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Abstract:: Edgar Meck Dilley attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1895. While at Penn, Dilley studied architecture and was an active member of the Glee Club. As a sophomore, he composed the lyrics to the University's alma mater "Hail, Pennsylvania" and encouraged William J. Goeckel and Harry E. Westervelt to write "The Red and Blue," the alma mater more commonly sung today. This small collection consists primarily of printed and published works by Edgar Meck Dilley, including poetry, short stories, novels, the script of an operetta, and the lyrics of "The Red and Blue".

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Abstract:: Edwin Wolf II was an expert on rare books, an author and historian of Colonial America, a leader in Philadelphia's Jewish community, president of the Friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library from 1947 to 1953, and librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia from 1955 to 1984. The Edwin Wolf II papers are mostly made up of a draft of A Faculty Survey of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries (1940) and material pertaining to his involvement with the Friends of the University Library and the Committee for a Bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvania Library.

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