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Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0670
Abstract

The Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers is a combination of correspondence and personal papers originated by American author and actor James Leo Herlihy and literary papers belonging to Herlihy’s long-time friend and literary executor, American author Jeffrey Bailey.

Dates: 1942-2006; Majority of material found within dates 1953-1993

Fleda Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0800
Abstract

Fleda Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, scholar, and educator, and was poet laureate for the state of Delaware from 2001-2007. The Fleda Brown papers, spanning circa 1950-2014 (bulk 1963-2014), comprise early works, poem drafts and notes, journals, correspondence, and materials related to Brown’s professional life as a poet and professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1950-2014; Majority of material found within 1963-2014

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

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

Notes on trips to Paris, Normandy and Brittany : Notes on a trip through the Smoky Mountains in 1935

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0069
Abstract

These two travel journals belonging to Emily Sowden contain descriptions of trips to France, the Southeast United States, and Latin America in the 1930s. The entries feature itineraries with commentary and are supplemented by numerous postcards, photographs, small maps, and plant specimens.

Dates: 1933-1939

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0172
Abstract

The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1934

Forecastle journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0085
Abstract This journal, named after the forecastle or upper forward deck of a sailing ship, was kept by American sailor Archibald Wilson during the period 1842-1843 and documents five trips taken while serving aboard the ships James Edwards, Pioneer of Alexandria, and James Perkins. The journal entries document meteorological conditions, events of the day, duties performed aboard the ship, Wilson's...
Dates: 1842-1883; Majority of material found within 1842-1843

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Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Photographs 4
Correspondence 3
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Delaware--History--19th century 2
Delaware--History--20th century 2
Financial records 2
Genealogists 2
Genealogy 2
Interviews 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
North Carolina--Description and travel 2
Notebooks 2
Poems 2
Research notes 2
Scrapbooks 2
Sketches 2
South Carolina--Description and travel 2
Specimens 2
Tennessee--Description and travel 2
Tourism--Europe--History--20th century 2
Tourism--History--20th century 2
Tourism--United States--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Actors--United States--20th century 1
African American authors 1
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
Agriculturists 1
Alabama--Description and travel 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American poetry--20th century 1
American poetry--21st century 1
American poetry--Awards 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Arkansas--Description and travel 1
Artists--United States--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Automobile travel--Canada--History--20th century 1
Automobile travel--East (U.S.)--History--20th century 1
Automobile travel--Southern states--History--20th century 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Business letters 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
China--History--20th century 1
Clergy 1
Collages (visual works) 1
Copper engravings (visual works) 1
Costa Rica--Description and travel 1
Cuba--Description and travel 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Dramatists, American--20th century 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Dream interpretation--History--20th century 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Fairs 1
Families--United States--History--18th century 1
Families--United States--History--19th century 1
Families--United States--History--20th century 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
France--Description and travel 1
Freehand drawings (drawings) 1
Gay men's writings, American 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Georgia--Description and travel 1
Glass plate negatives 1
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Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
 
Names
Bailey, Jeffrey 1
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Blondell, Joan 1
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Bongé, Lyle 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
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
Broughton, James, 1913-1999 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dietrich, Marlene 1
Durrell, Lawrence 1
Episcopal Church 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
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Herlihy, James Leo 1
Heston, Charlton 1
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1
Jackson, Fleda Brown, 1944- 1
James Edwards (Ship) 1
James Perkins (Ship) 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kirkwood, James, 1924-1989 1
Lambert, Gavin 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936- 1
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 1
Pasadena Community Playhouse 1
Pioneer of Alexandria (Ship) 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Shippen family 1
Sowden, Emily 1
Walker, Jeanne Murray 1
Weissberger, Arnold, 1898-1984 1
Welliver, Miriam E. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, Archibald, active 1843 1
Wilson, Archibald, active 1843--Diaries 1
Wilson, Jeanie Morse, 1851-1921 1
Wilson, Margaret, 1881-1953 1
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