
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Charles Himes
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
View Item: Letter from Richard Rush to Thomas Aspinwall
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...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letters from James Buchanan to Isaac Wayne
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...
Location: I-BonisteelR-1954-2
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to Richard Coxe
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]...
Location: I-Friends-2006-3
Subject: Business and Industry, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
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
View Item: Letter from Richard Rush to Mr. Force
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...
Location: I-ClevelandR-1978-1
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Charles Cleveland to Alexander Nisbet
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...
Location: I-SpahrB-1941-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
View Item: Letter from Roger B. Taney to Edward Lloyd (Draft)