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Selected from various authors: Chosen paragraphs, agreeable to the fancy of the compiler

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0005
Abstract

This single bound volume was compiled by Dr. Samuel Henry Black between 1810 and 1844, containing transcribed quotations, prose, and poetry; agricultural memorandums (1815); and an open letter in which he declined to run for the Delaware General Assembly (1821).

Dates: 1810-1844

Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0021
Abstract

These account books kept by scientist Charles L. Penny record expenses incurred by Delaware College’s Agricultural Experiment Station between 1892 and 1916. The volumes also include information on experiments conducted at the station.

Dates: 1892 July 23-1916 December 9

Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs farm account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0010
Abstract

This farm account book was kept by Dr. Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1792 and 1869.

Dates: 1792-1800, 1847-1869

Chauncey P. Holcomb farm diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0166
Abstract

This volume is a farm diary kept by Chauncey P. Holcomb of New Castle County, Delaware, between 1843 and 1850. Holcomb recorded information related to his crops and livestock, as well as references to the weather, his health, and his involvement in agricultural reform.

Dates: 1843-1850

Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0168
Abstract The Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections consists of approximately 116 pages of handwritten commentary and reflection relating to the life of Delaware Quaker and farmer Alfred I. Paxson. The first eighty-seven pages of the volume consist of Paxson's autobiography and, later, diary entries. The final twenty-nine pages of the volume, spanning from pages 100 through 129 of the numbered journal, contain several of Paxson's "Reflections and Meditations" on topics such as death,...
Dates: 1888-1894

Samuel M. Talley trigonometry notebook and account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0112
Abstract

This trigonometry and surveying notebook belonged to Samuel M. Talley, who lived in Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware, in the nineteenth century. The notebook features mathematical problems and solutions related to the principles of trigonometry and the surveying of land. The latter part of the volume contains an account book listing wages due for farm labor.

Dates: 1833-1863; Majority of material found within 1833-1834

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Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 1
Black, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1782-1827 1
Delaware College 1
Evans, Thomas, -1796 1
Holcomb, Chauncey P., 1803-1855 1