Letter from James Buchanan to H. B. Swarr asking for a drawing of the court room in Lancaster with exact dimensions, location of bench and bar, and number of spectators who could be accommodated to help him design a new one in Baltimore, for which he is “personally responsible.” With envelope. Washington.
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
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Accession Number
JBMS1996.001
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JBFP Part 1, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 91
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Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
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Bound with : Newspaper history of Carlisle and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Charles H. Leeds ; War history : operations of the Union Cavalry on the peninsula, in which some Cumberland County soldiers took part / by William E. Miller ; Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation / by Thomas Sharp ; New Castle in a new world / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : agricultural society in its infancy / by Helen Tritt ; John Price Durbin : first Methodist president of Dickinson College, Carlisle / by O. B. Super ; Local history : the York, Dillsburg and Greencastle Railroad / by Quitman P. Ahl ; Some Cumberland County physicians of forty years ago / by Israel H. Bentz ; Historical : the study of the Bible, the basics of the Declaration of Independence and the civil and religious liberty provided for in the Constitution of the United States/ by Richard W. Woods ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon; Local history : events in the vicinity of Philadelphia participated in by the Scotch Irish in the latter part ofthe year 1777, also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in French and Indian War, 1755 / by Thomas Sharp ; Forty years in the wilderness : a sermon delivered in the second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania on his fortieth anniversary, January 3, 1909 / by George Norcross ; In memoriam : Charles Lytle Lamberton / by James M. Lamberton ; White man's way : illustrated talks on scientific subjects to "Indian Chiefs" on their visits to the Carlisle Indian School / by Charles F. Himes; Discovery of coal in northeastern Pennsylvania and life in the mining region / by Emeline D. T. Bedford ; St. Clair's defeat / by Margaret Fleming Murray ; Hon. Frederick Watts / by I. Thornton Osmond ; Civil war times in Carlisle / by Lenore Embick Flower ; annual report to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa...[1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1910] : Report of the president to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pennsylvania...[1911, 1912, 1915-1917, 1919] ; Local history: the Pennsylvania Archives as they apply to Cumberland County / by James Evelyn Pilcher.
Report of the committee having in charge the marking of the site of the Postlethwaite Tavern where the first Courts of Justice in Lancaster County were held
