Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Form Poems Year 1800 to 1849

Winston-Clark Family papers, 1814-1900 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

E. Newbold Cooper / Margaret Hawkins collection, 1820s-1979 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 linear ft. (5 boxes, 6 volumes)
Abstract:: Represents, in large measure, the Cooper and Wills families of E. Newbold Cooper and the Green, Hawkins, and Sharpless families of Margaret Hawkins.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Lloyd Balderston papers, 1837-1839 (inclusive)

Extent:: .125 linear ft. (2 volumes)
Abstract:: This collection contains two volumes compiled by Lloyd Balderston while he was a student at Haverford College between 1837 and 1839. One contains prose and poems written by himself and other Haverford students, and the other is his notebook with handwritten essays and annotations.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Catherine Brinton Cary papers, 1829, 1930 (inclusive)

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: The collection contains papers related to Catherine Brinton Cary.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Anna M. Leslie autograph album, 1843-1849 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Autograph album kept by Anna M. Leslie, who lived in the Philadelphia area.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Ann Jane Mitchell McAllister commonplace book, 1832-1836 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This commonplace book belonged to Ann Jane Mitchell McAllister of Philadelphia, PA. The entries in this book date between 1832 and 1836, before she married William Young McAllister. Her name is signed simply as Ann Jane Mitchell. This volume contains various copied poems by poets such as Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon). There appear to be two hands active in the volume and the poems are copied from literary magazines such as Blackwood's Magazine, The Literary Gazette, and The Athenaeum.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

John Dickinson papers, 1753-1808 (bulk) 1676-1885 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5.2 linear feet and 13 containers, 5 volumes
Abstract:: John Dickinson (1732-1808), a Philadelphia lawyer and politician, was a major figure in colonial Delaware and Pennsylvania governments and during the early national period. He was an active presence and prolific writer during the American Revolution and early Republic from the passage of the Sugar Act (1764) until the Jefferson presidency (1801 to 1809). He also served in the military as colonel, private, and brigadier general. He married Mary Norris in 1770. John Dickinson died in Delaware in 1808. The John Dickinson papers contains incoming and outgoing correspondence; drafts and original manuscript documents from the revolutionary and early national government, Revolutionary War, Delaware and Pennsylvania government; land papers; legal papers; bills and receipts; collected essays, notes and commonplace books; and estate material. The papers provide a clear picture of the way in which colonists envisioned their new country and how these new Americans worked, compromised and...(see more)

Held at: Library Company of Philadelphia [Contact Us]

Siegfried Weisberger papers, 1708-1955 (inclusive) 1923-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection includes material collected by Siegfried Weisbeger (1896-1984), proprietor of the Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore Maryland and confidante of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), a noted writer, editor, and social provocateur, famous for his disdain for common morals and received wisdom. The collection contains correspondence between the two men and other correspondents of the Peabody Book Shop, manuscripts and published writings by and about Mencken (many of them signed), and autobiographical writings and poems written by Weisberger.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Remembrancer of old friends, 1840-1869 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (+ 5 leaves)
Abstract:: A volume containing copied poems and elegies with Christian themes handwritten by Eliza Maria Dalton from 1840-1869.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Benjamin S. Stivers commonplace book, 1836-1844 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: A volume with worn covers consisting of poems and prose by Benjamin S. Stivers spanning the years from 1836 to 1843.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]