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Richard Peters letter to George Stevenson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0041
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1747 May 16

James C. Saltus letter and manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0102
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1862-1864

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Lieutenant Sydney I. Wailes letters to unidentified recipient

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0096
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1864 August 24-September 20

Christopher Ward letter to H. D. Trevillian

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0103
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1932 March 22

James H. Wilson letter to John C. Ropes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0087
Abstract

Handwritten letter from Major General James H. Wilson to military historian and lawyer John C. Ropes, acknowledging the book Ropes sent him about Waterloo.

Dates: 1893 March 23

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Letters (correspondence) 28
New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 16
New Castle County (Del.)--History--20th century 7
New Castle County (Del.) 6
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 5
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Correspondence 3
Maps (documents) 3
Black-and-white photographs 2
Business letters 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Invitations 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Newspapers 2
Obituaries 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Real property--Delaware--New Castle County--History--18th century 2
Real property--Delaware--New Castle County--History--19th century 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--18th century 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Accident reports 1
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Barbados 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Birthday cards 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Children 1
Christina River Basin (Del.) 1
Christmas cards 1
Churchmans Marsh (Del.) 1
Color photographs 1
Commonplace books 1
Community Life--Delaware--Newark--History--20th century 1
Conservation of natural resources--Delaware 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Dover (Del.) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Economic development 1
England--Description and travel 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
Fort Delaware (Del.) 1
France--Description and travel 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Germany--Description and travel 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
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Greeting cards 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Invoices 1
Italy--Description and travel 1
Lamborn Run (Del.) 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
 
Names
Bancroft, William P. (William Poole), 1835-1928 2
Coleman, Leighton, 1837-1907 2
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 2
Adams, Daniel J. 1
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
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Bancroft, John, 1774-1852 1
Bancroft, Joseph, 1803-1874 1
Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1767-1815 1
Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1799-1880 1
Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Biddle, Pere 1
Biddle, Pere--Correspondence 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Boggan, Patrick, approximately 1725-1817 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Coalition for Natural Stream Valleys 1
Creator unidentified 1
Crowninshield, Francis Boardman, 1869-1950 1
Delaware. Department of Transportation 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Alice, 1863-1937 1
Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926 1
Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 1
Du Pont, Sophie 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Delaware 1
Episcopal Divinity School 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Hall, Willard, 1780-1875 1
Hannum, Robert Marshall 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Humphrys, Leonard 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
Janvier, Julian Darragh, 1833-1899 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jones, Russel C. (Russel Cameron) 1
Kimball, E. L. 1
Kinsman, Frederick Joseph, 1868-1944 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Lee, Alfred, 1807-1887 1
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 1
McLane, Louis, 1786-1857 1
McLane, Louis, 1786-1857--Correspondence 1
Mifflin, Charles 1
Miller, Dorothy P. 1
Morgantown and Conestoga Valley Railroad Company 1
Morris, Israel W. (Israel Wistar), 1833-1909 1
Mosley, J. Brooke 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Parvin, Theophilus 1
Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 1
Peters, Richard, 1704-1776--Correspondence 1
Plank, D. Heber (David Heber), 1842-1906 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Saltus, James C. 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sierra Club. Delaware Chapter 1
Stevenson, George 1
Stevenson, George--Correspondence 1
Thomas, Charles, 1790-1848 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers 1
United States. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Wailes, Sydney I. 1
Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943 1
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