Manuscript and Archival Collections
- Manuscript collections are listed below in alphabetical order by title of collection.
- A list of manuscript collections in collection number order is also available.
- Additional unpublished finding aids, inventories, and other access tools are available in Special Collections.
- Please ask Special Collections for reference assistance of any kind.
A
- A. Colish, Press of, archives
- Abbey Theatre playbill collection
- Albertson family papers
- Alden, Henry Mills, papers
- Allen, Margaret and Ned, papers
- Allen, William F., scrapbook
- American Academy of Music papers
- American Chemical Society, archive of the Delaware Section of the
- American-Moninger architectural drawings of greenhouses and conservatories
- American propaganda collection
- Anderson, John, papers
- Andrew Clow and Co., papers
- Angelica and Amity Presses, archives of the
- Archaeological Society of Delaware, archive of the
- Arsht, Roxana Cannon, papers
- Ashley, Merwin F., World War I scrapbook
- Auchincloss, William S., scrapbook
- Autograph Abraham Lincoln Documents from the Lincoln Collection
- Ayer family papers
B
- BBC Third Programme radio scripts
- Baker - Fales - Rush family papers
- Bancroft, Samuel, and Joseph Bancroft and Sons records
- Barker, Elsa, letters to
- Barnes, Robert, collection of Curtis and James River paper samples
- Barry, Sir Gerald, correspondence
- Barthelme, Donald, collection
- Bartlett, Lee, papers
- Bates, Arlo, and George L. Vose papers
- Bates, George Handy, Samoan papers
- Bassoon
- Bazelon, David T., papers
- Beadle and Adams archives
- Beck, Lewis White, manuscripts of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings ...
- Beebe, Anna, papers
- Beer, John, collection
- Bennett, Paul A., collection
- Biddle family papers
- Binyon, Laurence, correspondence
- Bird & Bull Press archives
- Black family papers
- Black, John Janvier, papers
- Black, Robert M., docket book
- Black Stone Press archive
- Blanding family papers
- Blank, Frederick, papers
- Böer, Karl Wolfgang, papers
- Bongé, Lyle - James Leo Herlihy correspondence
- Booth, James Curtis, papers
- Booth, Thomas R., diaries
- Borgnis, Florence and Alfred, travel collection
- Bounds, Roland E., science fiction collection: papers and ephemera
- Bounds, Roland E., science fiction paperback book collection
- Bounds, Roland E., science fiction periodical collection
- Bowles, Paul, collection
- Bowles, Paul see also Herrmann, Irene - Paul Bowles collection
- Bowles, Paul see also Hoyt, Nancy - Paul Bowles collection
- Bowles, Paul, letters to John Martin
- Bowles, Paul, letters to William Saroyan
- Bowles, Paul see also Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, papers related to Paul Bowles
- Bowles, Paul, papers
- Boyle, Kay, letters to Robert Nellen
- Boyle, Kay, papers
- Boyle, Kay, papers relating to research on Irish women
- Boyle, Kay, papers relating to the Citizens' Mission to Cambodia
- Brayman, Harold, papers
- Brayman, Harold, papers supplement
- Brennan, Robert, and Maeve Brennan papers
- Brewer, William Augustus, bookplate collection
- Bright family papers
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, - Kimon Friar correspondence and Brinnin literary manuscripts
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, letters to John Matthew O'Shea
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, papers
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, papers supplement
- Brooks, Shirley, letters
- Brown, Harry Fletcher, collection
- Brown, Henry Kirke, papers
- Brown, Patricia D., papers of Col., related to service in Vietnam
- Browne, Gordon, letters to
- Browne, N. B., papers
- Browning, Armistead W., Jr., papers
- Burd family papers
- Burdick, Kim Rogers, papers
- Burdick, Kim Rogers, papers related to Delaware folklife
- Burke, W. Merritt, III, pulp paperback book collection
C
- Cairns, Edward, papers
- Caldwell, Joseph K., papers
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, records of the
- Canterbury, Katrina, collection of Burt L. Standish - Frank Merriwell books
- Carey Bros. Wall Paper Manufacturing Company records
- Carper, Thomas R., congressional papers
- Carr, Virginia Spencer, papers
- Carty family papers
- Chance, Elbert T., papers
- Chanticleer, archives of
- Chester, Alfred, letters to Curtis Harnack
- Children of the American Revolution see Jones, Frazer, papers ...
- Clapp, William, papers
- Clark, David, papers
- Clark, Rev. John Alonzo, sermons
- Clay, Henry, presentation items
- Clifford, Lucy, letters to
- Coatsworth, Elizabeth, papers
- Cobden-Sanderson, Richard, letters to
- Coffey, Brian, papers
- Coffey, Brian, papers supplement
- Cohen, William J., papers
- Cohn, Louis Henry and Marguerite, Hemingway collection
- Coleman, Emily Holmes, papers
- Collins and Autenrieth architectural works
- Colum, Padraic, papers
- Combs, Tram, correspondence
- Conard-Pyle Company archives
- Cooke, Jay, papers
- Corman, Cid, journals
- Corman, Cid, letters to David Giannini
- Corso, Gregory, letters and poems
- Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, papers
- Cramp, Edwin S., papers
- Cuala Press collection
- Cumberland, Sharon, papers
- Cummins, William Polk, papers
- Cunard, Nancy, and Hugh Ford letters to David Garnett
- Curtis, Cyrus H.K., papers
D
- Daniels, Pearl Herlihy, map collection papers
- Davenport, Guy, letters
- Dawson, Luella Delamartre, photographs of China
- De La Mare, Walter, letters to John Middleton Murry
- Dean, William, notebooks
- Delauney, Ralph collection related to Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo
- Delaware deeds collection
- Delaware Health Council
- Delaware Humanities Forum archives
- Delaware Oral History collection
- Delaware 19th Century business and trade card collection
- Delaware Theatre Company archives
- Delaware Victory Bond manuscript collection
- DePol, John, papers
- Desegregation of Delaware archives
- Digest of Town Council Minutes, Newark, Delaware
- Di Prima, Diane, letters and poetry, collection of
- Dinwiddie, Robert, Virginia Colony Lt. Governor, official correspondence and military letters
- Dodd, Mead, & Co. archive
- Donnell, Samuel M., insurance records for Newark, Delaware
- Dorn, Herbert, papers
- Dorsey, George M., letters
- Douglas, Lester, collection
- Dreamstreets archive
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, collection
- Dussauce, Hippolyte, papers
- Dyeing catalog collection
E
- Ellegood see Torbert - Ellegood collection
- Elliot, Mary Jane, papers
- En Passant archive
- Enslin, Theodore, correspondence with Howard McCord
- Ernest, John Reynolds, papers
- Evans, Abbie Huston, letters to Odell Shepard
- Evans, George G., family papers and supplement
- Evans, Montgomery II, collection of Lord Dunsany manuscripts
- Everson, William, collection
F
- Farano, Michel, papers
- Farrell, James T., papers
- Feinberg, Sidney and George Grady, letters from calligraphers to
- Ferber, Edna, letters to Flora Mae Holly
- Fernald, James C., architectural blueprints
- Field, Edward, Alfred Chester archives
- Field, Edward, papers
- Flint, Sir William Russell, letters to Kay Pickford
- Ford, Charles Henri, letters to Ted Joans
- Ford,Charles Henri, manuscript archive for Om Krishna II
- Forman, H. Buxton, papers relating to John Keats
- Forney, John W. The Letters of Occasional
- Foundation Center Cooperating Collection Delaware: Tax Returns of Private Foundations in Delaware: Forms 990-PF and 990-AR
- Fraim, Robert C., poetical writings
- Frank, Bill, ephemera
- Frank, Waldo, papers
- Frear, J. Allen Jr., Senator, papers
- Friendship Fire Company, Wilmington, Delaware, records of the
- Fuehrer Bunker Research Library
- Fulton, Edward A., papers
- Fulton, Gardiner, papers
- Futurism collection
G
- Gallagher, Hugh F. Jr., family papers
- Gardner, Ralph D., papers
- Georgetown, Delaware, businesses, archives of
