This page provides links to all new collection descriptions to highlight new or updated access to primary sources at the University of Delaware Library.

Manuscript and Archival collections at the University of Delaware Library are managed in collection call number series as listed in the headers below. New finding aids for collections in each series are listed below.

An alphabetical list (for all collections, by title) is also available. Please contact Special Collections for assistance of any kind.

Items housed in this collection are albums, blank books, or scrapbooks in format, ranging in size from small handbooks to oversize folios. These volumes include commonplaces, copy books, friendship albums, autograph albums, scrap albums, scrapbooks, albums with sample trade cards, and other such blank books filled with collected items or text. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

Items housed in this collection include some of the oldest manuscripts in the University of Delaware Library, from a Babylonian cone or an Ottoman prayer book to early alchemical manuscripts acquired with the Unidel History of Chemistry Collection in 1968. Please ask for assistance in the Special Collections department.

Account books, ledgers, journals, and other record-keeping volumes of individuals, businesses, and organizations are housed in this collection. Many of these items are oversize. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

The diaries, journals, and ships' logs housed in this collection are personal narratives and records acquired singly by the University of Delaware Library. A number of recipe books, travel narratives, memoirs, and other individually composed accounts are found in this collection. Other items of the same nature are also found in the larger archival collections of individual or family papers in the manuscript collection series beginning with MSS 100. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

Items housed in this collection are single manuscripts or small collections of documents related to Delaware. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

Items housed in this collection are single manuscripts or small collections of documents of literary or historical significance. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

The bulk of manuscript and archival collections in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library are housed in the collection call number series beginning with MSS 100. Additional online finding aids and collection descriptions will be added as they become available.