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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

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

George B. Tatum papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0557
Abstract

The George B. Tatum papers comprise the reference files of a noted American architectural historian who compiled and organized numerous architectural plans, diagrams, black-and-white illustrations, tear sheets, articles, and selected photographs for the period 1900 to 1940.

Dates: 1900-1940

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

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Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 2
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Account books 1
African American authors 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France)--History--20th century 1
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Names
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 2
Abbott, Franklin 1
Albro & Lindeberg 1
Baum, Dwight James, 1886-1939 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
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Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Bullard, Roger H. 1
Carrère & Hastings 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824--Correspondence 1
Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson 1
Day and Klauder 1
Delano & Aldrich 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808--Correspondence 1
Eyre, Wilson, 1858-1944 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 1
Gilchrist, Edmund B. (Edmund Beaman), 1885-1953 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Homsey Architects, Inc. 1
Homsey, Samuel Eldon 1
Homsey, Victorine Du Pont 1
Janssen & Abbott 1
Janssen, Benno, 1874-1964 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lindeberg, H. T. (Harrie Thomas), 1879- 1
Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 1
McGoodwin, Robert Rodes, 1886-1967 1
McKim, Mead & White 1
Medary, Milton Bennett, 1874-1929 1
Mellor, Meigs & Howe 1
Okie, R. Brognard (Richardson Brognard), 1875-1945 1
Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reynell, John, 1708-1784 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Tatum, George B. 1
Taylor, Robert 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 1
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