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Julia Clark letter from Clara
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0088
Abstract
Letter from "Clara" to her friend, Julia Clark, mainly involving a discussion of Christmas, gifts, and a lost Christmas package from Clara to Ms. Clark.
Dates:
1891 February 3
Letters written during a South American cruise
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0460
Abstract
This collection consists of one letterbook containing ten long letters from an anonymous Philadelphian to his friend, Ned, written between 1826-1827. The author, a crew member on the frigate Brandywine, vividly and poetically describes life on board the ship and ashore in South America.
Dates:
1826-1827, 1832
Homer C. Wiggins collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0345
Abstract
The Homer C. Wiggins Collection concerns the story of juvenile criminal and escaped convict Homer C. Wiggins, who was killed in 1913 by Wilmington, Delaware, police.
Dates:
1913, 1915, 1943