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LITTELL FAMILY PAPERS
c. 1808 – 2005
(bulk dates 1830 – 1930)
Manuscript Collection Number 449
Accessioned: Gift of Jeanie L. and Julian D. Winslow, 1998 – 2006; and Samuel Milby
Harrington, 2000.
Extent: 18 linear ft. and 1 oversize box (32 x25)
Content: Correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published
material, ephemera, realia, financial records, sermons, diaries, books, artwork,
photographs, postcards, greeting cards, clippings, research notes, and microfilm.
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: In 2002 by Karen E. Ryder with additions in 2006 by Anita Wellner.
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Biographical Notes
The Littell family represented in this collection traces its ancestry to some of the early
eighteenth-century European settlers in the greater Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. The Quaker Littells originally came to New Jersey from New England in the early
1700s. Through marriage, the Littell family united with descendants of the Shippen, Willing,
and Morris families of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, and later with the Harrington
family of Dover, Delaware. The following family history highlights individual members who
appear in the Littell Family Papers. Names in bold indicate that personal papers are present for
that individual. See also the appendices available at the end of this finding aid.
The Three Morris Sisters of Germantown, Pennsylvania
Margaretta Hare Morris (1791-1867), Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865), and
Susan Sophia Morris (1800-1868) were the daughters of Ann Willing Morris (1767-1853) and
Luke Morris (1760-1802) of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth and Margaretta achieved
recognition as scientists during their lifetime. The sisters used the back garden of their
Germantown home to study insects and plants. Elizabeth corresponded with Dr. Asa Gray, a
noted botanist and member of the American Academy of Natural Sciences. She maintained a
collection of rare plants, and may have contributed articles to the American Agriculturist.
Margaretta is credited with discovering the seventeen-year-cicada. She was invited to become a
member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, which published the results of her
work in their Proceedings. Her papers were read before the American Philosophical Society,
and she published articles in the American Agriculturist under the name "M. H. Morris."
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The Morris sisters had roots in the Delaware Valley that reached back to the colonial
period. Their great-great-great-grandfather, Edward Shippen (1639-1712), was the first mayor of
Philadelphia. Shippen’s granddaughter, Anne, married Charles Willing (1710-1754), a
merchant, who also became a mayor of Philadelphia. Wilmington, Delaware, is said to be
named for the Willing family. Robert Morris, the financier and originator of the first Bank of the
United States, was an apprentice in Charles Willing’s firm. Morris later became a partner of
Willing’s son, Thomas (1731-1821), in the firm of Willing, Morris, and Company. Thomas
Willing, banker, businessman, and Revolutionary-era political leader, was the Morris sisters’
great-uncle.
Charles Willing (1738-1788), Thomas’ younger brother, married Elizabeth Hannah
Carrington, of Barbados, in 1760. Their daughter, Ann Willing Morris (1767-1853), married
Luke Morris (1760-1802), whose great-grandfather, Anthony Morris II (1654-1721), had been
the mayor of Philadelphia in 1703-4. Ann Willing Morris and Luke Morris had four children
who survived to adulthood, the three sisters mentioned above and Thomas Willing Morris, who
married Caroline M. Calvert of Maryland. Widowed at age 35, Ann did not remarry. Susan
Sophia Morris (1800-1868), Ann’s youngest daughter, married John Stockton Littell (18061875) in 1832. The three Morris sisters were part of a nineteenth-century social and cultural
network of correspondents that included Dr. Asa Gray, the reformer Dorothea Dix, and Mary
Roberdeau, who was a guest of President John Quincy Adams at the White House in 1827-1828.
The Littells
Captain Eliakim Littell (d. 1805) was an officer during the American Revolution. He was
descended from Quakers who had come to New Jersey from New England during the
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seventeenth century. Stephen Littell (1772-1818), Eliakim’s third child, married Susan Gardiner
(1777-1813) in 1796, and the couple had four children. Their daughter, Susan Elton, married
into the Urmston family. Two of their sons went into publishing, while a third son, Squier Littell
(1803-1886), became a physician.
Eliakim Littell (1797-1870), publisher, was the eldest son of Stephen and Susan
Gardiner Littell. Eliakim and a partner by the name of Henry began publishing Philadelphia
Register and National Recorder, a sixteen-page weekly, in 1819. This publication was known as
the National Recorder from 1819-1821, and Saturday Magazine from 1821-1822. By 1822, it
had grown from a 16-page to a 96-page weekly, Museum of Foreign Literature and Science.
Robert Walsh edited it from 1822-1823. Littell experimented with adding illustrations in 1826.
Littell's two brothers, Squier Littell (1803-1886), and John Stockton Littell (I - 1806-1875),
helped him in the publishing business at various times. For example, “E. Littell & Brother”
published Literary Port Folio: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art, and the Times. By
1829, E. Littell was publishing books and magazines under his name only, including Remember
Me: A Religious and Literary Miscellany Intended as a Christmas and New Year's Present
(1829), and Philadelphia Mail and Universal Literary and General Advertiser. In 1844, Littell
sold Museum and started Littell’s Living Age, which continued in publication until 1897, when it
became Living Age. Most of Littell’s publications, except for the Philadelphia Mail, which was
mostly advertising, contained original work and reprints of European and American literature
and nonfiction. Eliakim Littell is credited by the editor of the Dictionary of American Biography
as having been instrumental in making European intellectual movements accessible to “every
cultivated American home” during the early national period.
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John Stockton Littell (I), was the youngest son of Stephen and Susan Gardiner Littell.
Orphaned at a young age, John worked in publishing with his older brother, Eliakim Littell
(1797-1870), and as a partner in a Baltimore bookstore. In 1832, he married Susan Sophia
Morris. Later, he studied law, became active in politics, and served as president of the
Pennsylvania State Convention of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860. He wrote The Clay
Minstrel; or National Songster, to which is prefixed a sketch of the life, public services, and
character of Henry Clay, a collection of political campaign songs published in 1842. In 1846, he
edited a history of the American Revolution originally written by Alexander Graydon, titled
Memoirs Of His Own Time, With Reminiscences Of The Men And Events Of The Revolution.
John and Susan Morris Littell raised three children to adulthood in Germantown, Pennsylvania,
where their youngest child, Margaretta Morris, died at the age of nine. Charles Willing Littell
(1832-1895), John and Susan’s eldest son, studied law, and married Susan Lemmon.
Thomas Gardiner Littell (I - 1837-1911), youngest son of Susan Morris Littell and
John Stockton Littell (I), was the first of many subsequent Littells to become an Episcopal
priest. Ordained in 1859, he served at Christ Church in Dover, Delaware, from 1865-1866, and
St. John’s Church in Wilmington from 1868 until 1894. He started a church in Keene, New
Hampshire, where the family spent their summers. He worked for the New York City Mission
for ten years while serving at St. John’s Church in Yonkers, New York, until 1909, when he
retired. Harriet Hare Littell (1835-1885), his sister, made him the executor of her will, which
specified that her money be used “for missions, poor churches, or for himself.” He invested this
money in real estate and financial securities, records of which form the bulk of his papers in this
collection. He was a member and chaplain of the Delaware Society Sons of the American
Revolution.
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The Harringtons of Delaware
In 1867, Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) married Helen Arcadia Harrington (1848-1924),
who was the youngest daughter of prominent Delawareans Samuel Maxwell Harrington and
Mary Lofland. Samuel Maxwell Harrington (1803-1865), Delaware lawyer, judge, and
businessman, was the son of Richard Harrington (1772-1821), a Delaware sheriff. From 18321855, Samuel was Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Delaware, becoming Chief Justice
in 1855, and Chancellor in 1857. In his capacity as Associate Justice, he also served as the first
law reporter of Delaware, compiling three volumes of “Reports of the Supreme Court of
Delaware,” from 1837-1844. With John M. Clayton, he was a founder of the Delaware Railroad
Company and became its first president in 1852. Politically, he was a Whig, and Unionist during
the Civil War. In 1836, he married Mary Lofland (1813-1871), who was the daughter of Dr.
