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Salmon Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, writes to Associate Justice Robert Cooper Grier (Class of 1812). Chase discusses a recent visit to Philadelphia and says he is glad to hear Grier's health has improved....
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-6
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
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Letter from Salmon Chase to Robert Grier
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes five letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses a collection of birds to be sent to the latter, Zeladon's studies in Central America and the West Indies,...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F4
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Oct. - Dec. 1869)
Carrie M. Thomson writes to Judge John Meredith Read about her family.
Location: I-Friends-1975-20
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Carrie Thomson to John Read
President Ulysses S. Grant accepts Associate Justice Robert Cooper Grier's (Class of 1812) resignation from the United States Supreme Court and thanks him for his service to the country. "In looking upon your long and honorable career in the...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-21
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Ulysses Grant to Robert Grier
Salmon Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, writes to Associate Justice Robert Cooper Grier (Class of 1812) regarding the death of Edwin M. Stanton. Chase informs Grier of a meeting to be held at his house and that he...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-6
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Letter from Salmon Chase to Robert Grier
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1869-1870 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: 1860-1879
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Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes four letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses the exchange of various specimens as well as funding for Sumichrast's explorations. Transcripts included. ...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F5
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Jan. - Mar. 1870)
Associates of United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier (Class of 1812) write to him to express their thanks and affection upon his resignation from the Court. Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Nelson, Nathan Clifford, Noah Haynes...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-6
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Supreme Court Justices to Robert Grier
Joe Belford (Class of 1871) writes to George, his friend from Dickinson College, about life as a student in Carlisle as well as a local fair. "There is a fair going on in town now," and as Belford notes, "I wish you were here and could go there a...
Location: I-CohenB-1973-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Joe Belford to George
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to George N. Lawrence regarding the Sumichrast Collection. "As the number of additional species is not so great as I was led to suppose," Baird warns Lawrence that...
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-13
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes four letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses the exchange of various specimens, the sale of a collection of meteorites, and the arrangement of meetings....
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F6
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (May - Jun. 1870)
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 9, 1870 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: 1860-1879
View Item: 1870 Commencement Program
George Lawrence drafts a letter to J. H. McIlvaine informing him about the collection of birds brought to Spencer Fullerton Baird from Venezuela and Panama, which the latter wishes to dispose of. Lawrence inquires if the Smithsonian Institution...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F20
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from George Lawrence to J. H. McIlvaine (Draft)
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes four letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses the exchange of specimens with the Vienna Museum and Smithsonian, and offers his sympathy for the loss of...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F7
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Jul. - Aug. 1870)
Samuel Miller (Class of 1874) writes to his brother, David Miller, about his room and his class schedule at Dickinson. While his "first impressions of life at Coll. were anything but pleasant," Miller explains that after some cleaning it now "...
Location: I-MillerE-1984-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Samuel Miller to David Miller
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes six letters to George Lawrence in which he inquires about the Directory for Brooklyn and describes Salvin's wish to send some of his specimens, hunting hawks and...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F8
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Oct. - Dec. 1870)
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes nine letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses the sending of small birds of the Grayson and Xantus Collections and Mexico to Lawrence, as well as the...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F9
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Jan. - Mar. 1871)
George Lawrence writes six letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, regarding the exchange and naming of various bird specimens. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F21
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from George Lawrence to Spencer Baird (Drafts)
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries Spencer F. Baird writes O. M. Dorman about specimens of fish that Dorman sends from Norfolk, Virginia. "I shall be glad to have these transmissions continued" and, as Baird explains, "I hope the system of...
Location: I-Purchase-1955-20
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to O. Dorman
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes nine letters to George Lawrence in which he discusses Mr. Ridgeway's analysis and classification of the geographical distribution of fish specimen variations,...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F10
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Apr. - Jun. 1871)
George Durbin Chenoweth, a member of the Class of 1868, receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 8, 1871.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - George Chenoweth
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to ornithologist Winfrid A. Stearns: "it gives me pleasure to authorize any use you desire of the material published in my work on the Birds of N. America."
Location: I-Friends-1989-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes five letters to George Lawrence in which he invites Lawrence to Edgartown for fishing and dredging and discusses the specimens of Sclater and Salvin, among others...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F11
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Jul. - Sept. 1871)
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, writes four letters to George Lawrence on issues that include finding a taxidermist for collection mounting as well as the exchange of specimens. Transcripts included...
Location: MC 2000.11, B1, F12
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letters from Spencer Baird to George Lawrence (Oct. - Dec. 1871)
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullerton Baird writes to ornithologist Winfrid A. Stearns regarding the classification of birds. Baird also states that he will not have the time to edit Stearns's manuscript, but recommends Dr....
Location: I-Friends-1989-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
View Item: Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns