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Notes to

"Horatio Collins King's 'Journal of My College Life, Comprising love, foolishness and the like'"


1Horatio Collins King, "Journal Of My College Life: Comprising love, foolishness and the like," King Collection, Box 2, Folder 16, Department of Special Collections, Dickinson College Library, Carlisle, Pa.

2"The Late General Horatio C. King," unidentified newspaper clipping (November 1918), King Collection, Box 6, Folder 3; "Gen. Horatio Collins King," edited draft for National Cyclopedia of American Biography, undated, ibid., Box 4, Folder 2; Horatio Collins King, Biographical Notes for The Cyclopedia of American Biography (January 30, 1916), ibid., Box 6, Folder 8; "General King 80 Years Old," clipping from Brooklyn Times (December 22, 1917), ibid., Box 6, Folder 3; "Horatio C. King," American Art Journal, XXXIII, no. 20 (September 11, 1880), 305-306.

3"Gen. Horatio King Describes Warfare in Sixty-Four," clipping from New York Evening Sun (June 18, 1916), King Collection, Box 6, Folder 3; "General Horatio C. King at Five Forks,"ibid., Box 4, Folder 2; Horatio C. King Medal of Honor Certificate (May 31, 1916), ibid., Box 6, Folder 8; Stewart Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Civil War (New York, 1988) 22, 179, 301-302; George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record, Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa., 1905), 176-177.

4Horatio C. King, "Recollections," n.d., King Collection, Box 4, Folder 2, pp. 6-7.

5King, "Journal Of College Life," 387.

6King, "Recollections," 6-7.

7"Horatio C. King," Am. Art J., XXXIII, no. 20 (September 11, 1880), 305-306; King, Biographical Notes for Cyclopedia; "The Late General Horatio C. King," unidentified newspaper clipping (November 1918); Reed, Alumni Record, 176-177; "Gen. King," edited draft for National Cyclopedia.

8Manuscripts of many of King's speeches, songs, and poems are in the King Collection, Box 4. [Horatio C. King], Souvenir (n.p., n.d.); King, Employment Necessary to Happiness: A Poem . . . (Portland, Me., 1862); King, History of Dickinson College (New York, 1897); King, An Account of the Visit of the Thirteenth Regiment, N.G.,S.N.Y., to Montreal Canada (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1879). Copies of each of these publications may be found in the Department of Special Collections, Dickinson College Library.

9"The Late General Horatio C. King," unidentified newspaper clipping (November 1918); Newell Dwight Hillis, Eulogy for Horatio Collins King, November 17, 1918, King Collection, Box 3, Folder 10; "General King 80 Years Old," clipping from Brooklyn Times (December 22, 1917).

10Charles Coleman Sellers, Dickinson College: A History (Middletown, Conn., 1973), 234, 240-241, 454; Herman Merrills Johnson, Endowment of Dickinson College: Argument Exhibiting the Basis of a Plan, Feb. 18, 1852, Pamphlets, XLVI, no. 21, Department of Special Collections, Dickinson College; Horatio Collins King, "College Reminiscences, by a 'Boy' of '58," The Dickinsonian, I, no. 5 (Feb. 4, 1873), 37; King, History of Dickinson College, 21.

11King, "Journal of My College Life," 305, 329; Catalogue of Dickinson College for the Academic Year MDCCCVII-VII (1857-1858) (Carlisle, Pa., 1857), 23.

12Sellers, Dickinson College, 242, 247; Horatio C. King, "College Reminiscences," The Dickinsonian, X, no. 2 (Nov. 1882), 17; King, "College Reminiscences by a 'Boy' of '58," ibid., I, no. 5 (February 4, 1873), 37.

13Horatio Collins King, "Mother Dickinson," The Dickinsonian, IV, no.1 (October 4, 1875), 5. Collins was graduated by Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and by Wesleyan University in 1837. Next, as mentioned above, he gained experience as the president, treasurer and Professor of Natural Science at Emory and Henry College in Virginia. He left Dickinson in 1860 to become president of State Female College, Memphis, Tennessee (King, History of Dickinson College, 14, 19; Sellers, Dickinson College, 234).

14King, "Journal of My College Life," 20-21.

15Ibid., 147, 150, 229, 326, 328, 329, 351, 383; King, "College Reminiscences," The Dickinsonian, X, no. 2 (Nov. 1882), 18.

16King, "Journal of My College Life," 71, 145, 377, 383.

17Ibid., 3, 6-7, 11, 13, 19, 321, 328, 385, 393, and passim; Sellers, Dickinson College, 243; Kelly Warlow, "Of Love and Foolishness," Dickinson Magazine, LXI, no. 2 (May 1984), 11-14.

18Sellers, Dickinson College, 232, 244-245; King, "Journal of My College Life," 335-337; Horatio C. King, "The Inquest Adjourned," The Dickinsonian (Apr. 6, 1875), 73-74.

19King, "Journal of My College Life,"135, 147, 150, 151, 377, 511; Horatio C. King, "Reminiscences," íbid., IX, no. 7 (Apr. 1882), 16.

20Sellers, Dickinson College, 246-247; King, "College Reminiscences," The Dickinsonian, X, no. 2 (Nov. 1882), 18; King, "Journal of My College Life," 71-72, 145, 241.

21King, "College Reminiscences," The Dickinsonian, X, no. 2 (Nov. 1882), 17.

22Ibid., 244, 245, 309; Horatio C. King, "Commencement in 1858," The Microcosm, 1916 (Columbus, Oh., [1916]), 189-192; Sellers, Dickinson College, 248.

23Sellers, Dickinson College, 249; King, "Journal of My College Life," 249. On the development of fraternities on American campuses during this period, and the battle between faculty and students over their existence, see Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (New York, 1987), 23-55.

24Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), 36.

25King, "Journal of My College Life," 143-178.

26Ibid., 377.

27Ibid., 575.

28Ibid., 143-178.