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Lonely Hours. A Collection of Miscellaneous Songs and Poems
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0087
Abstract
This book of poetry and song was compiled by an unknown author in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1848. Pages 69 to 165 of the volume comprise a two-part epic poem entitled "Evanore: A Tale of the Brandywine."
Dates:
1848
Greenwatch Institute records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0716
Abstract
Greenwatch Institute was created in 1992 as the result of a legal settlement with Keystone Cogenerations Systems Inc., in which a trust fund was established to be used for projects benefitting the environment. Greenwatch Institute administers those funds. Delaware author and environmentalist Jerry Shields was chairman of Greenwatch Institute from its founding until his death in 1998. This collection largely represents his work for the Institute. The papers of Greenwatch Institute comprise...
Dates:
1977-2004; Majority of material found within 1991-1995
Letters to William Young
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0178
Abstract
The correspondence contained in this collection is addressed to William Young in regards to his papermaking business in Delaware. Notable letters are from the Treasury Department Revenue Office with orders for stationery. The shipping receipts give a good sense of the quantities of materials that William Young shipped during the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century.
Dates:
1794-1824