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Journal of Robert Capen

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0075
Abstract

This volume is a receipt book kept by the Boston, Massachusetts, shipping firm of Thompson and Gridley for the period 1758-1765 and is interspersed with the diary of Robert Capen. The diary was written in 1811 and 1812. The entries document the weather and wind direction as well as occurances in the town of Canton, Massachusetts. There is also a single account for Samuel Capen of Canton to Robert Capen, for the period 1810-1812.

Dates: 1758-1812

Georgina M. Cooper copybook and poetry scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0095
Abstract

This nineteenth-century copybook and scrapbook was kept by student (and later teacher) Georgina Maria Cooper of Hollandsville, Delaware. It contains pages of copied phrases completed when Cooper was in school, poetry clippings, copied lists of deaths and marriages in Kent County, Delaware, and a list of her students in 1871.

Dates: 1866-1900; Majority of material found within 1866-1871

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Diaries 2
Scrapbooks 2
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
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Canton (Mass.)--History--19th century 1
China--History--20th century 1
Clergy 1
Climatology--Observations--History--19th century 1
Coastwise shipping--Massachusetts--Boston--History--18th century 1
Cooking--History--19th century 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Education--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Families--United States--History--18th century 1
Families--United States--History--19th century 1
Families--United States--History--20th century 1
Financial Statements--History--18th century 1
Financial Statements--History--19th century 1
Financial records 1
Formulas, recipes, etc--History--19th century 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Greeting cards 1
Hatters 1
Hawaii--History--20th century 1
Hollandsville (Del.) 1
Invitations 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Microfilms 1
Military personnel 1
Missionaries 1
Missionaries--China--History--20th century 1
New York (State)--History--19th century 1
New York (State)--History--20th century 1
Pennsylvania--History--19th century 1
Pennsylvania--History--20th century 1
Photographs 1
Poems 1
Postcards 1
Publications (documents) 1
Publishers 1
Realia 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Research notes 1
Sermons 1
Sussex County (Del.) 1
Teachers 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations 1
United States--Religious life and customs--History--19th century 1
Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century 1
Women in agriculture--United States--History--19th century 1
Works of art 1
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Names
Capen, Robert 1
Capen, Samuel 1
Episcopal Church 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1