Manuscript and Archival Collections
Manuscript and archival collections in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library are listed alphabetically, by title of collection, on this page. Additional finding aids and collection descriptions will be added as they become available. Manuscript collections at the University of Delaware Library are managed in collection Call Number Series as listed on additional pages.
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A
- A. Colish, Press of, archives
- AAUW Delaware Division, archive of
- AAUW Mill Creek Branch, archive of
- AAUW Newark Branch, archive of
- Abbey Theatre, playbills and related materials
- Albertson family papers
- Alden, Henry Mills, papers
- Alderson, William T., papers
- Allen, John W., journal of a voyage from Boston to Calcutta
- Allen, Margaret and Ned, papers
- Allen, William F., scrapbooks
- American Academy of Music papers
- American Chemical Society, Delaware Section, archives of the
- American Propaganda collection
- American-Moninger, architectural drawings of greenhouses and conservatories
- Anderson, John, papers
- Andrew Clow & Co., papers
- Angelica and Amity Presses, archive of the
- Archaeological Society of Delaware, records of the
- Arsht, Roxana Cannon, papers
- Ashhurst family papers
- Auchincloss, William S., scrapbook
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), letters to Reed Whittemore
- Ayer family papers
B
- Baker, Alfred G., papers
- Baker - Fales - Rush family papers
- Bamberger books archive
- Bancroft, Samuel, and Joseph Bancroft and Sons, records
- Barker, Elsa, letters to
- Barnes, Robert, collection of Curtis & James River paper samples
- Barry, Sir Gerald, correspondence
- Barthelme, Donald, collection
- Bartlett, Lee, papers
- The Bassoon
- Bates, Arlo, and George L. Vose, papers
- Bates, George Handy, Samoan papers
- Bazelon, David T., papers
- BBC Third Programme, radio scripts
- Beadle and Adams, archives
- Beale, Joseph Hoare, journals
- Beck, Lewis White, manuscripts of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings in Moral Philosophy
- Beebe, Anna, papers
- Beer, John, collection
- Bemerkungen ber Abdrucken: Rembrandt
- Bennett, Paul A., collection
- Biddle family papers
- Binyon, Laurence, correspondence
- Bird & Bull Press archives
- Black family papers
- Black, Jeanie Groome, travel diaries
- Black, John Janvier, papers
- Black, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), Selected from various authors: Chosen paragraphs, agreeable to the fancy of the compiler
- Black Stone Press archive
- Black, Robert M., docket book
- Blackburn, Paul, provencal poets collection
- Blanding family papers
- Blank, Frederic A., papers
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, letter to William Longman
- Böer, Karl Wolfgang, papers
- Bogosian, Eric, The Revolutionary Aesthetic of Beauty : essay
- Boland, Eavan, "March 1 1847. By The First Post" poem
- Bolger, Dermot, discussion with Tim Murray and Rebecca Johnson Melvin
- Bongé, Lyle, correspondence with James Leo Herlihy
- Booth, James C., papers
- Booth, Thomas R., diaries
- Borgnis, Florence & Alfred, travel collection
- Bounds science fiction paperback collection
- Bounds, Roland E., papers and ephemera collection
- Bounds, Roland E., science fiction periodical collection
- Bowles, Paul, collection
- Bowles, Paul, letter to Pud Gadiot
- Bowles, Paul, letters to John Martin
- Bowles, Paul, letters to William Saroyan
- Bowles, Paul, papers
- Bowles, Paul see also Herrmann, Irene - Paul Bowles collection
- Bowles, Paul see also Hoyt, Nancy - Paul Bowles collection
- Bowles, Paul see also Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, papers related to Paul Bowles
- Boyce, Truxton W., genealogical research and family papers
- Boyle, Kay, letters to Robert Nellen
- Boyle, Kay, papers related to Irish Women
- Boyle, Kay, papers relating to the Citizens' Mission to Cambodia
- Boyle, Kay, papers
- Boytinck, Paul - C.P. Snow collection
- Brace, Seth C., collection
- 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
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, letters to John Matthew O'Shea
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, papers
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, papers supplement
- Brinton family papers
- Brooks, Shirley, letters
- Brown, Edward E., Biography of my campaign in the Phillippines
- Brown, Harry Fletcher, collection
- Brown, Henry Kirke see Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke, "Henry Kirke Brown: The Father of American Sculpture" manuscript
- Brown, Patricia D., Colonel, the papers of, related to Vietnam
- Browne, Gordon, letters to
- Browne, N.B., papers
- Browning, Armistead W., Jr., papers
- Budd family papers
- Bukowski, Charles, poems and letter
- Burd family papers
- Burdick, Kim Rogers, papers related to Delaware folklife
- Burdick, Kim Rogers, papers
- Burke, W. Merritt, III, pulp paperback book collection
- Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke, "Henry Kirke Brown: The Father of American Sculpture" manuscript
C
- Cairns, Edward, papers
- Caldwell, Joseph, papers
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, records of the
- Campbell, Thomas, letter to Frederick De George
- Canterbury, Katrina, collection of Burt L. Standish - Frank Merriwell books
- Carey Bros. Wallpaper Manufacturing Company, records
- Carper, Thomas R., Congressional papers
- Carr, Virginia Spencer, papers
- Carroll, Jim, poems
- Carter, John, papers
- Carty family papers
- Chance, Elbert T., papers
- Chanticleer, archives of
- Chappell, Daniel A., Remarks on board the ship Rambler
- Chester, Alfred, letters to Curtis Harnack
- Chew, Phyllis G., World War I scrapbooks
- Children of the American Revolution see Jones, Frazer, papers ...
- Clapp, William, papers
- Clark, David, papers
- Clark, John Alonzo, the Reverend, sermons
- Clarke, Austin, letters to [Michael] Begnal
- Clarke, John, On board the ship Governor Morton
- Clay, Henry, presentation items
- Clayton, Donna, collection
- Cleaver, Joseph, Diary kept at Delaware College
- Clifford, Lucy, letters
- Clifford, William John Cavendish, log of H.M. Ship Undaunted
- 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, "The County Mayo" poem
- Colum, Padraic, "The Miracle of the Corn" playscript and theater program
- Colum, Padraic, "Timbuktu" playscript and letter
- Colum, Padraic, letter to Harry [Salzberg]
- Colum, Padraic, letter to Mary Ethel McAuley
- Colum, Padraic, letter to Mr. Gourley
- Colum, Padraic, letters to Edward Frank Allen
- Colum, Padraic, papers
- Combs, Tram, correspondence
- Conant poster collection
- Conard-Pyle Company, the, archives
- Cooke, Jay, papers
- Corman, Cid, journals
- Corman, Cid, letters to David Giannini
- Cornford, Frances Darwin, letters and poems
- Corso, Gregory, letters and poems
- Coughlin, Jack, portraits of Beckett
- Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, papers
- Cramp, Edwin S., papers
- Cruikshank, George and Robert, collection
- Cuala Press
- 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
- D'Arcy, Margaretta, postcard to Bernard McKenna
- Darley, Arthur, personal journal of Captain Arthur Darley, R.N.
- Davenport, Guy, letters
- Dawson, Ann Fox, Project Jazz Festival scrapbook
- 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 Academy of Science. Iron Hill Museum. Iron Hill Museum oral history recordings and transcripts
- Delaware clippings and scrapbook collection
- Delaware Council for International Visitors records
- Delaware Health Council
- Delaware Humanities Forum archive
- Delaware Nineteenth Century Business and Trade Card collection
- Delaware Oral History collection
- Delaware State Beekepers Association records
- Delaware Theatre Company archives
- Delaware Victory Bond, manuscript collection
- DePol, John, papers
- Desegregation of Delaware archive
- Di Prima, Diane, collection of letters and poetry
- Digby, John, papers
- Digest of Town Council Minutes, Newark, Delaware
- Dinwiddie, Robert, official correspondence and military letters of Virginia Colony Lt. Gov.
- Dodd, Mead, & Co. archive
- Dodds, George, ship's log for the snow Susana
- Donnell, Samuel M., insurance records for Newark, Delaware
- Doran, James S., private journal of James S. Doran
- Dorn, Herbert, papers
- Dorsey, George M., letters
- Douglas, Lester, collection
- Dreamstreets, archive of
- Dukore, Bernard Frank, collection of Barrie Stavis papers
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, papers
- Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, "A Matter of Law" short story
- Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, "A Tale of Revenge" short story
- Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, letter to Katherine Marie Cornelia Brégy
- Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, letter
- Dussauce, Hippolyte, papers
- Dutilh family business records
- Dyeing catalog collection
E
- Eigner, Larry, letters and poems
- Ellegood see Torbert - Ellegood collection
- Elliot, Mary Jane, papers
- Emerson, H.A., journal of
- Empson, William, letters
- En Passant archive
- Enslin, Theodore, letters to Howard McCord
- Ernest, John Reynolds, papers
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), "The Preacher's Practice" short story
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letter to Dinner and Morum
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letter to Miss Gwen John
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Arthur St. John Adcock
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Eric N. Simons
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Rubinstein and Lawson
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Sir Gerald Reid Barry
- Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to William Armstrong
- Etching collection
- 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
- Farrell, Rita, collection related to dance
- Feinberg, Sidney, and George Grady, letters from calligraphers to
- Ferber, Edna, letters to Flora May Holly
- Ferguson, Robert, Land indenture between Robert Ferguson, his wife Jane, and Joseph Kinkead, NewArk, New Castle County, Delaware
- Fernald, James C., architectural blueprints
- Field, Edward, Alfred Chester, papers
- Field, Edward, archives
- Field, Edward, papers
- Flint, William Russell, Sir, letters to Kay Pickford
- Ford, Charles Henri, archive on Om Krishna II
- Ford, Charles Henri, letters to Ted Joans
- 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, Waldo, papers
- Frear, J. Allen, Jr., papers
- Friends of the Newark Free Library, records
- Friendship Fire Company, Wilmington, Delaware, records of the
- Fulton, Edward, papers
- Fulton, Gardiner, papers
- Futurism collection
G
- Gallagher, Hugh F., Jr., family papers
- Gardner, Ralph D., papers
- Georgetown, Delaware, Businesses, archives of
- German Dying Catalog collection
- Gibbon, Monk, "Being But Men" poem
- Gilmour, Robert, letter to William Young
- Girvin family papers
- Glasford, Hugh, Land indenture between Hugh and Ann Glasford and Robert Ferguson for property in the White Clay Creek Hundred
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John, American lecture tour publicity collection
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Ernest Augustus Boyd
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Richard Barry
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Ted Robinson
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John, poems and documents
- Gold, Sir Joseph, collection related to Samuel Beckett
- Gold, Joseph, Sir, political and miscellaneous ephemera
- Goodrich, Lloyd and Edith Havens, papers relating to Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Goudy, Frederic W., papers
- Graff family papers
- Gratz, Alfred family papers
- Gravell, Thomas, watermark collection
- Gray, George, papers
- Great Britain. Board of Ordnance. Plymouth Office of Ordnance, record book of the
- Great Raven Press
- Green, Paulette, paper collection
- Gregory, Lady, letter and cards to Talbot Press
- Gregory, Lady, letter to Dorothy Radcliffe
- Gregory, Lady, letter to Grosvenor
- Gregory, Lady, letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler
- Gregory, Lady, letters to Mrs. Henry LaBarre Jayne
- Griggs, Mary B., compositions
- Grubb family papers
- Guare, John see Hoffman, Richard - John Guare collection
- Guinan, John, "Black Oliver" playscript
H
- H. Rubinfine & Son archive
- Halio, Jay, papers related to Angus Wilson
- Hall, John Wood, shipping papers
- Hall, S.C. and Mrs. S.C., collection
- Hamilton and Hood, papers
- Hancock, Winfield Scott, papers
- Handy, George, papers
- Hannum, Robert Marshall vs. the Wilmington City Railroad Co., papers regarding
- Hansberry, Lorraine see Hoffman, Richard - Lorraine Hansberry collection
- Harding, Henry A., ship's log of the Otago
- Hareven, Tamara K., papers
- 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 related 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
- Ship Herald Stonington (ship's log)
- Hergesheimer, Ella Sophonisba, collection
- Herlihy, James Leo - Lyle Bongé correspondence
- Herlihy, James Leo, papers
- Herrmann, Irene - Paul Bowles collection
- Hewitt, Graily, letters to Sidney Feinberg
- Hichens, Robert Smythe, letter to Mrs. Fitzgerald Mann
- Hickey, Emily Henrietta, letter to Lord Archbishop
- Hill, Mary, correspondence
- Historic map collection
- Hodge, Frederick A., log of the HMS Minotaur
- Hoe & Company see R. Hoe & Company collection
- Hoffman, Richard, collection of American and British theater and film scripts
- Hoffman, Richard - Arthur Miller collection
- Hoffman, Richard - August Wilson collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Beth Henley collection
- Hoffman, Richard - David Mamet collection
- Hoffman, Richard - David Rabe collection
- Hoffman, Richard - John Guare collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Lorraine Hansberry collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Neil Simon collection
- Hoffman, Richard - Woody Allen collection
- Hogarth, William, engravings
- 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
- Howell, Charles, journey at sea on board the ship Marcus of Sag Harbor, B. Green Master
- Howell, Ebenezer, Land indenture between Ebenezer Howell and his wife Sarah, from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to William Armstrong of Newark, Delaware
- Howells, William Dean, letter to Mr. Underwood
- Hoyt, Nancy - Paul Bowles collection
- Hughes, Langston, ephemera collection
- Hulings, David Watts, papers
- Hull, John C., letters to John Thompson
- Humberd, Charles, dime novel collection
- Hunn, Ezekiel, Jr., letters to Lydia Hunn
- Hunt, Leigh, letter to Charles Ollier
- Hutchison, Harriet Elizabeth, papers
I
- Ingalls, Jeremy see Hartshorne, Charles and Dorothy - Jeremy Ingalls Collection
- Ingraham, Duncan N., journal of a cruise in the U.S. Steam Sloop Richmond
- Irish Theatre journals
- Iron Hill Museum see Delaware Academy of Science. Iron Hill Museum. Iron Hill Museum oral history recordings and transcripts
- Ivers, M.J. see M.J. Ivers and Company archives
J
- J. J. Lankes Bookplate collection
- J.K. Wright Printing Ink Company, records
- Janvier, John, account books for New Castle, Delaware
- Jennings, Elizabeth, letters & poetry manuscripts
- Jennings, Elizabeth, papers
- Jennings, Elizabeth, poetry manuscripts
- Jennings, Elizabeth, poetry notebooks
- Jenny Pitts (bark), ship's log for the bark Jenny Pitts
- Johnson, Charles, papers
- Johnson, Everett C. & Louise Staton, papers
- Johnson, Fridolf, papers
- Johnson, George S., journal of a whaling voiage [sic] in the Atlantic ocean on Board Schr Antarctic
- Johnson, R. Brimley, papers relating to Shelley-Leigh Hunt
- Johnson, Robert Underwood, collection
- Jones, Frazier, papers of the Robert Kirkwood Society, Children of the American Revolution
- Joyce, James, "In the dark pinewood" poem
- Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Harmony Council, No. 23, Cheswold, Delaware, records of the,
- Justice, Donald, papers
K
- Kallal, Catherine W., papers
- Kasebier, Gertrude, papers
- Kasebier collection
- Kean, Charles John, letter to J. Webster
- Kells, Press of, collection
- Kelley, Robert, "The Common Shore" : uncorrected proofs and letter
- Kent, Rockwell, letters to David Wesley
- Kettell, George F., correspondence
- Kirk, James, family papers
- Klinkowitz, Jerome, papers relating to Kurt Vonnegut
- Koch-Messchert family papers
L
- Laidlaw, Douglas S., letterbook
- Lang, Patricia Ethelwyn, papers
- Lanman, Charles, papers
- Larsen, Wanda, papers
- Latimer family papers
- Lavin, Mary, letter to "Charlotte"
- Lawless, Emily, letter to Smith
- Lawrence, Seymour, papers related to Kurt Vonnegut
- Lawton, Rae, travel diary
- Layton, Caleb S., correspondence
- Layton, L. Lee, Jr., papers
- Le Sueur, Meridel, collection see Schleuning, Neala, Meridel LeSueur collection
- Le Sueur, Meridel, papers
- League of Women Voters of Newark, DE, archive of
- Leahy, Paul, papers
- Leech, Steven, papers
- Letters written during a South American cruise, 1827-1828, 1832
- Levine, Philip, letters to Stephen Berg
- Lewis, Dorsey Waitman, papers
- Lewis, Henry Carvill, papers
- Lewis, John Frederick, papers
- Lewis family papers
- Lieberman, J. Ben, papers
- Lieberman leaf collection
- Lilley, David, letters
- Lincoln, Abraham, autograph documents from the Lincoln collection
- Lincoln, Abraham, collection
- Lincoln Club of Delaware, records
- Littell family papers
- Livermore, William, papers
- Loos, Anita, letters to Ray Pierre Corsini
- Loveman, Samuel, papers
- Lover, Samuel, "Paddy's Portfolio" programme
- Lover, Samuel, letter to Andrew T. Thorp
- Lover, Samuel, letter to Deane
- Lover, Samuel, letter to Edward Wolford
- Lover, Samuel, letter to Le Chevalier Chatelain
- Lover, Samuel, letter to Mrs. Edmund Grundy
- Lover, Samuel, letter to William Pickering
- Lover, Samuel, letters
- Lueders, Alfred D., Metropolitan Merchandise Marts. Inc / Clifton Park Manor, collection
- Lukens family papers
M
- M.J. Ivers and Company archives
- MacArtor, June D., papers
- McClure, Michael, correspondence with Arthur and Kit Knight
- McClure Publishing Company, archives
- McCord, Howard, papers
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, papers
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, papers related to First Hymn to Lenin & Other Poems
- MacDonogh, Patrick, letter to Seumas O'Sullivan
- MacGill, Patrick, letter, notes, and poem
- MacGreevy, Thomas, letters to Eleanor and Frederick Reid
- McKee, Robert B., papers
- McKenna, Bernard, collection related to Irish Theater and Writers
- McLeod family papers
- Macleod, Norman, manuscripts
- MacMahon, Bryan, "The Gap of Life" : play
- MacNamara, Brinsley, manuscripts
- MAFPA collection
- Mallouk, Robert S., scrapbooks of World War II cartoons
- Mamet, David, see Hoffman, Richard - David Mamet collection
- Manners, J. Hartley, letters to Philip Troup
- 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 R., papers
- Maxwell, John, letter to Samuel Lover
- 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, archive
- Messersmith, George S., papers
- Metcalf, Paul C., Letters to Ted Wilentz
- Meynell, Alice, letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler
- Mid-Atlantic Food Processors Association, Inc. records
- Middle States Council for the Social Studies, archive of
- Milford New Century Club, archives
- Miller, Arthur, see Hoffman, Richard - Arthur Miller collection
- Miller, Henry, collection of Reflections on the Life of Mishima
- Millgate, Michael - C.P. Snow collection
- Mizener, Arthur, papers
- Montague, John, postcard to "William"
- Moore, George, collection
- Moore, George, letters to Lady Leonie Leslie
- Moore, George, letters
- Moore, Harry, papers
- Morgan, Charles, letters to Ronald Armstrong
- Morgan, George, papers
- Morgan, Lady (Sydney), letter to Henry Colburn
- Morgan, Lady (Sydney), letter to Madame Thayer
- Morris family papers
- Morris, Cleveland, papers related to the Delaware Theatre Company
- Morris, Dr. Allston, papers of, relating to Southbridge Medical Advisory Council
- Morris, Henry, Swine Print : serial and letter to Anne
- Moyerman Autograph collection
- Mulligan, Michael, account books for Delaware City, Delaware
- Munroe, John A., papers
N
- Nelson, David M., papers
- New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, archive of
- Newark Music Society, records
- Newark, Delaware, Digest of Town Council Minutes
- Newark, Delaware, transcripts of early church records
- Nichols, Dudley, "The Informer" screenplay
- Nineteenth-century American Military collection
- Nixon-Nirdlinger, Frederick G., scrapbook
O
- Oak Knoll Books, archives of
- Oakley, chris, collection
- Oakley, Thornton, diaries
- Oakley, Thorton and Amy, collection
- O'Brien, Edna, "Virginia" playscript
- O'Brien, Kate, letter to Douglas Glass
- O'Brien, Kate, letter to Mary O'Neill
- O'Casey, Sean, "Purple Dust" essay
- O'Casey, Sean, "Purple Dust" playscript
- O'Casey, Sean, "The Silver Tassie" playscript
- O'Casey, Sean, "Young Cassidy" manuscript
- O'Casey, Sean, letter to Angela Barry
- O'Casey, Sean, letter to Basil Smeed
- O'Casey, Sean, letter to Bethel Solomons
- O'Casey, Sean, letter to Bonar Thompson
- O'Casey, Sean, letter to Harold Waller
- O'Casey, Sean, letters to Bumpus and Company
- O'Casey, Sean, Sean O'Casey letter to the editor of The Irish Statesman
- O'Connor, Frank, plays
- O'Connor, Frank, postcard to Nancy McCarthy
- O'Connor, Ulick, papers
- O'Donnell, Frank J. Hugh, papers
- O'Faoláin, Seán and Brian Friel, letters to Joel Wells
- O'Faoláin, Seán, letters to John and Mary Marshall
- O'Faoláin, Seán, letters
- O'Flaherty, Liam, "A Night Attack" short story
- O'Flaherty, Liam, "Martinique: An Original Screenplay" (carbon copy)
- O'Flaherty, Liam, "Martinique: An Original Screenplay" (ribbon copy)
- O'Flaherty, Liam, "The Seduction" short story
- O'Flaherty, Liam, letter to Gerald William Bullett
- O'Grady, Standish, letter to Morris
- Ollier, Charles, letters to Leigh Hunt
- Olson, Toby, letters to Carl Thayler
- Onions, Oliver, papers
- Orpen, William, Sir, "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript
- O'Sullivan, Seumas, letter to Barker
- Owen, Peter, archive
P
- Pagany, archive of
- The Park 1, archive of
- Parker, David Bigelow, letterbook
- Patriotic Order of the Sons of America collection
- Patterson, William D., journal
- Pearn, Nancy, papers
- Pearson, G. Burton, Jr., papers
- Pentagram Press archives
- Perelle, Gabriel, collection
- Peter Koch printer papers
- Peter Owen, Inc., archives
- Philadelphia Inquirer see Sloan, Helen Farr, notebooks
- Philadelphia Theatrical papers
- Philadelphia weather diary
- Phillips, Gene, collection of James T. Farrell papers
- Phillpotts, Eden, collection
- Phoebus, Mia, collection of Tennessee Williams papers
- 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 Stickney
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware archives
- Plough Press archives
- Plymell, Charles, manuscripts
- Plymouth Office of Ordnance, Great Britain. Board of Ordnance. Record book of the,
- Pommy-Vega, Janine, manuscripts
- 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
- Rabe, David see Hoffman, Richard - David Rabe collection
- Rahn, Charles Edward, architectural drawings
- Rather Press collection
- 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?" playscript and theater program
- Reid, Eleanor and Frederick, collection 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, David Lester, "The shades of evening veil the lofty spires …" sonnet
- Richardson, William, collection
- Ridgely family papers
- Rinard, Sally, papers
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, biographical introductions to The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
- Robert Kirkwood Society see Jones, Frazer, papers ... Children of the American Revolution
- Robinson, Lennox, letters
- Robinson, Lennox, papers related to John Quinn
- Robinson, Winifred J., papers
- Rodney family papers
- Rogers, Robert Possac, journal of a voyage from Boston to Rio de Janeiro on board ship Franklin
- Roop-Rogers family papers
- Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), lithographic prints of Civil War encampments
- Rosenthal, Irving, papers
- Ross, Anne Halsey, papers
- Rostler, Fritz, papers
- Rothenstein, William, Sir, 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
- Rukeyser, Muriel, letters to David Posner
- Rush family papers
- Rushmore, Arthur W., papers
- Russell, Frank B., geneological collection
- Russell, George William [AE], letter to [Summers]
- Russell, George William [AE], letter to Ogden Heath
- Russell, George William [AE], letter
- Russell, George William [AE], letters and poems
- Russell, George William [AE], letters to James Stephens
- Russell, George William [AE], letters
- Ryden, George Herbert, correspondence
S
- Sajous, Dr. Charles, papers
- Salmon Publishing, Ltd., archive of
- Saulsbury, Willard, papers
- Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, papers related to Paul Bowles
- Schleuning, Neala - Meridel Lesueur collection
- Schleuning, Neala, poster collection
- Schneeman, George, calendars
- Schoonover, Frank E. - Thornton Oakley, correspondence related to 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
- Shaw, George Bernard, card to Fred Terry and Miriam Michelson playscript "The Duchess Barbara [of Leeds]"
- Shaw, George Bernard, postcard to Daphne Harwood
- Shedd, Charlotte, tapes and papers
- Shepard, Sam, collection
- Sherry, James, "In Case" : manuscript
- Ship Herald Stonington (ship's log)
- Shipley family papers
- Shippen, Dr. William, Jr., notes from medical lectures
- Shirley, John, papers related to Thomas Harriot
- Shorter, Clement King, letter to Dr. George Williamson
- Shorter, Clement King, letter to Gadric Gregory
- Shorter, Clement King, papers
- Shorter, Dora, letter
- Signatures archive
- Simon, Neil, Broadway Bound : a new comedy playscript and program
- Simon, Neil, see Hoffman, Richard - Neil Simon collection
- Simpson, Eileen B., papers
- Sinclair, John, Guitar Army manuscript
- Sloan, Helen Farr, Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks
- Smith, Charles, papers
- Smith, Gwynne, papers
- Smith, James E., pocket diary
- Smith, Sydney Goodsir, papers
- Snodgrass, W.D., correspondence with Daniela Gioseffi
- Snodgrass, W.D., letters and manuscripts to Jerome Massaro
- Snodgrass, W.D., papers: Fuehrer Bunker Research Library
- Snodgrass, W.D., papers
- 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
- Sombre Reptiles Press, records
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Butler
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Mrs. Allhusen
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Mrs. Butler
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letters
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, papers
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, letters to David Markson
- Sparhawk, George, journal of the U.S.S. Enterprise
- Sparks family papers
- Spender, Stephen, letter to Reed Whittemore
- 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. (Marion Harlan), papers
- Stern, Madeleine B., papers related to Joseph de Nancrède
- Stewart, Willard, photographs for the WPA & HABS
- Stock, Irvin, papers
- Stoddard, Richard Henry, papers
- Stokes, William Axton, papers
- Stone, Nathan, the Reverend, sermons
- Storey, George Adolphus, papers
- Strickland, Peter, papers
- Strong, Frederick G., journal of a voyage from Boston to Newfoundland
- Sturgell, Jack, collection
- Symons, A.J.A., papers
- Symons, Julian, manuscripts
- Synge, John Millington, letter to Fay
- Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, papers
T
- Tatum, George B. 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, Ceil Smith, papermaking and watermarks collections
- Thoyts, E.E., old paper watermarks
- Tilghman family papers
- Tilghman, Marjorie J., papers
- Tober, Frank W., French revolutionary-era song sheets and pamphlets
- Tober, Frank W., manuscript and early printed leaf collection
- Torbert - Ellegood collection
- Torch Club of Delaware, papers
- Townsend, George Alfred, collection
- Townsend, George Alfred, correspondence
- Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, family papers
- Townsend family papers
- Tragara Press
- Trumbull, Henry Clay, correspondence
- Tynan, Katharine, letter to Elkin Mathews
- Tynan, Katharine, letters to Aliston [?] Mathews
- Tynan, Katharine, letters to Egan Mew
- Tynan, Katharine, letters to Langbridge
- Tynan, Katharine, letters to Miss Gosset
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
- Victorian paperback covers
- Viele, Teresa, scrapbooks
- Viereck, George Sylvester - John Thomas Head, correspondence
- Vietnam War Literature collection of dust jackets
- Viñes, Ricardo, collection of music manuscripts
- Virden family papers
W
- Waddell, Helen, letter to Stanley Nott
- Wakeman, Geoffrey, Plough Press, collection
- Wallenstein, Barry - James T. Farrel collection
- Walsh, Grace Lloyd, papers
- Walter, John, Land indenture between John Walter of Christiania Hundred, Delaware, and Joel Swaine of East Marlborough, Pennsylvania
- Wanger, Walter, papers
- Waples family papers
- Ward, Christopher, letter to Marina Wister
- Ward, Christopher, papers
- Warsh, Lewis, collection
- 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
- Wilkin, David, Land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, Blacksmith, of Newark in White Clay Creek Hundred and County of Newcastle on Delaware
- Williams, Harry F., papers
- Williams, Patrick, letter
- Williams, Senator John J., papers
- Williams, Talcott, papers
- Williams, Tennessee, collection
- Williams, William Carlos, collection
- Williams, William H., papers
- Williams, William John, papers
- Williams 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 related to James Purdy
- Wilson, Robert A., collection
- Wilson, Robert, John Wieners, collection
- Wilson, Wilbur T., map collection
- Wilson family papers
- Wolfe, Richard J., Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop : galley proofs
- Woman's Suffrage collection
- Women's Club of Claymont
- Woolf, Douglas, papers
- World War II maps and radio broadcasts
- Wright, J.K. see J.K. Wright Printing Ink Company records
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Y
- Yeats, Jack Butler, correspondence
- Yeats, Jack Butler, letter to Lady Gregory
- Yeats, Jack Butler, letters to Elkin Mathews
- Yeats, John Butler, letters
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), letter to George MacDonald
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), collection
- Yellow Barn Press, collection of John DePol wood blocks
- Young, Anne Wheeler and William Young, scrapbooks
- Young, Pauline, papers
Z
- Zebley, Frank R., papers