Purnell Lofland (1793-1852) and Arcadia Milby. The couple had nine children.
Samuel Milby Harrington (1840-1878), eldest son of Samuel Maxwell Harrington and
Mary Lofland, graduated from Delaware College in the late 1860s, and practiced law in the firm
of Harrington and Hoffecker in Wilmington, Delaware. His brother, Purnell Frederick
Harrington (1844-1937), attended the U.S. Naval Academy, made a career of naval service, and
rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. He served with Admiral Farragut during the Civil War in the
Battle of Mobile Bay. He married Maria (Mia) Ruán, daughter of a prominent family of St.
Croix, Virgin Islands. Richard Harrington (1847-1884), also a son of Samuel Maxwell
Harrington and Mary Lofland, practiced law and became U.S. District Attorney in 1865.
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Descendants of Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) and Helen Arcadia Harrington Littell
The Reverend T. Gardiner Littell (I) and Helen Arcadia Harrington had three sons, two of
whom became Episcopal ministers and one a physician, and two daughters. The youngest son,
Elton Gardiner Littell (II - 1879-1962), became a pediatrician, and was superintendent of
health in the Yonkers, New York, public schools. The daughters, Helen Arcadia Littell (18801934) and Mary Morris Littell (1884-1984), were both active in the Women’s Auxiliary of the
Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. Helen was chairwoman of the Church Periodical Club and also
raised money for Chinese mission work. Mary was a charter member of the Alliance Francaise
(Wilmington, Delaware), the Historical Society of Delaware, and the Colonial Dames of
America.
Samuel Harrington Littell (1873-1967) graduated from Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1895, and from General Theological Seminary in 1898. He was ordained an
Episcopal priest in 1899 in Shanghai, China. He worked as an Episcopal missionary in China for
the next thirty-one years, witnessing the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the 1911 revolution that
established the Chinese Republic, and the 1927 uprising in Wuchang and Hankow. In 1929,
Harrington Littell was appointed Bishop of Honolulu, where he served during the attack on Pearl
Harbor in 1941. Awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by Trinity College in 1937,
Harrington retired from missionary work in 1942, and moved to New York City.
In 1902, Harrington Littell and Charlotte Moeller Mason married and had several
children. Charlotte died in China in 1913. Needing help with the children, Harrington appealed
to his sister, Helen Arcadia Littell (1880-1934), who traveled to China to help until, in 1915,
Harrington married Evelyn Taber.
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John Stockton Littell (II - 1870-1932), Episcopal priest, teacher, author, editor, and
historian, was the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) and Helen Arcadia
Harrington. He attended Rugby Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, graduated from Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1890, and from the General Theological Seminary in New
York, 1893. He also studied at Oxford. In 1912, the University of the South awarded him an
honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for his major work on church history, The Historians and the
English Reformation. He was the author of fifteen books and numerous published articles,
sermons, and inspirational writings, including 500 Questions and Answers on Religion.
While serving the church in Buffalo, New York, he met and, in 1900, married Gertrude
Wilson (1877-1919), daughter of Walter Townsend Wilson and Jeanie Morse. The couple had
six children. From Buffalo, the family moved to Keene, New Hampshire, where John was
minister at St. James Church from 1906-1918. In 1918, he accepted the position of pastor of St.
James Church in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he served until 1929. Gertrude Wilson
Littell died during the flu epidemic in the winter of 1918-1919. In 1923, John married Estelle
Sherman (1889-1978). From 1929 until his death in 1932, he served the parishes of St. Peter’s,
in Lewes, and All Saints’ Mission, in nearby Rehoboth, Delaware.
Descendants of John Stockton Littell and Gertrude Wilson Littell
Thomas Gardiner Littell (II - 1903-1929), historian, writer, traveler, was the eldest son
of the Reverend John Stockton Littell (II) and Gertrude Wilson. A faithful daily diarist from the
age of thirteen, Gardiner recorded details of everyday life in the Littell family. He also recorded
his academic and intellectual endeavors, personal struggles, and his travels in Europe and the
United States. He attended Kent School, in Connecticut, and Harvard, where he initially
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entertained thoughts of studying chemistry in order to bridge what he perceived as a gap between
science and religious ministry. He eventually settled on history, which he studied with Arthur
M. Schlesinger. He died suddenly, at age twenty-six, just before receiving his Ph.D. in history
from Harvard.
Margaret Littell (1903-1990) graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music.
She studied piano with James Friskin at the Juilliard School, and with the French pianist, Emile
Baume. She also studied at the Tobias Matthay Music School in London. She was a frequent
recitalist at the Wilmington Music School, where she was a faculty member for many years.
Walter Wilson Littell (1910-1995) attended the Choir School of the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine in New York, and graduated from Yale in 1932. He spent several years teaching
in Hawaii before earning a master’s degree in education from Harvard. After teaching
mathematics and science for some years, he began working in the chemical industry. The family
genealogist, Walter helped to organize the Littell Families of America, Inc., and edited the new
Littell’s Living Age.
Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow, the youngest child of John Stockton and Gertrude
Wilson Littell, attended the Hannah More Academy in Reisterstown, Maryland. Jeanie and
Julian D. Winslow both graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1941, and married
the following December. Julian Winslow became a Wilmington, Delaware, lawyer with an
interest in local and family history. Julian and Jeanie Winslow have three children, Helen L.
Winslow, J. Dallas Winslow, Jr., and Mary Peters Winslow Reddick.
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Sources:
“Eliakim Littell,” in Malone, Dumas, ed. Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VI. New York:
Scribner, 1961.
Littell, John. Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and
vicinity), above Chatham. Feltville, NJ: Stationers' Hall Press, 1852.
“Thomas Willing,” retrieved March 18, 2002, and “Isaac Roberdeau,” retrieved April 9, 2002,
from American National Biography Online, http://www.anb.org
Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. III.
New York: Appleton, 1888.
Note: Additional biographical information is derived from the collection.
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Scope and Content Note
The Littell Family Papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace
books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books,
artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or
collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania
and Delaware from c. 1808 to 2004. The papers were a gift of Jeanie L. and Julian D. Winslow,
with an additional group of letters from Samuel M. Harrington. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow’s
great-grandfather, John Stockton Littell (I - 1806-1875), married into the Morris family of
Germantown, Pennsylvania, and her paternal grandmother, Helen Arcadia Littell, was a member
of the Harrington family of Dover, Delaware. The bulk of the collection comes from Morris,
Harrington, and Littell family members from about 1830 to 1930.
The collection is strong in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century social and cultural
history. It contains a variety of personal correspondence from male and female family members
who were active in literary and scientific pursuits, politics, law, the ministry, and the military. It
also contains significant examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century copybooks,
commonplace books, and diaries; early-nineteenth century literary publications; scientific
manuscripts, illustrations, and published articles by two nineteenth-century female scientists; and
materials on Episcopal Church history in the United States and China. The collection is a strong
source of information on family history and genealogy for the Delaware Valley area, revealed
through letters, clippings, family photographs, genealogical notes, and a unique lithographed
family tree.
The collection is organized around generations of family groups into eight series. Series
I through III contain the papers of the Morris, Harrington, and John Stockton Littell (I) families,
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respectively, and document how the families became interrelated. Series IV, V, and VI contain
the papers of several more generations of Littells, and of the Winslow family. Photographs and
postcards have been left separate in Series VII. Series VIII contains books and Series IX. has
realia.
Genealogical notes and clippings are scattered throughout the collection. Many family
members seem to have been aware of their family history and of the importance of preserving
historical materials for the next generation. For example, in 1839, Ann Willing Morris prepared
a copybook as a Christmas present for her daughter, Susan Littell. She included biographical
information about her ancestors and copied poems written by her grandmother, Anne Shippen
Willing (see F6). Researchers of Delaware Valley family history will find genealogical
notebooks on the Shippen, Morris, Littell, and Harrington families, as well as Townsend, Morse,
and Wilson families from New York State. The collection includes an extraordinary, oversized
Morris Family Tree, lithographed on linen, which charts several hundred years of family
genealogy (see F1 in oversize materials - mapcase). The Reverend John Stockton Littell (II) kept
notebooks on family genealogy (see F91). In the 1970s, his son, Walter Wilson Littell,
reincarnated Littell’s Living Age (see Biographical Note for Eliakim Littell, above) – the original
had ceased publication in the 1940s – as a family heritage and genealogical resource (see F34).
