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Ashhurst family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0549
Abstract

Personal and business papers of three generations of the Philadelphia-based Ashhurst family, including Richard Ashhurst (1784-1861); sons John Ashhurst (1809-1892) and Lewis Richard Ashhurst (1806-1874), partners with their father in the drygoods firm Richard Ashhurst & Sons; as well as the legal papers of Richard L. Ashhurst (1838-1911?).

Dates: 1818-1909
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Dickinson and Thomas McKean letter to Caesar Rodney

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0054
Abstract

Letter from John Dickinson and Thomas McKean, delegates to the Continental Congress, to Caesar Rodney, then President of Delaware. Writing at the direction of Congress, Dickinson and McKean request Rodney appoint a sufficient guard to take custody of sixty-four prisoners captured aboard the British sloop-of-war Harlem.

Dates: 1779 July 22-1779 July 30
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Dickinson letter to Tench Coxe

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0055
Abstract

Autograph letter from John Dickinson, Founding Father of the United States and politician, to Tench Coxe, American political economist and Pennsylvania Delegate to the Congress of Confederation, thanking him for his reply. The letter is accompanied by an etched profile portrait of Dickinson.

Dates: 1788 July 5
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

E. W. (Eliphalet Wheeler) Gilbert letter to Edward Gould

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0192
Abstract

One autograph letter signed and written by Reverend E. W. (Eliphalet Wheeler) Gilbert to Edward Gould dated July 14, 1851.

Dates: 1851 July 14
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

George Handy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0133
Abstract The George Handy Papers, 1845-1871 (bulk 1846-1850), comprises 273 letters and business documents from a prominent Philadelphia-based nineteenth-century merchant. The collection, as a whole, reflects social and personal relations with Handy family members in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Mississippi, as well as other friends; and business and economic affairs of domestic and foreign commerce, much of which was conducted by shipping through the ports of Philadelphia and New Orleans, or via...
Dates: 1841-1871; Majority of material found within 1846-1850
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Arthur Howell letter to Clement Laws

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0085
Abstract

One handwritten letter from tanner and currier Arthur Howell to Clement Laws about the falling sales and prices of finished leather in the Delaware Valley region.

Dates: 1805 June 6
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Frederick Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0129
Abstract The papers of prominent Philadelphia lawyer and philanthropist John Frederick Lewis (1860–1932) span the dates 1882 to 1932 and include letterbooks, correspondence, advertising brochures, legal documents, and ephemera. The papers primarily document the legal business of Lewis through his work at the firm Lewis, Adler & Laws, but also reflect social and domestic affairs of John Lewis and his wife, Anne Baker Lewis, as well as cultural interests, through development of personal collections...
Dates: 1882-1932; Majority of material found within 1909-1928
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Hill Martin family history

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0148
Abstract

This volume contains an extensive history of the Martin family of Chester County and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, created by John Hill Martin. Martin created the history during the 1870s-1890s, but included materials from both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates: 1726-1899; Majority of material found within 1870-1899
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Thomas McKean letter to George Clinton

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0056
Abstract

Letter from Thomas McKean, as President of the Continental Congress, to Governor of New York, George Clinton, as cover for two acts of Congress, dated August 31, 1781, and September 14, 1781, concerning Consular and Vice-Consular powers. The acts referred to in the letter are not present.

Dates: 1781 September 21
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Thomas Rodney letter to Lavinia Rodney

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0061
Abstract

Colonel in the Revolutionary War and American lawyer and politician from Delaware, Thomas Rodney, wrote to his daughter, Lavinia, in Dover, Delaware, concerning his health and a plague affecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 1793.

Dates: 1793 September 15
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Rush family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0314
Abstract

The Rush family papers consist of materia spanning the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries relating to the prominent Rush family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1789-circa 1898; Majority of material found within 1820-1860
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

William Rush letter to Samuel Rush

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0276
Abstract

Autograph letter written and signed by William Rush to his father, Samuel Rush, discussing family political matters, dated August 9, 1855.

Dates: 1855 August 9
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Thomas Shipley letter to John Shipley

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0082
Abstract

Letter from Thomas Shipley to his brother, John Shipley, about the high price of flour at the market.

Dates: 1805 March 12
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert Taylor letter to John Reynell

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0068
Abstract

Brief autograph letter from Robert Taylor of Wilmington, Delaware, to Philadelphia merchant and banker, John Reynell, requesting 12 small loaves of loaf sugar.

Dates: 1768 September 2
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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