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Nellie Saunders letter
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0080
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a letter home written on the playbill for the Washington College Dramatic Club’s production of “A Full House” where Nellie played the role of Susie. The letter talks about the production and the dramatic club as well as other news.
Dates:
1929
Pearce family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0042
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains an account book kept by the Pearce family. James A. Pearce, Sr.'s correspondence with other politicians regarding slavery in Maryland and the lead up to the Civil War. James A. Pearce, Jr.’s lecture notebooks while at Princeton University, correspondence, and a scrapbook he kept of the 1896 presidential election.
Dates:
1802-1913
Peregrine Wroth papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0072
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains letter books, lectures, and essays kept by Peregrine Wroth. Many of the letter books have the name of his wife, Margaret Nicols, on the inside cover. There are several books of his lectures while teaching chemistry at Washington College as well as a scholarly publication of Wroth’s on Bilious Fever. After the death of his daughter Eugenia he created several biographies of her for various family members. He wrote numerous "Extracts from 'Recollections' of 'My Life'"...
Dates:
1823-1898
Philomathean Literary Society minutes
Collection
Identifier: MS-0096
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the minutes of the Philomathean Literary Society. There are also drafts of the Society’s constitution.
Dates:
1895-1900
Pieria Literary Society records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0098
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a constitution, invitation, and program from the Pieria Literary Society.
Dates:
1896-1908
Rev. Franklin Knight Honorary Degree letter
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0079
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...
Dates:
1857 August 6
Richard T. Earle, Jr. essay
Collection — Box: Multi 02
Identifier: MS-0017
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains an essay entitled “Were England and France Justifiable in Declaring War Against Russia?” Earle’s essay says the war was justified citing Russia’s treatment of Turkey and its continuous expansion.
Dates:
1856
Robert C. Thackery letter (transcript)
Collection — Box: Multi 05
Identifier: MS-0143
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains a transcript of a letter written by Robert C. Thackery to the editor of The Cecil Whig. It was published in the June 14, 1870 paper. The letter was written in Chestertown, while Thackery was a student at Washington College. In this letter, Thackery laments the fact that people on the Eastern Shore are not sending their children to Washington College, and implores them to do so.
Dates:
1870 June 14
Samuel Ringgold trigonometry notebook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0103
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a notebook belonging to Samuel Ringgold with various lessons including astronomy, navigation, trigonometry, and an essay on industry. There are many beautiful hand-drawn diagrams. There is faint writing on both covers one of which indicate he used it while attending Washington College, there are also various dates in different parts of the book, one cover has 1787, a flyleaf of multiple signatures has 1786, while a clear flyleaf mentions President Washington and...
Dates:
1786-1792
Samuel T. Rogers letter
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0047
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...
Dates:
1910 February 18
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