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Richard Peters letter to George Stevenson
Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania, Richard Peters, wrote this one-page handwritten and signed letter to Dover surveyor, George Stevenson, requesting a survey of land in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, for Leonard Humphrys, on May 16, 1747. Includes watermark.
James C. Saltus letter and manuscript
Confederate Lieutenant James C. Saltus's handwritten manuscript describing his Civil War experience from April-June 1864. The manuscript was written while Saltus was a prisoner of war at Division 22 Officers Barracks, Fort Delaware, on October 14, 1864. Also included is a letter from Saltus to his niece on her letter writing and family matters, sent while he was at Fort Delaware.
Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers
Lieutenant Sydney I. Wailes letters to unidentified recipient
Two handwritten letters from Lieutenant Sydney I. Wailes, who served at Fort Delaware during the Civil War, to his friends, describing the day to day activities at the Fort. Typed transcripts of the letters are available in the collection file.
Christopher Ward letter to H. D. Trevillian
Reply to H. D. Trevillian's letter requesting Delaware author Christopher Ward's autograph on his copy of The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware.
James H. Wilson letter to John C. Ropes
Handwritten letter from Major General James H. Wilson to military historian and lawyer John C. Ropes, acknowledging the book Ropes sent him about Waterloo.