Series I, Morris family papers, primarily comprises copybooks, manuscripts, and
published articles written by Margaretta Hare Morris and her sister, Elizabeth Carrington Morris,
nineteenth-century scientists. The Morris sisters worked in the back garden of their home, now
known as the Morris-Littell House, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Commonplace books in
Series I contain botanical drawings by Margaretta and Elizabeth, as well as specimens of plants
that Elizabeth collected. Elizabeth Carrington Morris filled an album, titled “Contributions to
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the American Agriculturist” (see F18), with copies of articles signed “E.S.” The collection
contains Botany for Young People and Common Schools, by noted botanist Dr. Asa Gray,
inscribed to “Miss Morris with the Author’s best regards.”
Margaretta H. Morris was one of only a few female members of the Philadelphia
Academy of the Natural Sciences. Series I contains some of her notes in manuscript and
fragments of the Academy’s publication, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, dating from 1847, which mention her name and work on the seventeen-year
cicada. The American Agriculturist listed “M. H. Morris” in its “Index to Correspondents and
Illustrations” for 1847 and printed articles under that byline. [American Agriculturist (New
York: Harper & Bros.), Vol. VI, March, 1847.]
Series I includes three letters written to Elizabeth C. Morris by Mary Roberdeau, who
may have been the daughter of Isaac Roberdeau, the assistant designer of the city of Washington,
D. C.. Mary was staying at the White House during the administration of President John Quincy
Adams. Stamped “free,” and franked with Adams’ signature, these letters offer a young
woman’s eyewitness account of the daily habits of the Adams family and of Washington social
life in 1827-1828. The Morris sisters also corresponded with the social reformer and Civil War
nurse Dorothea Dix, two of whose letters are in this collection (see Series I, F8, and Series III,
F38).
The Morris Family Papers include two cross-stitch samplers, one with “S. Morris, 6”
across the top; several early-nineteenth-century copies of the Book of Common Prayer; a leatherbound volume, titled Letters from the Countess de Sancerre, published in 1767 and signed “Luke
Morris, Junr., 1785”; and a wooden cross given to Margaretta H. Morris by the reformer
Dorothea Dix. Most of these items are described in Series IX, Realia.
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The Morris family materials apparently came into the Littell family through Elizabeth
and Margaretta’s younger sister, Susan Sophia, who married John Stockton Littell in 1832.
Copybooks and commonplace books often reflect usage by multiple family members over
several generations. For example, Elizabeth C. Morris’ album, titled “Offerings of Friendship,”
(see F12), which was created between 1826 and 1864, was inscribed by T. Gardiner Littell in
1876. Many of the books contain popular poems, song lyrics, and original verse by various
members of the Morris and Littell families.
Series II contains papers of the Harringtons, a prominent nineteenth-century Delaware
family for whom the town of Harrington, Delaware, is named. The bulk of Series II contains
correspondence, dated from 1862 to 1878, between Purnell Frederick (Fred) Harrington, who
attended the United States Naval Academy and subsequently made a career of naval service, and
various members of his family. These letters, arranged chronologically and preserved in binders
by members of the Harrington and Littell families, include descriptions of training at the U. S.
Naval Academy; navy life; the progress of the Civil War in Delaware and elsewhere; and the
business and political activities of Fred’s brothers, Richard and Samuel Milby Harrington. Fred
fought on board the U.S.S. Monongahela in the Battle of Mobile Bay under Admiral Farragut in
August, 1864. One of his letters to his brother, Samuel Milby Harrington, dated July 17, 1864,
contains a diagram of the battle plan (see F21). Also included are courtship and love letters
saved by Fred’s wife, Maria (Mia) Ruán.
Fred’s father, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, who was Chancellor of Delaware in the late
1850s, is also well represented in this collection of letters. Personal correspondence with his
wife, Mary Lofland, daughters Mary E. and Lydia Harrington, and sister, Mary Raybold, detail
school and marriage arrangements, and reveal attitudes about social unrest and the political
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situation both before and during the Civil War. One letter is on Delaware Railroad stationery.
Although most of his letters are personal, he kept some copies of business correspondence. One
important item other than correspondence in Series II is a silver goblet presented by Delaware
College to Samuel Milby Harrington in 1856 as an award for the “Best Essay on Our Nation’s
Greatness.”
Series III contains papers of John Stockton Littell (I), his wife, Susan Morris Littell, and
their children (except T. Gardiner Littell (I), whose family papers form a separate series, Series
IV). Susan Littell’s scrapbooks contain correspondence and original scientific drawings by her
sisters, Elizabeth and Margaretta Morris. John Stockton Littell (I) contributed original poems
and song lyrics. Some of these may have appeared in The Clay Minstrel, a collection of Whig
songs dedicated to Henry Clay, which John Stockton Littell (I) edited. Two copies of that book,
one a first edition inscribed to Susan S. M. Littell, are included in the collection.
Also in Series III is a letter to Susan Littell from Dorothea Dix, dated 1867, containing a
scrap of ribbon in the form of a tiny American flag. A scrapbook belonging to Harriet Hare
Littell includes autographs of José Vargas, president of Venezuela in 1835-1836, and the author
Washington Irving. Finally, Series III contains items published by E. (Eliakim) Littell, John’s
older brother, including Literary Portfolio, the Philadelphia Mail, both from 1830, and Littell’s
Living Age, dated 1879-1881.
Series IV, the Reverend T. Gardiner Littell (I) family papers, reveals the beginning of the
Littell family’s active involvement in the Episcopal ministry. Littell men over several
generations became leading Episcopal ministers, and Littell women were also active in the
church. T. Gardiner Littell (I), Susan and John S. Littell’s (I) younger son, was the first of this
branch of the Littell family to be ordained, but Susan apparently was quite committed to the
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faith, as a letter to her other son, Charles Willing Littell, indicates. In it (see F 38), she explains
why she feels he should complete his education at Episcopal Burlington College, and not at
“sectarian” Yale.
Series IV contains several scrapbooks and old account books that Gardiner Littell (I)
recycled as scrapbooks for religious clippings. His correspondence includes letters from A. Felix
du Pont at St. John’s Church in Wilmington, Delaware. Other items of interest in Series IV
include record books of investments made by Gardiner Littell (I) for his family and for church
work. He apparently held mortgages and made loans as a way of investing money left to him by
his sister, Harriet Hare Littell. These financial records contain examples of early-twentiethcentury stock certificates; receipts from businesses in the Wilmington, Delaware, area; and real
estate information for properties in Wilmington. In 1885, Delaware College awarded an
honorary Doctor of Divinity to Gardiner Littell (I). The original certificate of this degree is
included in the collection along with materials on the fiftieth commencement exercises of the
college.
Several of Gardiner and Helen Littell’s children became active in church ministry. Their
second son, the Reverend Samuel Harrington Littell (“Harrington”), worked as a Chinese
missionary during the early twentieth century, eventually becoming Bishop of Hawaii. Series IV
contains clippings and letters describing missionary life in China, written by and about
Harrington. When Harrington’s first wife died, his sister, Helen Arcadia Littell, traveled to
China to help Harrington with his children. Her letters from China to her sister, Mary, describe
her impressions of Chinese life and culture in the early twentieth century. Clippings about
Harrington’s descendants reveal the continuity of their church involvement.
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The papers of the eldest son of Gardiner and Helen Littell, the Reverend John Stockton
Littell (II), comprise Series V. The collection contains several of his fifteen published books,
one complete manuscript of 500 Questions and Answers on Religion, and numerous published
sermons and articles. An autograph book and samples of his student work survive from his days
at the Rugby Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, in the late 1880s. Correspondence between
him and Gertrude Wilson (1877-1919), of Buffalo, whom he married in 1900, chronicle their
ultimately successful efforts to overcome her family’s resistance to their marriage, revealing
elements of turn-of-the-century social tensions. A caption written by a family member on
Gertrude’s wedding photograph indicates that her gown has been preserved at a Buffalo
museum. Social invitations, calling cards, clippings, and an elaborate commemorative book
from the wedding illuminate the family’s social status. Genealogical information on the Wilson
family and their ancestors is included, as well as a letter c. 1870 to “Jennie [Jeanie] Morse.”
Gertrude Wilson and John Stockton Littell (II) had six children. Some of their letters and
artwork are preserved, as well as photographs depicting family activities. Their eldest daughter,
Margaret Littell (1903-1990), became a concert pianist who taught at the Wilmington [Delaware]
Music School. Series V includes some of her letters, recital programs, reviews, and news
clippings.
Series V.1 contains diaries and papers belonging to John Stockton (II) and Gertrude
Littell’s eldest son, T. Gardiner Littell (II - 1902-1929). An avid diarist, Gardiner Littell (II)
wrote almost daily from the age of thirteen until his premature death at the age of twenty-six.
His twenty-three volumes of diaries, covering the years 1915 through 1929, present the world
through the eyes of a young man whose wide-ranging concerns included religion, philosophy,
nature, history, and international politics. The diarist was very concerned from a young age with
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the world situation, frequently commenting on World War I, the League of Nations, labor
struggles, injustice, Bolshevism, and other subjects of international interest. He was also
preoccupied with his own growth and development and the contribution he sought to make in the
world. He recorded funny anecdotes, such as what happened when someone spilled popcorn in
the pancake batter (see Vol. XX, p. 47, F136). Early diaries (see F116 through F121) reveal
family life, religious involvement, and student life at the Kent School in New Milford,
Connecticut. Later diaries reflect the maturing boy’s intellectual and spiritual growth, which he
expressed in music and art criticism, in his deepening understanding of international political
economy, and in his increasingly sophisticated writing style. With Volume IX, Gardiner appears
to have made a distinction between a “journal” for personal reflection and a “notebook,” which
records activities and studies during an overlapping time period. (See Vol. IX, F126 and Vol. X,
F127.) In 1927, Gardiner and his younger brother Walter drove across the United States, a trip
described in Volumes XIX and XX, and documented in a clipping from the Hartford Times
(F135). Also included are papers from his student days at Harvard, and a letter of condolence
from Arthur M. Schlesinger, Harvard professor of history, dated 1929, to John Stockton Littell
(II), mourning the loss of a bright young mind in the early death of Gardiner Littell (II).
Walter Wilson Littell (1910-1995), the Littell’s second son, preserved much of the family
genealogical information and kept his own research notes. These have been kept separately, in
the order received, in Subseries V.2, along with copies of Littell’s Living Age, Section 2, the
genealogy publication of the organization Walter founded, Littell Families of America.
Series VI, Winslow Family Papers, contains two subseries. Series VI.1 contains papers
belonging to Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow, including a scrapbook and photographs from her
European trip in the 1930s; invitations, cards, programs; clippings about the couple’s children,
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one of whom, Dallas Winslow, served as a state representative in Delaware. Also included are
drafts toward Jeanie Winslow’s book of poetry, Finding Poetry in Every Day Life (2002).
Series VI.2 is composed of research notes on Delaware history compiled over a period of
years by Julian D. Winslow, toward several books, including Samuel Maxwell Harrington: a
Pioneer Judge (Vantage, 1994) and Sussex Awakens to the Toot (Julian D. Winslow, 1999). The
series also includes a small group of personal papers, with correspondence, a passport, and his
work on the family genealogical records. The remaining subseries are family papers related to
Julian and Jeanie Winslow’s children, Dallas, Mary, and Helen.
Series VII contains a collection of postcards, mostly unwritten, from Winslow family
trips. Most depict vacation and historic sites within the United States, including a number of
Delaware attractions. There are also some postcards from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
These have been arranged by locality in two boxes. A third box of postcards were collected by
Margaret Littell and include a numbered series of images from a European tour, images of works
of art, images of Keene, New Hampshire (including photograph post cards), as well as a few
postcards sent by Mary Morris Littell and cards sent to sisters, Margaret and Mary Littell.
Series VII also contains family photographs from c. 1850-1975. They have been
arranged according to family groupings similar to the arrangement of the papers. Members of
the John Stockton Littell (I) family were photographed by Cummings in Wilmington, Broadbent
in Philadelphia, and by D. Hinkle of Germantown. A portrait of Susan Sophia Morris Littell,
taken by Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, of Philadelphia, is preserved in a carved and painted
veneer wooden frame labeled “Thornton’s Picture Frame and Looking Glass Depot,”
Philadelphia. An outdoor Harrington family photograph depicts a man in uniform, possibly P. F.
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Harrington, and clothing characteristic of the early 1860s. Another is captioned, “P. F.
Harrington at the World War Monument, 1935.”
Photographs of the T. Gardiner Littell (I) family include professional portraits by J. Paul
Brown of Wilmington, Delaware, c. 1860, and a rare portrait of a family nanny, by Bucher, of
Wilmington, Delaware, c. 1880. Mementos from the family trip to Europe in 1894 include two
pictures of dogs. One is a portrait, labeled “Jock,” taken by W. Forshaw of Oxford, England.
The other is a Swiss postcard photograph depicting St. Bernards. Snapshots depict automobile
trips and hiking, leisure activities that were central to the family during coming generations.
Samuel Harrington Littell, who became Bishop of Hawaii, is shown in an 1889 photograph of
the graduating class of the George Fox Martin School in West Philadelphia. Also included are
photographs of his family and their residence in Hawaii, c. 1930.
The John Stockton (II) family photographs include some portraits of the ancestors of
Gertrude Wilson Littell, John’s first wife. These include members of the Morse and Wilson
families. Researchers of turn-of-the-century formal clothing may be interested in two
photographs of Gertrude Wilson, one depicting her debutante dress, and the other of her
elaborate wedding dress. The bulk of these photographs are snapshots depicting the family in
leisure activities. There are photographic postcards with scenes of the Delaware resort towns,
Rehoboth Beach, and Lewes, in the 1930s. Margaret Littell, Wilmington pianist and music
instructor, is pictured at the piano in two photographs.
Series VIII consists of twenty-eight nineteenth and twentieth century books, most of
which belonged to members of the Littell, with a few originally belonging to Morris family
members. For a complete list of the books see Appendix B.
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Realia, found in Series IX, comprises over one hundred items originally belonging to the
Morris, Morse, Littell, Harrington, and Winslow families. Appendix D lists the pieces of realia
which have been identified as originally belonging to particular families. A complete list,
arranged in item number order, is found in the body of the finding aid, with a detailed description
of each item.
The items of realia consist of a variety of family heirlooms, including artifacts of
historical interest, such as a pendant fashion from a piece of the first transatlantic cable, bullets
fired during the revolutionary war, wainscoting from the house of William Penn, wood from the
coffin of George Washington, a small beaded cross from Dorothea Dix, paper currency from the
Revolutionary and Civil War time periods, and grains of barley from Pompeii. The realia also
encompasses items which reflect family interests, for example antique eyeglasses, carved ivory,
calling card cases, Chinese embroidered slippers, playing cards, cross stitch on linen samplers,
and antique children’s toys.
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Series List
Page
I.
Morris Family Papers, 1808-1865
23
II.
Harrington Family Papers, c. 1820-1964
25
III.
John Stockton Littell (1806-1875) Family Papers
26
IV.
T. Gardiner Littell (1837-1911) Family Papers
28
V.
John Stockton Littell (1870-1932) Family Papers
31
1.
2.
3.
31
33
36
VI.
John Stockton Littell (1870-1932)
Thomas Gardiner Littell (1902-1929) Papers
Walter Wilson Littell (1910-1995) Genealogy Notes
Winslow Family Papers
37
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
37
38
41
41
41
Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers
Julian D. Winslow Research Notes
Helen L. Winslow
J. Dallas Winslow, Jr.
Mary Peters Winslow Reddick
VII.
Photographs and Postcards
42
VIII.
Books
47
IX.
Realia
48
Appendix A: Geneaological Charts
63
Appendix B: Postcard Collection
68
Appendix C: Bibliography of Books
72
Appendix D: Realia listed by Family
75
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Box
Folder
1
Description
Series I. Morris Family Papers, 1808-1865
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10
Genealogical information
Morris, Anthony. Morris Family Tree. Philadelphia: Bourquin and Company,
1861. Linen, 72” l x 59” w. “Contains more than 3,000 names and is said to be
one of the most complete in existence.” Negative also available
Thomas Willing genealogy, 1786, Transcript, 2 copies, 1985
Account of Thomas Willing’s “family and stock from which I am descended,”
transcribed by Walter Wilson Littell, two typed copies.
Willing marriages and births, undated
Photocopies of handwritten record of marriages and births pertaining to the
Willing, Carrington, and Alleyne families.
Extract of letter from General Wayne, c. 1850
Handwritten copy of part of a letter from Gen. Wayne to Col. Johnston, originally
dated 1730, by unidentified copyist.
Ann Willing Morris, 1767-1853
Copybook, “Ann W Morris G’Town March 19 1813”
Copies of poems, prayers, biblical passages, in a paper covered notebook; also
includes recipes for lip salve, plasters, and ointment.
“Christmas Offering,” 1839
A copybook presented from Ann to her daughter, containing poems written by
Ann’s mother, and information about her Shippen and Willing ancestors.
Margaretta Hare Morris, 1791-1867
“Copies for Her by JSL, ECM, & By Herself,” c. 1820s
Labeled “favorite poems, etc.,” this marbled paper-covered copybook in poor
condition contains many items laid in, including a short story by unidentified
author.
Letters, c. 1830-1850
Includes a letter from Dorothea Dix, n.d. (see Box 26 in vault), and one c. 1830s,
signed M. Hammer, that describes Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel
Webster speaking in the Senate.
Manuscripts on cicada, c. 1840s
Portions of Margaret’s handwritten notes and articles
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1846-1849
Includes a portion of Number 6, December, 1846; Volume III, March and April,
1847; and a portion of Volume IV, Number 10, August 1849, which contain
letters by Margaret about the cicada.
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Box
Folder
Description
Series I. Morris Family Papers (cont’d)
1
F11
F12
F13
F14
F15
F16
F17
F18
F19
Elizabeth Carrington Morris, 1795-1865
Letters from Mary Roberdeau, 1827-1828
Three items, dated May 26, 1827, July 5, 1827, January 3, 1828, and, stamped
“Free” and franked with the signature of John Quincy Adams.
“Offerings of Friendship,” 1826-1864
Includes calligraphy, watercolors, sketches, a poem handwritten by Dorothea Dix,
and other original and copied writing.
Copybook, 1829-1831
Marbled cover, fragile condition, with hand-numbered pages, inscribed “Elizabeth
C. Morris, Germantown, 1829, A thing of shreds and patches”; contains copies
and original writing, in French and English; puzzles and acrostics; drawings; and
observations on people the author admires, such as Dorothea Dix.
Copybook, 1832-1856
Inscribed “A Thing of Shreds and Patches,” “Elizabeth C. Morris, January, 1832”;
contains letters, a map, an index and hand-numbered pages.
Items removed from copybook, 1832-1856
Between Pages 188-189
Several verses meant to be copied into book, parlor games, magic tables,
miniature verse booklet by John Stockton Littell (I).
Copybook, “Elizabeth C. Morris, January 1857,” 1857-1864
Marble cover, fragile condition, many items laid in.
Notebook from Harriet C. Hare, 1835-1865
Includes original pencil, watercolor, botanical, and architectural drawings, copied
and original poems (one handwritten by Dorothea Dix) and essays by members of
the Morris and Littell families.
Contributions to the American Agriculturist, 1844-1847
Articles copied or written by Elizabeth C. Morris for submission to the magazine;
various domestic subjects including “Making Butter,” “The Garden,” “Lard
Lamps,” and “Love Me, Love My Dog.” Most are signed “E. S.”
Susan Sophia Morris, 1800-1868
Letter from Eliza Powell, 1822
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Box
Folder
1
Series II. Harrington Family Papers, 1821-1964 (Bulk dates 1850-1878)
F20
F21
F22
F23
2
Description
F24
F25
F26
F27
F28
F29
Harrington Family Letters, 1821-1878
Primarily personal letters and correspondence of Samuel Maxell Harrington
(1802-1865), Chancellor of Delaware, and of his son, Purnell Frederick (P. F.)
Harrington (1844-1937). The letters were kept in the family of P.F. Harrington
and organized in chronological order by his grandson, Samuel M. Harrington.
Harrington family letters, 1821-1863
Letters to and from Samuel Maxwell Harrington, and family members. Subjects
include Civil War news; political violence in Delaware; a real estate sale, 1821,
by Sheriff Richard Harrington, father of Samuel Maxwell Harrington.
Harrington family letters, 1864-1867
Correspondence between Samuel Maxwell Harrington and his sons, Samuel
Milby Harrington (1840-1878) and Ensign P. F. Harrington, describing Ensign
Harrington's life in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War; one includes descriptions
of the battle of Mobile Bay.
Samuel Maxwell Harrington, 1865
Typed transcriptions of three letters written by Samuel M. Harrington to son,
Fred, in 1865.
Harrington family letters, 1868
Primarily letters by P. F. Harrington to Maria N. Ruán during their courtship.
Includes some of their correspondence with other family members.
Harrington family letters, 1869-1873
P. F. Harrington to Maria N. Ruán Harrington from onboard various U.S. Navy
ships; letters written by Samuel Milby Harrington to P. F. and Maria Harrington,
as well as two letters from George Nelthrupp.
Harrington family letters, 1877-1878
Samuel Milby Harrington to his brother and sister-in-law, P. F. and Maria Ruán
Harrington, plus P. F.’s letters to Maria and a letter from V. E. Ridgely.
Helen Arcadia Harrington, “Album of Love,” 1861-1871
Autograph album with signatures of family members and friends.
Samuel Milby Harrington
Silver goblet presented for “Best Essay on Our Nation's Greatness,” 1856
In Memoriam Samuel Milby Harrington. Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., 1878.
With note laid in, “Uncle Fred’s brother or my grandmother Helen Arcadia
Harrington's brother,” plus a photograph of Samuel Milby Harrington.
Genealogy materials
Genealogical information on Harrington family members including clippings on
“Forgotten Heroes,” materials from the Harrington Historical Society and
information on family tombs in old cemetery, Dover, Delaware, c. 1900.
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Box
Folder
2
Description
Series III. John Stockton Littell (1806-1875) Family Papers, 1826-1895
F30
F31
F32A
F32B
F32C
F32D
F32E
F33
F34
Eliakim Littell, 1797-1870
Literary Port Folio, 1830
Published by “E. Littell & Brother” nos. 1 through 20, fragile condition. In a
folder advertising “A New Annual for 1829. The Gem”
Philadelphia Mail and Universal Literary and General Advertiser, 1830
Advertising circular primarily for E. Littell publications, but containing
advertisements solicited from other publishers and businesses. Published weekly,
and distributed free to 25,000 people throughout four quarters of the U. S.
Le Courrier des Etats-Unis, New York, 1828
Political and literary journal, in French, with “Miss S. S. Morris” handwritten at
the top of front page. Perhaps saved by member of Morris family, but descended
together with E. Littell material.
To the Federalists, 1828 Aug 20
Pamphlet, print no. 97 by the Philadelphia Gazette which bears handwritten “J. S.
Littell” (I) on the front page.
Newspapers and tear sheets, 1826-1935
Includes The Clay Bugle (1844 Jan 1 and Jan 18), The Village Record or Chester
and Delaware Federalist ( 1826 Mar 29), National Gazette and Literary Register
(1827 Nov 24), Portsmouth Evening News – Silver Jubilee Naval Register (1935),
and tear sheets (1828-1859). Removed to oversize
The Ulster County Gazette, 1800 Jan 4
Reprint with clipping and information. Removed to oversize
Public Ledger (Philadelphia), 1836 Mar 25
Removed to oversize
The Yankee; and Boston Literary Gazette, January 22, 1829
An arts and literature review (has a quote by Jeremy Bentham in the masthead),
published by James Adams, Jr., Boston. This issue contains the second half of a
review of Remember Me, published by E. Littell in 1829.
Littell’s Living Age, 1879-1881
A weekly magazine published by Littell & Co., Boston, containing reprints of
fiction and nonfiction articles from American and European publications such as
Nineteenth Century, Blackwood's, and Saturday Review, by such authors as
Thomas Hardy and W. E. Gladstone. Five issues, nos. 1825, 1849, 1888, 1890,
and 1907, in fragile condition, with address label on each front cover, “1130 Mrs.
M W Dobbin, 158 W Biddle St.”
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Box
Folder
Description
Series III. John Stockton Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)
2
F35
F36
F37
F38
Susan Sophia Morris Littell, 1800-1868
Scrapbook, 1825-1860
Contains Shippen family genealogy; letters from sister Margaretta Morris about
Harper's Ferry and slaves; certificate from Constitutional Union Party
Convention, 1860, signed by John S. Littell (I), President of the Pennsylvania
Convention; notebook belonging to Littell, c. 1830s. Many fragile items of
copied and original writing and artwork or correspondence are laid in.
“Susan S. Morris's Album & Scrapbook,” 1826-1860
Begun by Susan Morris in 1826, this book was continued by her after her
marriage to John Stockton Littell (I) in 1832. Includes original poems, song
lyrics, and some artwork by Littell and Morris family members
“The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures,” 1837
Written by John Payne Morris, Esq., this book is inscribed “Mrs. Susan S. M.
Littell, from her affectionate son, T. G. Littell (I), Christmas Day, 1853”
Letters, 1850, 1867
Letter (1867) from Dorothea Dix, contains a tiny American flag (removed to vault
Box 26 item #47). The second letter is from Susan Sophia Morris Littell to her
son, Charles Willing Littell, containing political news and advice about college.
John Stockton Littell (I), 1806-1875
F39A U. S. President Millard Fillmore letter to John S. Littell (I), 1855 Mar 17
ALS, 4pp. Removed to vault – Box 26 item #48B
F39B Miscellaneous papers, copies, c. 1850
Contains clippings and copies of obituaries for Squier Littell, 1886, and Meta
Morris Littell, John and Helen Littell’s youngest daughter, who died in 1848, plus
a document for a burial lot in St. Luke’s Church, Germantown (1865)
F39C Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, 1849 Jul 20
Printed text of a 4th of July address by J. S. Littell (I). Removed to oversize
F40 Burlington College commencement address, 1853
Contains printed copy of the address, “Portrait of Bishop Doane,” published in
1859, and a clipping about the commencement
F41 “Rhymes No.__ for Harriet,” 1826-1875
Original poems by John Stockton Littell (I); letter dated 1875, clipping
F42 John Stockton Littell (I) copybook, 1825-1826
Marbled leather binding, good condition, containing original and copied poetry
F43 Littell/Morris wedding announcements and obituary, 1832, 1868
Clippings from the National Gazette and Literary Register
F44 Copies of letters and genealogy, 1824, 1847
F45 “Early History of the Church in New York City,” 1869
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Box
Folder
Series III. John Stockton Littell Family Papers (cont’d)
2
F46
3
Description
F47
F48
Harriet Hare Littell, 1835-1885
“Album of Gems,” 1858-1868
Leather and mother-of-pearl album inscribed to “Harriet H. Littell, from her Mother,
Christmas, 1858[?].” Many items laid in including scrap of blue beaded material
(perhaps part of a vestment), cards with Chinese and English writing
Copybook/scrapbook, c. 1830-1876
Includes clippings of engravings, some published by E. Littell; original and
copied poems, stories, quotations assembled and written by members of the
Morris and Littell families, given to Harriet Hare Littell in 1876; some original
artwork; many items laid in, including pages from “George Cruikshank's
Omnibus: A Vehicle for Fun and Frolic,” clippings from “Godey's Ladies Book,”
and clippings about actors and plays.
Scrapbook, c. 1830-1876
Contains autographs of Jose Vargas, President of Venezuela, Washington Irving,
Sir Robert Ker Porter, and Oliver Hazard Perry; clippings of engravings published
by E. Littell; original poetry by John S. Littell; clipping about Great Sanitary Fair
in Philadelphia, 1864. Given to Harriet Hare Littell in 1876
F49
Charles Willing Littell, 1855, 1895
Contains receipt for his law studies paid by John Stockton Littell (I)(1855) and an
obituary (1895)
F50
Biographical information on John Stockton Littell (I) family, 1887
Contains pages copied from Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography,
Who’s Who in America, and a typewritten biography of John Stockton Littell (I),
probably compiled by Walter Wilson Littell.
Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) (1837-1911) Family Papers,
1855-1998 (bulk dates 1855-1925)
F51
F52
F53
T. Gardiner Littell (I), 1837-1911
“Burlington College Celebration,” 1855
A complete copy of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, February 26, 1855, containing a
front-page article about the annual Washington's Birthday celebration at
Burlington College, featuring a speech by student T. Gardiner Littell (I)
Correspondence, 1858-1909
Includes a letter from A. Felix du Pont concerning St. John’s Church,
Wilmington, DE
Ordination to the Episcopal priesthood, 1859
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Box
Folder
Description
Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)
T. Gardiner Littell (I) (cont’d)
3
F54
F55
F56
F57
F58
F59
F60
F61
F62
F63
F64
4
F65
F66
F67
“Scrap Book 1,” c. 1854-1870
Given to T. Gardiner Littell (I) by Elizabeth Carrington Morris in 1856, this
scrapbook contains clippings and copies of poems and quotations, mostly of a
religious nature.
“Scrap Book 2,” c. 1870-1900
Clippings on religious subjects pasted over an old account book.
St. John's Church, Wilmington, DE, 1866-1894
Clippings and ephemera, including a “List of Saloon Passengers” aboard Cunard
Line's R.M.S. Etruria, 1894
Delaware College Honorary Doctor of Divinity certificate, 1885
Includes clipping about 50th commencement exercises at Delaware College,
which mentions President Purnell, and Victor B. Woolley, class of 1885, who
later became a prominent Delaware judge.
Copies of letters to F. G. du Pont, 1884-1904
Originals are in the du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum and Library.
Printed sermons and publications, c. 1880-1908
Real estate transactions, c. 1885-1911
Leather bound alphabetical notebook listing names, prices, interest rates, and
descriptions of Wilmington properties on which T. Gardiner Littell (I) held
mortgages. Handwritten notes show that some properties were foreclosed, some
sold, and some paid off and money reinvested.
Record of securities deposited at Fidelity Bank, New York, NY, c. 1900-1909
Received income, 1902-1911
“1904 Income,” 1904-1912
Records of real estate, stock and other financial transactions representing income
for T. Gardiner Littell (I). Many items laid in including receipts from Cities
Service, American Light & Traction, and two Wilmington, DE, companies (Cold
Spring Ice and Coal, and Biddle Brothers Practical Plumbers); correspondence
from Henry Hoopes Real Estate and Mortgages; rent statements for four
Wilmington properties.
Financial notebook, “Book 4,” 1910-1925
Includes records of rents, stocks, insurance, monthly family bills, and
correspondence from and about T. Gardiner Littell’s (I) children, Elton, Helen,
and Mary, who continued the notebook after his death.
