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Henry Clay presentation items

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0154
Abstract This collection contains presentation memorabilia related to Henry Clay, American Statesman, given to Henry Clay Reed, University of Delaware professor and historian, by Henry Clay Conrad, historian and State Archivist of Delaware. Items include two copies of engravings of Henry Clay, a silk ribbon commemorating Clay, and a presentation letter (1929) from Conrad to Reed. Reed had worked for Conrad at the Delaware State Archives. In the letter, Henry Clay Conrad explains that he is sending...
Dates: circa 1840, 1929

John M. Clayton letter to Mr. Titcomb

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0155
Abstract

One letter from John M. Clayton, a lawyer, politician and Secretary of State from Delaware, to Mr. Titcomb. The letter asks Titcomb to send patient office reports to an unnamed individual, with instructions on how to frank the package on Clayton's behalf.

Dates: 1855 October 26

John M. Clayton letter to Mr. Towers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0073
Abstract

Short handwritten letter from the United States senator from Delaware, John M. Clayton, to printer "Mr. Towers," requesting a set of proofs be sent to him immediately.

Dates: 1848 July 12

John Middleton Clayton letter to Crawford

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0007
Abstract

Handwritten letter from U.S. Senator John Middleton Clayton (Whig-Delaware), requesting a violin bow from Crawford, along with a brief reference to politics in Delaware.

Dates: 1854 October 19

John Middleton Clayton letter to William M. Whiting Boardman

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0006
Abstract

One handwritten letter from Senator John Middleton Clayton (Whig-Delaware) to W. M. Boardman, detailing a bit of Clayton's personal history as well as his reasons for becoming interested in politics. Also included is a typed transcription of Clayton's letter.

Dates: 1830 July 7

Letters to Lucy Clifford

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0467
Abstract

Eight etters written to English children's writer, novelist, and dramatist Lucy Lane Clifford from several English literary figures from 1886-1890: W. F. Pollock, C. T. Newton, James Russell Lowell, James Joseph Sylvester, Joseph Cotter Morison, J. Herbert Stack, E. Ray Lankester, and one unidentified sender.

Dates: 1886-1890

Elizabeth Coatsworth papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0437
Abstract

Family papers relating to the poet and children’s author Elizabeth Coatsworth, including letters to Coatsworth from the English poet and novelist L.A.G. Strong and from the American author Josephine Pinckney, as well as letters to Coatsworth’s husband, the writer Henry Beston.

Dates: 1902-1948

William Cobbett letter to "Gentlemen"

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0041
Abstract An autograph letter written and signed by William Cobbett to "Gentlemen," reading in part, "The delay of the printer in coming to me has been so long, that I have been compelled to send off my manuscript to London. I am getting on with another copy. However, I really am afraid, that it would be productive of great inconvenience to your printer; for I must have proofs and revises." In closing, Cobbett writes of Henry Charles Carey, "I hope, that Mr. Carey's health is perfectly restored....
Dates: 1818 April 21

Brian Coffey letters to Mark Axelrod

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0854
Abstract

These four typed letters from Irish poet Brian Coffey to American academic Mark Axelrod consist of three written in 1978 and one in 1990. Coffey wrote to Axelrod about literature and philosophy.

Dates: 1978, 1990

Right Reverend Leighton Coleman letter to L. W. Wells

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0026
Abstract

One handwritten letter by Frances E. Coleman, on behalf of Right Reverend Leighton Coleman, Bishop of the Delaware Diocese, concerning Leighton's illness and the denial of a request by a Mr. Betts to use one of the diocese's churches.

Dates: 1892 December 5

Collection related to Stanley Morison's 60th birthday

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0989
Abstract

Collection of six items related to a dinner held at Brown's Hotel on May 6, 1949, to honor Stanley Morison on his 60th birthday. Includes the envelope lettered by Will Carter of Rampant Lions Press, sealed with a large stamped wax seal, bearing John Carter's name, which contained the other items.

Dates: 1949-1968

Padraic Colum letter to Bruce Kellner

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0821
Abstract

One letter typed signed from Padraic Colum to Dr. Bruce Kellner.

Dates: 1959 October 28

Padraic Colum letter to Mary Ethel McAuley

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0451
Abstract

Padraic Colum's response to reporter Mary Ethel McAuley's question, "Is modern culture decadent?" for the "Where We Stand" column of the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Dates: 1921 April-May

Padraic Colum letter to Mr. Gourley

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0500
Abstract

Padraic Colum letter to Mr. Gourley.

Dates: 22 March 1927

Padraic Colum letters to Edward Frank Allen

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0453
Abstract

Padraic Colum letters to Lippincott's Magazine editor Edward Frank Allen.

Dates: 1915

Timbuktu : playscript and letter

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0643
Abstract

Playscript for Padraic Colum's "Timbuktu" and letter from Colum to "Kornfeld." Letter was laid in the playscript.

Dates: [1959]

Padraic Colum letter to Harry [Salzberg]

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0737
Abstract

Letter from Irish author Padriac Colum to Harry [Salzberg]

Dates: undated

Joseph Parsons Comegys letter to E. W. Gilpin

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0074
Abstract

Autograph letter from lawyer Joseph Parsons Comegys, future United States senator (D-Delaware) and Delaware Supreme Court chief justice, to E. W. Gilpin, the president of the Union Bank of Delaware, in response to a request for an examination of the safety of the mortgage held by three individuals.

Dates: 1848 November 13

Evan S. Connell letter to Ralph Sipper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0881
Abstract

One typed letter written and signed by Evan S. Connell, Jr. to Ralph Sipper on August 21, 2005, plus envelope.

Dates: 2005 August 21

Henry C. Conrad letter to unidentified

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0113
Abstract

Handwritten letter by U.S. Commissioner and Supervisor of Elections for Delaware Henry C. Conrad to an unidentified recipient offering gratitude for two photographs of an old church and inquiring whether more information about said church is available, dated November 22, 1897.

Dates: 1897 November 22

James Fenimore Cooper to Carey, Lea and Company

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0044
Abstract An undated autograph letter written and signed by James Fenimore Cooper to Messrs. Carey, Lea and Company, saying that he is coming to Philadelphia "this week" and that he wishes "to commence printing immediately and to complete one vol. with the least possible delay." Cooper adds that he "shall probably send a few sheets of manuscript corrected tomorrow, and if they could be set in type & ready for me on Sunday, it would be clear gain...I expect to be able to say that Careys can print a...
Dates: undated

Cid Corman letters to Richard Aaron

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0692
Abstract

Six postcards and two typescript letters written by Cid Corman to Richard Aaron, dated between 2000 and 2001.

Dates: 2000 July 11-2001 December 11

Frances Cornford letters and poems

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0810
Abstract

Autograph letters and manuscript poems written by English poet Frances Cornford.

Dates: 1959-1960, undated

Gregory Corso letters and poems

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0748
Abstract

Poems and letters from American poet Gregory Corso.

Dates: 1956-1975

Francis Boardman Crowninshield letters to Ethel du Pont

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0097
Abstract

Two handwritten letters from Francis Boardman Crowninshield, noted yachtsman and husband to Louise E. du Pont, to Ethel du Pont, one making light of Ethel's driving speed and the other a thank you note for some persimmons from Ethel.

Dates: 1943 November 13-1946 August 8

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AE, 1867-1935 5
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Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 5
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009 5
Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949 5
Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 5
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 5
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 4
Carter, John, 1905-1975 4
Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856 4
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 4
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 4
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999--Correspondence 3
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998 3
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Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 3
Irish statesman (Dublin, Ireland : 1919) 3
McLane, Louis, 1786-1857 3
Morgan, Charles, 1894-1958 3
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936- 3
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Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811 3
Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943 3
AE, 1867-1935--Correspondence 2
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 2
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 2
Bancroft, William P. (William Poole), 1835-1928 2
Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898 2
Black Sparrow Press 2
Boyd, Ernest Augustus, 1887-1946 2
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 2
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 2
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 2
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 2
Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879 2
Carvel, Elbert Nostrand, 1910-2005 2
Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856--Correspondence 2
Coleman, Leighton, 1837-1907 2
Conrad, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1852- 2
Davenport, Guy 2
Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972 2
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 2
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957 2
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
Field, Edward, 1924- 2
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 2
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 2
Joans, Ted 2
Kaufman, Alan 2
Knight, Arthur Winfield, 1937- 2
Knight, Kit 2
Lane, Hugh Percy, Sir, 1875-1915 2
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Martin, John, 1930- 2
Mathews, Elkin, 1851-1921 2
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817--Correspondence 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Messick, Charles P. 2
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 2
Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859 2
O'Brien, Kate, 1897-1974 2
O'Sullivan, Seumas, 1879-1958 2
Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 2
Owen, Peter, 1927-2016 2
Pentagram Press 2
Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 2
Pommy-Vega, Janine 2
Purdy, James, 1914-2009 2
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 2
Reed, Jeremy 2
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 2
Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel 2
Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 2
Rush family 2
Russell, George William, 1867-1935--Correspondence 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 2
Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 2
Shorter, Dora Sigerson, 1866-1918 2
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009--Correspondence 2
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980 2
Stavis, Barrie 2
Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896-1958 2
Tarachow, Michael 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933--Correspondence 2
Turco, Lewis 2
Turner, Tom, 1870- 2
United States. Post Office Department 2
University of Delaware 2
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 2
Whittemore, Reed, 1919-2012 2
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