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Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958

Chester Holcombe letter to Mr. David

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0729
Abstract

Autograph and signed letter from Chester Holcombe to Mr. David, sent from Newark, Delaware, dated February 8, 1901. On the verso is a letter to a Mr. Southgate from "WY D."

Dates: 1901 February 8

John C. Hull letters to John Thomson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0149
Abstract

This group of twenty-four lengthy autograph letters, 1825-1845, from John C. Hull at various locations in Maryland, (West) Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, are addressed to his father-in-law John Thomson in Newark, Delaware, and are full of business and family news. (Three letters from Jane Thomson Hull to her father are also included in this small collection.)

Dates: 1825-1845

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0130
Abstract The Lewis family papers consist of three linear feet of material related to this Newark, Delaware, farming family, who also owned property in Little Creek Hundred in Kent County, Delaware. Material in the collection dates largely from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Members of the family were farmers and large landholders who maintained business relations with many prominent citizens of early Newark, such as George Platt, Samuel Donnell, James T. Maxwell, and Eri Haines. The collection...
Dates: 1696-1915; Majority of material found within 1791-1874

Horacio D. Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0732
Abstract

The Horacio D. Lewis papers consist of Dr. Lewis’ letters, articles, and publications related to his personal and civic involvement and recognition of activities associated with the civil rights of the Latino and African-American communities in Delaware and the desegregation of Delaware’s public schools.

Dates: 1960-2003

George W. and Pauline Murray, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0702
Abstract This collection documents the lives of Newark, Delaware, residents George W. Murray, Jr., and Pauline E. Murray during World War II. The collection is small, yet it gives a glimpse of both military service and the homefront experiences of the young married couple during war. Included are handwritten correspondence exchanged by the married couple while George Murray was stationed at Army Air Force bases on the continental United States and in Europe, illustrating life both at home and abroad...
Dates: 1939-1946

Wilson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0303
Abstract

The papers of the Wilson family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newark, Delaware, consist of 1.35 linear feet of material relating to four generations of direct descendents of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Elm’s Farm, near Liverpool, England.

Dates: 1684-1954; Majority of material found within 1830-1897

George Wolkind papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0697
Abstract

The George Wolkind papers document the involvement of native Delaware activist George Wolkind (born 1945) in the Newark and Wilmington, Delaware, counterculture and music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1966-2011

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Holcombe, Chester, 1844-1912 1
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Hull, John C., 1787-1872 1
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Lewis, Horacio D. 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
McDowell, Harris B. (Harris Brown), 1906-1988 1
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Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Murray, George W., 1920-2010 1
Murray, Pauline E., 1919-1997 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Nobility Silver Company 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Sparkman, John, 1899-1985 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Thomson, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1808-1874 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
University of Delaware--History--19th century 1
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University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
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