Letters from George Elliott, Attorney, 1906-1910
Fiftieth anniversary of ordination, 1909
Clippings and articles from The Delaware Churchman
Obituaries, 1911
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Box
Folder
Description
Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)
T. Gardiner Littell (I) (cont’d)
4
F68
F69
F70
F71
F72
F73
F74
F75
F76
F77
F78
F79
F80
F81
Indentures and deed, 1899, 1911, 1912
Papers on three properties owned by T. Gardiner Littell (I)
Sons of American Revolution, 1934
Copy of officers’ list of the Delaware Society, listing T. Gardiner Littell (I) as
chaplain
Church of the Holy Trinity, Jefferson, NY, 1959-1960
Typewritten notes and copy of the booklet
History of Christ Church, Dover, DE, 1985
Paper bulletin with historical information on previous pastors, lists T. Gardiner
Littell (I) for 1865-1866
Helen Harrington Littell, 1848-1924
Letters, 1866-1872
Papers and obituaries, c. 1860s-1924
Includes marriage certificate of Helen Arcadia Harrington and T. Gardiner Littell
(I), 1867, wedding invitations, and one letter from her mother, Mary L.
Harrington.
Helen A. and Mary M. Littell
English cathedrals, 1898
Scrapbook containing photographs purchased on their European trip.
Art history, 1901
Notebook assembled by Mary on art history, mostly religious, beginning with
ancient Egypt and continuing through nineteenth-century American painting, with
notes on artists and pictures of their works.
Letters from China, from Helen to Mary, 1914-1915
“China’s Ancient Medical Practice,” 1933
Typewritten manuscript in notebook, titled “China’s Ancient Medical Practice.
Current Events – New Century Club Nov. 14th, 1933.”
Helen Arcadia Littell obituaries, 1934
Mary Morris Littell’s application to Colonial Dames of America, 1929
Mary Morris Littell miscellaneous papers, c. 1897-1984
Nine items, including a letter from the Bishop of Delaware, 1945; an 1897
Christmas card; copy of The Diocese of Delaware, Plans for Tomorrow with an
article about Mary; obituaries.
Notebook of accounts, 1952-1958
Probably a household account book belonging to Mary.
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Box
Folder
Description
Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)
4
F82
F83
F84
F85
F86
F87
F88
Elton Gardiner Littell
Letters and stock certificates, 1912-1923
Obituaries, 1962
Samuel Harrington Littell
Ethel Harrington postcard, 1888
Postcard to Harrington Littell from his cousin, the daughter of Adm. P. F.
Harrington.
Biographical information, 1934-1991
Clippings, typewritten notes, and printed items.
Letters to Winslows, 1959-1963
Family letters and clippings, 1921-1998
Includes postcards from, printed items, and clippings about Harrington Littell and
his family.
Rev. Edward M. Littell biography by J. D. Winslow, n.d.
Edward M. Littell is the son of S. Harrington Littell.
Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) (1870-1932) Family Papers,
1883-1990
F89
F90
F91
F92
F93
F94
Series V.1. John Stockton Littell (II)
Autograph book, 1883-1886
Rugby Academy compositions, 1885-1886
Leather-bound notebook of family genealogy, c. 1910
Notebook of religious art, c. 1900
“500 Questions and Answers in Religion: Memory Gems,” manuscript, n.d.
Published articles, 1911, 1931
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Box
Folder
Description
Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) Family Papers (cont’d)
SeriesV.1. John Stockton Littell (II) (cont’d)
4
F95
F96
F97
F98
F99
F100
Historical work, [n.d.]
Contains an advertisement, with review comments, for The Historians and the
English Reformation
Scrapbook of documents, programs, ephemera and clippings related to John S.
Littell, 1840-1932
The inscription on the front page reads: “To Bea and family, Merry Christmas,
1976, from Dad [Walter Littell] – This scrapbook is one of three made up of
material mostly from the scrapbook of my father, John Stockton Littell II. The
first few pages contain items from an old trunk from the house of Elton Gardiner
Littell, originally from the house of Thomas Gardiner Littell I of Yonkers, N. Y.”
Also includes notes about missing items. Documents include etymological papers
by Margaretta Hare Morris and letters, school reports, a penmanship book (1878),
clippings, and documents from the 1840s-1860s related to John S. Littell (I). The
bulk of the scrapbook contains documents and clippings related to John S. Littell
(II), including college and seminary programs and papers, a photograph, letters,
travel ephemera, printed items about the churches he served, and documents from
his consecration as bishop of Honolulu in 1930. Removed to Box 28
Clippings and copies re: wedding, ordination, and career, c. 1893-1930
Obituaries, 1932
Letters to and from family and friends, c. 1890-1931
John Stockton (II) and Gertrude Wilson Littell correspondence, 1899-1904
Gertrude Wilson Littell, 1877-1919
F101 Letters to and from parents and family, c. 1889-1912
Contains a postcard about the 1893 Centennial Exposition in Chicago
F102 Valentine for Gertrude, c. 1890s
An unusual combination of verse and clippings of advertisements for patent
medicines, from Gertrude’s sister, Margaret.
F103 Wedding invitation and calling card, c. 1900
F104 “Our Wedding Souvenir,” 1900
F105 Daughters of the American Revolution papers (copies), 1974
F106 Obituary, 1919
F107 Letter to Jennie [Jeanie] Morse, c. 1870
F108 Wilson family, c. 1895-1900
Typewritten transcriptions of letters from Margaret Wilson; fragment of
Gertrude’s music book
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Box
4
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Description
Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) Family Papers (cont’d)
Series V.1. John Stockton Littell (II) (cont’d)
F109 Littell Children letters and art, c. 1910s
Margaret Littell
See also the postcards in Box 16
F110 Letters from family, c. 1920-1932
F111 Recital programs, clippings, letters, 1941-1990
Includes an appraisal of family heirlooms
F112 Gertrude Littell and daughter, Christine Littell Adler, 1963-2003
Includes a copy of Elton G. Littell’s will
F113 John Stockton Littell (II) and Estelle Sherman Littell wedding invitation, 1924
F114 Miscellaneous papers, clippings, and cards, 1895-1967
Includes clippings, cards, and a typewritten memoir by Helen Littell Derbyshire.
Also includes genealogical research regarding the Littell, Morse, Stockton, and
Thomas Willing families.
F115 Unidentified ephemera, [n.d.]
Three items, including a small watercolor portrait of an unidentified man; a lacetrimmed, hand-colored card bearing the name, “Johnnie”; and an embossed card
Series V.2. T. Gardiner Littell (II) Diaries and Papers, 1915-1929
This series includes Gardiner Littell’s twenty-three volumes of diaries, which he
began at age thirteen and kept daily until his death at age twenty-six, as well as
some of his student papers from Harvard. In the diaries, Gardiner recorded
detailed descriptions of his everyday life, with comments on family, the Church,
his reading, games, sports, vacations, food, and more, all set in the context of
national and international events.
Diaries
F116 Volume I, “Keene (Chesham, White Mts.), Kent (War),” 1915-1918
Brown paper covered “Students Note Book.” Notation in front reads “Diary of
Gardiner Littell. Copied from old miscellaneous diaries. January first, 1915, to
September, 1918.”
F117 Volume I.A. “For the Winter and Spring terms, 1919”
Red cloth covered “Memorandum” notebook describes how Gardiner, at age
sixteen, coped with the death of his mother, Gertrude Wilson Littell, during the
influenza epidemic of 1919.
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Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) Family Papers (cont’d)
Series V.2. T. Gardiner Littell (II) Diaries and Papers (cont’d)
Diaries (cont’d)
5
F118 Volume II, “Kent (Keene, New York, Great War),” 1917-1918
F119 Volume III, Untitled, 1918-1920
Brown marbled paper covered notebook with numbered pages and a table of
contents includes clippings of articles written for the Kent School News.
