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Willard Hall letters

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Call Number:
F0031
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
3 item (7 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0098, F0031, Willard Hall letters, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1819-1845 (inclusive)
Creator:
Hall, Willard, 1780-1875
Form:
Business letters, Letters of recommendation, and Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
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.

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.

This item forms part of MSS 0098 Delaware Miscellaneous Historical and Literary Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2015 June 5
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Collection Inventory

Willard Hall letters, 1819-1845.
Box 2 Folder F0031

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