- Girvin family papers
- Goodrich, Lloyd and Edith Havens, Albert Pinkham Ryder archive
- Goudy, Frederic W., collection
- Graff family papers
- Gratz, Alfred, family papers
- Gravell, Thomas, watermark collection
- Gray, George, papers of
- Great Britain. Board Of Ordnance. Plymouth Office of Ordnance. Record book of the,
- Green, Paulette, paper collection
- Griggs, Mary B., compositions
- Grubb family papers
- Guare, John see Hoffman, Richard - John Guare collection
H
- H. Rubinfine & Son archive
- Halio, Jay, papers related to Angus Wilson
- Hall, John Wood, shipping papers
- Hamilton and Hood papers
- Handy, George, correspondence
- Hannum, Robert Marshall, vs. Wilmington City Railroad Company, papers regarding
- Hansberry, Lorraine see Hoffman, Richard - Lorraine Hansberry collection
- Harris, Mark, papers
- Harris, Mark, papers supplement
- Harrison Street Methodist Church papers
- Hart, John E., collection regarding Albert Halper
- Hartshorne, Charles and Dorothy - Jeremy Ingalls collection
- Haverlin, Carl, papers relating to Carl Sandburg
- Heap, Jane see Reynolds, Florence, collection related to Jane Heap and The Little Review
- Hemingway, Ernest, collection
- Hemingway, Ernest, manuscripts
- Henderson, Benjie, papers
- Henry, Margaret Rose, speeches
- Herlihy, James Leo - Lyle Bong� correspondence
- Herlihy, James Leo, papers
- Herrmann, Irene - Paul Bowles collection
- Hewitt, William Graily, letters to Sidney Feinberg
- Historic map collection
- Hoe & Company see R. Hoe & Company collection
- Hoffman, Richard - John Guare collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Lorraine Hansberry collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Arthur Miller collection
- Hoffman, Richard - David Mamet collection
- Hoffman, Richard - David Rabe collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Neil Simon collection
- Hoffman, Richard - August Wilson collection
- Holland, Thomas Agar, letters to George Reid
- Holocaust Testimonies Project
- Holzapfel, Rudi, letters to Ellen Shannon-Mangan
- Holzapfel, Rudi, papers
- Holzapfel, Rudi, poetry manuscripts
- Homer, William Innes, papers
- Homer, William Innes papers related to Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Hood, W. Russell, collection related to typography and graphic design
- Horn, Charles S., ledgers
- Hoskins, Katherine, papers
- Hossinger, James, papers
- Houghton, Clinton Osborne, diaries
- Hoyt, Nancy - Paul Bowles collection
- Hull, John C., letters to John Thomson
- Humberd, Charles, Dime Novel collection
- Hunn, Ezekiel, Jr., letters to Lydia Hunn
- Hutchison, Harriet Elizabeth papers
I
- Ingalls, Jeremy see Hartshorne, Charles and Dorothy - Jeremy Ingalls Collection
- Irish Theatre journals
- Ivers, M.J. see M.J. Ivers and Company archives
J
- J.K. Wright Printing Ink Company records
- Janvier, John, account books for New Castle, Delaware
- Jennings, Elizabeth, collections related to
- Jones, Frazer, papers of the Robert Kirkwood Society, Children of the American Revolution
- Johnson, Charles, papers
- Johnson, Everett C. & Louise Staton, papers
- Johnson, Fridolf, papers
- Johnson, R. Brimley, papers relating to, Shelley-Leigh Hunt
- Johnson, Robert Underwood, collection
- Junior Order Of United American Mechanics. Harmony Council. No. 23. Cheswold, Delaware. Records of the,
- Justice, Donald, papers
K
- Kasebier, Gertrude, collection
- Kasebier, Gertrude, papers
- Kells, Press of, collection
- Kent, Rockwell, letters to David Wesley
- Kettell, George F., correspondence
- Klinkowitz, Jerome, papers relating to Kurt Vonnegut
- Koch-Messchert family papers
L
- Laidlaw, Dugald S., letterbook
- Lanman, Charles, papers
- Larsen, Wanda, papers
- Latimer family papers
- Lawrence, Seymour, publishing files related to Kurt Vonnegut
- Lawton, Rae, travel diary
- Layton, Caleb S., correspondence
- Layton, L. Lee, Jr., papers
- Leahy, Paul, papers
- Leech, Steven, papers
- Le Sueur, Meridel, collection see Schleuning, Neala, Meridel LeSueur collection
- Le Sueur, Meridel, papers
- Letters written during a South American Cruise, 1827-1828, 1832
- Levine, Philip, letters to Stephen Berg
- Lewis family papers
- Lewis, Dorsey Waitman, papers
- Lewis, Henry Carvill, papers
- Lewis, John Frederick, papers
- Lieberman, J. Ben, papers
- Lilley, David, papers
- Lincoln, Abraham, autograph documents from the Lincoln Collection
- Lincoln, Abraham, collection
- Littell family papers
- Livermore, William, papers
- Loos, Anita, letters to Ray Pierce Corsini
- Loveman, Samuel, papers
- Lukens family papers
M
- M.J. Ivers and Company archives
- MacArtor, June D., papers
- McClure Publishing Company archives
- McCord, Howard, papers
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, papers
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, papers related to First Hymn to Lenin & Other Poems
- MacGreevy, Thomas, letters to Eleanor and Frederick Reid
- McKee, Robert B., papers
- McKenna, Bernard, collection related to Irish theater and writers
- Macleod, Norman, papers
- McLeod family papers
- Mamet, David, see Hoffman, Richard - David Mamet collection
- Manners, J. Hartley, letters to Philip Troup
- Maps, historic, collection
- Marshals of Napoleon collection
- Marston, Alice, scrapbook
- Martin, Edward William, architectural works
- Martin, John Hill, family papers
- Marvel, David T., family correspondence
- Masten, Cornelius, papers
- Matthews, Elva de Pue, papers
- Maulsby family papers
- Maxwell, James, papers
- Medill, Agnes P., Boys and Girls Liberty Clubs of Delaware scrapbook
- Merci Train collection
- Meredith, Samuel, letters and documents
- Meredith, Samuel, papers
- Mergenthaler Linotype Company
- Messersmith, George S., papers
- Middle States Council for the Social Studies archive
- Millgate, Michael - C. P. Snow collection
- Miller, Arthur, see Hoffman, Richard - Arthur Miller collection
- Mizener, Arthur, papers
- Moore, George, collection
- Moore, George, letters to Lady Leonie Leslie
- Morgan, Charles, letters to Ronald Armstrong
- Morgan, George, papers
- Morris family papers
- Morris, Dr. Charles Allston, papers of, related to Southbridge Medical Advisory Council and Activities Center
- Morris, Cleveland, papers related to the Delaware Theatre Company
- Mulligan, Michael, account books of Delaware City, Delaware
- Munroe, John A., papers
N
- Nelson, David M., papers
- New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, archive of the
- Newark, Delaware, church records, transcripts of early
- Newark, Delaware, Digest of Town Council Minutes
- Newark [Delaware] Music Society records
- Nixon-Nirdlinger, Frederick G., scrapbook
O
- Oak Knoll Books, archives of
- Oakley, Thornton, diaries
- Oakley, Thornton, and Amy Oakley collection
- O'Connor, Frank, manuscripts
- O'Connor, Ulick, papers
- O'Donnell, Frank J. Hugh, papers
- O'Faolain, Sean, letters
- O'Faolain, Sean, letters to John and Mary Marshall
- Olson, Toby, letters to Carl Thayler
- Onions, Oliver, papers
P
- Pagany, archive of
- The Park 1, archive of
- Parker, David Bigelow, letterbook
- Patriotic Order of the Sons of America collection
- Pearn, Nancy, papers
- Pearson, G. Burton, Jr. papers
- Pentagram Press archives
- Peter Koch Printer papers
- Peter Owen, Inc., archives
- Philadelphia Inquirer Notebooks of newsclippings related to art
- Philadelphia Theatrical papers
- Phillips, Gene, collection of James T. Farrell papers
- Phillpotts, Eden, collection
- Pieratt, Asa, collection of ephemera relating to Kurt Vonnegut
- Pieratt, Asa, papers related to Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography
- Pierce family papers
- Pilsbury, Caroline, letters to Hannah Stickley
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware archives
- Plymouth Office of Ordnance, Great Britain. Board of Ordnance. Record book of the,
- Plough Press archives
- Posner, David Louis papers
- Potter family papers
- Powell family papers
- Price, Eli K. papers
- Proscenium Press, archives of the
- Prueitt, Felix N., photograph albums
- Purdy, James, manuscripts
- Pyle, Howard, correspondence
- Pyle, Katharine, papers
Q
R
- R. Hoe & Company collection
- Rabe, David see Hoffman, Richard - David Rabe collection
- Rahn, Charles Edward, architectural drawings
- Raven Arts Press, archive of the
- Read family papers
- Reade, John, family papers
- Reed, Henry Clay, papers
- Reed, Ishmael, papers
- Reid, Christina, My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?
- Reid, Eleanor and Frederick, papers related to Jack B. Yeats
- Reynolds, Florence, collection related to Jane Heap and The Little Review
- Reynolds, Thomas M., letters to Louisa J. Seward
- Ribner, Irving, papers
- Richardson, William, collection
- Ridgely family papers
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, biographical intro's to The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
- Robert Kirkwood Society see Jones, Frazer, papers ... Children of the American Revolution
- Robinson, Lennox, papers related to John Quinn
- Robinson, Winifred J., papers
- Rodney family papers
- Roop-Rogers family papers
- Rosenthal, Irving, papers
- Ross, Anne Halsey, papers
- Rostler, Fritz, papers
- Rothenstein,Sir William, and Sir John Rothenstein collection
- Rowell family papers
- Rubber Development Corporation reports
- Rubicam, Charles A., architectural drawings
- Rubinfine, H. see H. Rubinfine & Son archive
- Ruck, Berta, travel papers
- Rush family papers
- Rushmore, Arthur W., papers
- Russell, Frank, genealogical collection
- Ryden, George Herbert, correspondence
S
- Sajous, Dr. Charles, papers
- Salmon Publishing, Ltd., Archives of
- Saulsbury, Willard, papers
- Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, papers related to Paul Bowles
- Schleuning, Neala, Meridel LeSueur collection
- Schoonover, Frank E., - Thornton Oakley, correspondence regarding Howard Pyle
- Science fiction periodical collection see Bounds, Roland E., science fiction periodical collection
- Scott family papers
- Scott, Anne Geraldine, correspondence
- Seed catalogs
- Shaw, Bernard, collection
- Shedd, Charlotte, tapes and papers
- Shepard, Sam, collection
- Shipley family papers
- Shirley, John, papers related to Thomas Harriot
- Shorter, Clement King, papers
- Signatures archive
- Simon, Neil, see Hoffman, Richard - Neil Simon collection
- Simpson, Eileen B., papers
- Smith, Gwynne P., papers
- Smith, Sydney Goodsir, papers
- Snodgrass, W.D., collection
