Box Multi 03

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This collection contains a diary kept by James Roy Micou for the year 1885. During this time Micou lived in Petersburg, Virginia and married Catherine Roberta Morrison. The diary was commercially produced, The Emerson Birthday Book: Illustrated.

Scope and Content Note This collection contains a report card, three letters, a photostat of his diploma from Washington College, and an image of the original college building. Two letters from President James Cain, from 1908, reference the 1856 report card for John T. Parker, its need for repair, and updating Parker's graduation information in the next course catalog. There is a 1913 letter and supplement from James A. Pearce, who attended at the same time as Parker, in his capacity as President of the Board of...

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This collection contains typescripts of two speeches given during commencements. The first was on August 19, 1848 when Perkins was a junior, the topic was Poland. The second speech was during his graduation on August 18, 1849, it addresses the Board, students, and faculty and talks about the pursuit of education.

Scope and Content Note This collection contains a letter from Samuel T. Rogers of Bridgeport Connecticut to L. Wethered Barroll dated February 18, 1910. Barroll befriended Rogers while studying at Yale. Barroll was a Chestertown native and Rogers served as professor and Vice President of Washington College. The letter talks of Rogers health and goes on to discuss the issues of tariffs as they relate to politics of the time, this is shortly after the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. A transcript of the letter is...

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This collection contains a notebook kept by Charles Smith started April 3, 1783 while a student at Washington College, Chestertown, MD. It is entitled “Plane Trigonometry and the application of it to the taking of Height and Distances: Also Surveying and the Division of Lands and also the Laying out of New Lands.” Included among the examples is a problem based on the Siege of York.

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This collection contains an 1898 report card for Marion deKalb Smith, Jr. while at Washington College. There are also two copies of Smith’s biography published through the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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This collection contains eight autographs from 1878: poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Sherwood Stratton, also known as General Tom Thumb; poet Oliver Wendell Holmes; President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy; author Mark Twain; poet William Cullen Bryant; caricaturist Thomas Nast, whose signature includes a sketch of the artist; and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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This collection contains a letter from Joseph R. Wickes to Miss Elizabeth Nicholson a teacher at a girl’s school in the home of Gen. Ringgold in Hagerstown, Maryland, dated January 26, 1829. The letter appears to concern legal matters particularly Miss Nicholson’s statement.

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This collection contains a letter to the Orphans Court of Cecil County, Maryland recommending George R. Cather for placement as a student to Washington College. The letter is signed by seven individuals including Robert Cather. George R. appears in the 1854-1855 catalog’s list of students at Washington College. Due to two fires at the College his exact graduation date is unknown, but presumably 1858.

Scope and Contents Note This collection contains a letter from Peregrine Wroth to Franklin L. Knight announcing that the Board of Visitors & Governors of Washington College has unanimously conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity on Knight. The letter also mentions that the college does not give many honorary degrees, and this should speak highly to Franklin Knight’s accomplishments. The Honorary Degree was awarded at the August commencement in 1857. Peregrine Wroth was a professor of chemistry and served as...