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Willard Hall letters
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Consists of three handwritten letters from Williard Hall, U.S. Representative (R-Delaware), lawyer, and judge from Delaware. The earliest of the three letters is a letter of recommendation for a resident of Delaware wishing for a clerkship in the Navy department. The second is a letter to Delaware Governor Charles Thomas on whether or not one could serve as a Governor and Speaker of the Senate at the same time. The third letter is addressed to Abraham Staats, Auditor of Accounts for the State of Delaware, in response to Staats' question about whether or not the schools in New Castle County were receiving the currect amounts of funds.
Box 2, F0031: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes
Finding aid encoded by Tiffany Saulter, June 2015.
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
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- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
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- 2015 June 5
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