Item 22c: Letter from G[eorge]. M. Dallas to Harry Wright, 1863 February 16
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 22c
Dates
- Created: 1863 February 16
Creator
- Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
5 in. x 4 7/16 in.
Type of Material:
Letter
Description:
This is a letter from George Mifflin Dallas to Harry Wright on February 16, 1863. This letter agrees to a request that is unknown from a previous letter sent to Dallas from Wright. Dallas wrote this letter a year before passing away. The creator of this letter, George Dallas, was born in Pennsylvania in 1792. He is best known for serving as vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Dallas was a mayor in Philadelphia, U.S. minister to the United Kingdom, and was even elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Transcription:
Sir,
Agreeably to the wish expressed in your note, postmarked of the 16 inst.
I am respectfully yours.
G. M. Dallas.
17 Feb. ‘63.
To
Mr. Harry Wright.
Creator
- Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu