Box Multi 01

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Includes a copy of Dr. Howell’s remarks, the introduction to the degree, a biography of Wood, and his Doctor of Divinity.

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Includes two calling cards, a list of appointments, clippings, and four empty envelopes.

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"Would the Election of a Republican President Be Just Cause for Secession of the South?"

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Contains several addresses and compositions read before the Mount Vernon Society of Washington College. There are also some drafts of speeches. Joseph was Treasurer of the Society so there are some notes on debtors and a receipt for his session fee.

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Contains three letters from former President of Washington College Francis Waters regarding Burchinal’s career after graduation. There is also an undated letter from Maggie Waters.

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Regarding a position for Nathanial J. Meginniss[?], he is noted as having Southern politics and sympathies.

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Correspondents listed chronologically include: Louis F. Shepard; J. Gibson Cannon; Jason L. Cook; George W. Harris; Daniel Hannah; and E. J. L. There is also a letter from Burchinal to G. W. Vaudain.

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Letters regard the posting of a position for Principal to a school and a letter of recommendation from Dr. Jones, who was a professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural lab at the College of Maryland.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains Joseph Burchinal’s correspondence, course work, speeches and other materials during and after his education at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Included in his correspondence are two letters that discuss the beginning of the Civil War and mention soldiers in Chestertown, the other is on stationary with an image of Uncle Sam kicking Jeff Davis. There are also letters to two of Washington College’s presidents and Dr. Montgomery Jones. In Burchinal’s course...

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Many of the letters discuss mutual friends and news. As the Civil War continues the letters discuss the war including soldiers in Chestertown. One letter is on Pro-Union stationary with “The Flag of a New Confederacy.” Showing Uncle Sam kicking Jeff Davis, though both Joseph and Francis seem to have supported the Confederacy.