- Snodgrass, W.D., correspondence with Daniela Gioseffi
- Snodgrass, W.D., letters and manuscripts to Jerome Mazzaro
- Snodgrass, W.D., papers
- Snodgrass, W.D., papers: Fuehrer Bunker Research Library
- Snow, C.P. see Millgate, Michael - C. P. Snow collection
- Snow, Wilbert, letters to Homer E. Woodbridge
- Snowdon, Ruth J., collection of travel slides
- Snyder, Henry M., Notes on Americanization
- Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, transcripts of letters relating to Delaware
- Society of the Cincinnati, toasts of the New Jersey
- Somers, G. Frederick, papers
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, letters to David Markson
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, papers
- Sparks family papers
- Spiller, Robert E., collection
- Sprague, William Buell, letters from
- Standish, Burt L. see Katrina Canterbury collection of Burt L. Standish - Frank Merriwell books
- Steele, Marion H., papers
- Stern, Madeleine B., papers related to Joseph de Nancrède
- Stewart, Willard, photographs for the WPA & HABS [digitized collection, available online]
- Stewart, Willard, photographs for the WPA & HABS [finding aid]
- Stock, Irvin, papers
- Stokes, William Axton, papers
- Stoddard, Richard Henry, papers
- Stone, Rev. Nathan, sermons
- Strickland, Peter, papers
- Sturgell, Jack, collection
- Symons, A.J.A., papers
- Symons, Julian, papers
- Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, papers
T
- Tatum, George, papers
- Taylors Gut manuscripts
- Teasdale, Sara, letters to Joyce and Aline Kilmer
- Teasdale, Sara, letters to Orrick Johns
- Telford, Fred, Charles P. Messick papers
- Textile Manufacturers, papers relating to
- Thatcher family papers
- Thayer, Cecil Smith, papermaking and watermarks collections
- Thoyts, E.E., "Old Paper Watermarks"
- Tilghman, Marjorie Johnson, papers
- Torbert - Ellegood collection
- Townsend, George Alfred, collection
- Townsend, George Alfred, correspondence
- Townsend family papers
- Trumbull, Henry Clay, correspondence
U
- Ulster Theatre plays
- United States Light-House Board collection
- University of Georgia Press collection
- University Place Book Shop papers
- Untermeyer, Louis, correspondence with John D. Weaver
- Untermeyer, Louis, papers
V
- Viele, Teresa, scrapbooks
- Viñes, Ricardo, collection of music manuscripts
- Virden family papers
W
- Walsh, Grace Lloyd, papers
- Wanger, Walter, papers
- Waples family papers
- Ward, Christopher, papers
- Whalen, Philip, Three Mornings
- Wheeler, Ethel Rolt, letters to
- Wieners, John, papers
- Wiggins, Homer C., collection
- Wilds, Jennie, and Caddie Lynch autograph albums and daguerreotypes
- Williams family papers
- Williams, Harry F., papers
- Williams, John J., Senator, papers
- Williams, Talcott, papers
- Williams, Tennessee, collection
- Williams, William Carlos, collection
- Williams, William John, papers
- Wilson family papers
- Wilson, Alexander, papers
- Wilson, August see Hoffman, Richard - August Wilson collection
- Wilson, Elizabeth H., papers
- Wilson, Helen Howard, collection of work books for Froebel's System of Gifts
- Wilson, Robert A., collection
- Wilson, Robert A., collection related to James Purdy
- Wilson, Wilbur T., map collection
- Woolf, Douglas, papers
- World War II maps and radio broadcasts
- Wright, J.K. see J.K. Wright Printing Ink Company records
X
Y
- Yeats, Jack Butler, correspondence
- Yeats, William Butler, collection
- Young, Pauline, collection
Z
- Zebley, Frank R., papers