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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Henry Clay Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0499
Abstract

Henry Clay Reed, 1899-1972, was a renound Delaware historian and history professor at the University of Delaware for forty years, researching, teaching, writing, and editing numerous articles and books.

The Henry Clay Reed papers, spanning the dates from 1915-1974, contains legal documents, photographs, microfilm, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera from the historian and University of Delaware professor.

Dates: 1833-1979; Majority of material found within 1915-1972
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, transcripts of letters relating to Delaware

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Identifier: MSS 0462
Abstract The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was established in London in 1701 through a charter from King William III. The organization was created as a vehicle for sending priests and teachers to North America, in order to improve and expand the ministry of the Church of England to the colonists. The University of Delaware’s collection of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Transcripts consists of one box of typescript letters related to the Delaware...
Dates: 1703-1782; Majority of material found within 1703-1776
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Transcripts of early Newark, Delaware, church records

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Identifier: MSS 0347
Abstract This single volume, created through a 1936-1937 National Youth Administration project, supervised by Henry Clay Reed, the noted Delaware historian and University of Delaware professor, contains transcriptions from the record books of five Newark churches: the Village Presbyterian Church; the First Presbyterian Church; the Welsh Tract Baptist Church; the White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church; and the Head of Christiana Church. The records inlcude detailed accounts of minutes from meetings;...
Dates: 1739-1906
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
First Presbyterian Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
United States. National Youth Administration 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
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University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
Village Presbyterian Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Welsh Tract Church (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
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