F120 Volume III, “West Hartford, Indian Neck,” Jun-Jul, 1919
He describes seeing airplanes for the first time, “Bolshevists,” and his summer
work as a farm laborer and factory hand.
F121 Volume IV, “Kent,” Sep-Dec, 1919
F122 Volume V, “Supplementary to five year Diary,” Aug-Dec, 1920
Describes his first days at Harvard, and his adviser’s admiration of Littell’s
“Living Age”
F123 Volume VI, “Harvard, West Hartford, Supplementary to Five Year Diary,”
1922an-Sep
Decisions about a major at Harvard, feeling left out, religious convictions, loving
David Copperfield
F124 Volume 7, “Note Book, 1921”
Working and living at the Liberal Club, trouble with roommates
F125 Volume VIII, “Journal, Harvard College, West Hartford, Choconut Camp,
1922 Jan-Oct
Indian mysticism, feminism, music, writing for the Crimson. See also F143,
“Harvard Crimson Editorials.”
F126 Volume IX, “Journal, Vol. IX, Oct. 7, 1922 To Aug. 8, 1923”
Includes notes on hearing the pianist Paderewski play, and socialist Eugene Debs
speak; comments on labor struggles, politics, and sky writing; father’s
engagement to Ethel Sherman; attending and working at the Episcopalian
Conference at Silver Bay
F127 Volume X, “Notebook, Silver Bay, on Lake George, Summer of 1923”
Comments on President Harding’s death, (August 3 entry); reconciling religious
belief with scientific study (August 27)
F128 Volume XI, “Harvard College Note Book, Senior Year, Miscellaneous,”
1923-1924
F129 Volume XII, “Journal, Silver Bay, 1924”
Death of grandmother, Helen Arcadia Harrington Littell, September 9; working as
waiter and dishwasher at the conference center; receives diploma from Harvard.
F130 Volume XIII, “Harvard Graduate School,” Sep, 1924-Feb, 1925
Professor Arthur Schlesinger’s course taught in the “German style”
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Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) Family Papers (cont’d)
Series V.2. T. Gardiner Littell (II) Diaries and Papers (cont’d)
Diaries (cont’d)
5
F131 Volume XV, “England, Paris, Séez,” Jun-Sep, 1925
Harvard finals exams; train trip to Montreal; boards the Oxonian, bound for
Liverpool, a tramp steamer on which students work for their passage by feeding
and watering 800 steer; travels and study in Europe
F132 Volume XVI, “Travels,” Sep, 1925-Mar, 1926
Bound, paper cover labeled “IRA déposé”; travel and study in Avignon,
Marseilles, in Italy, and at the Sorbonne
F133 Volume XVII, “Travels,” Mar-Sep, 1926
Table of contents identifies itinerary: Orvieto, Rome, Switzerland, Vosges,
Strasbourg, Paris, New York, West Hartford, and Huntingdon, Long Island; pages
numbered by hand; September 13 letter, pasted in, mentions the inventor of
women’s bicycles, Harold Brown; difficulty finding a teaching job; tutoring a
nine-year-old
F134 Volume XVIII, “Hoosac School,” Sep, 1926-Apr, 1927
Table of contents and hand-numbered pages; tutoring; lands job teaching at a
private boys’ school in Hoosick, New York; writing “Littell News.”
F135 Volume XIX, “Hoosac School, Western Trip,” Apr-Aug, 1927
Contains table of contents, numbered pages, many items laid in, such as musical
programs, clippings from The Hoosac Record; notes on trip detail miles driven,
car problems, campsites, weather, and commentary on people; this volume ends in
Los Angeles.
F136 Volume XX, “Western Trip (cont’d), Hoosac, Christmas Vacation,”
Aug 1927-Jan 1928
Includes table of contents, hand numbered pages, and headings; observations on
Navajo people, work, and living conditions; comments on Sacco and Vanzetti
trial; return to Hoosac, student discipline problems; death of a student; Gardiner is
hospitalized for “regular attacks” of stomach pain and vomiting (p. 69).
F137 Volume XXI, “Hoosac School, Canadian Trip,” Jan-Jul, 1928
Hears Toscanini in Carnegie Hall (p. 38); Vladimir Horowitz concert program
F138 Volume XXII, “Summer Vacation, Harvard Graduate School,” Jul 1928-Jan 1929
F139 Volume XXIII, “Harvard Graduate School,” 1929
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Series V. Rev. John Stockton (II) Littell Family Papers (cont’d)
Series V.2. T. Gardiner Littell (II) Diaries and Papers (cont’d)
5
F140 Letters of T. Gardiner Littell (II) to his father John S. Littell (II),
1925 Dec-1926 Jan
Fours letters written while traveling in France (see diary in F132)
Harvard papers
F141A Papers from English A, section 15, 1920-1921
F141B Work done for studies, 1921-1924
F142 A short story, [n.d.]
F143 Harvard Crimson editorials, poetry, miscellaneous writing, 1922-1924
F144 Clippings, obituaries, and letters of condolence, 1927-1929
Includes 1 ALS from Arthur M. Schlesinger, Widener Library, Harvard, to John
Stockton Littell (II), W. Hartford, CT, June 25, 1929, 1 p.
Series V.3. Walter Wilson Littell Papers, 1932-1995
F145 Letters and papers, 1922-1995
Includes early letters from Virginia (Walter’s wife) to Jean Littell and a
photograph of Walter Wilson Littell and Thomas Gardiner Littell (II) with a
Model-T (1922).
F146 Two signatures clipped from letters, c. 1850
One appears to be Major General John A. Dix
F147 Genealogy notes I - Thomas Willing genealogy (1786), 1985
Typed transcript
F148 “Entry of Expenses St. Martin’s Church, Salisbury,” 1906
F149 Genealogy notes II – Walter Townsend Wilson
F150 Littell genealogy, notes, clippings, transcripts, letters, c. 1970s
Includes information regarding the Littell-Wilson marriage, Morse genealogical
notes, a military certificate, a letter regarding the Purnells, Littell and Gardiner
English notes, notes regarding Fitzler, and other items
F151 Unidentified copybook, Rensselaer (?), c. 1830
F152 “Our Historical Articles,” [n.d.]
Typed transcripts
F153 Articles about Germantown
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Series VI. Winslow Family Papers, 1881-2004
Subseries VI.1. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers, 1881-2003
6
Correspondence, 1931-2000
Includes letters from family and friends, particularly the camp letters written by
her children, as well as photograph postcard of the Reverend T. Gardiner Littell’s
(I) home in Yonkers (ca. 1900) and photographs of the Bishop’s house in
Honolulu. See also oversize box.
F154 1931-1978
F155 1980-2000
F156 Camp letters, 1956-1962
F157 Passports, 1936 and 1984
F158 School letter and Baptism record, 1930-1933
F159 Jeanie Littell’s scrapbook of trip to England, c. 1936
Includes loose items removed from the scrapbook (removed to oversize Box 27).
F160 European trip postcards
F161 Photograph book “Memories of the Western Highlands,” 1936
F162 School project notebook on English history, [1930s]
Includes a few photographs
F163 Jean Morse Littell scrapbook on Hawaii, [1930s]
Probably assembled as a school project, includes written descriptions of the
island, pasted in clippings, articles, specimens of flowers, programs, etc.
(removed to oversize Box 27)
F164 Delaware shoreline clippings, 1929-1932
F165 Chi Omega Alumnae – program and directory, 1956-1957
F166 Clippings, notes, memorabilia, 1881-2003
Includes programs, notes, information about Bishop Littell, a furniture list, and
clippings
F167
F168
F169
F170
F171
Genealogy notebooks I
Genealogy notebooks II
Genealogy notebooks III
Memoir of the Gardiner family, 1883
Information on family portraits at Winterthur, PA Museum of Art, and Yale,
1970-1992
F172 Information about Littells at Trinity College, 2000
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Series VI. Winslow Family Papers (cont’d)
Subseries VI.1. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers (cont’d)
6
F173
F174
F175
F176
F177
F178
F179
F180
F181
F182
F183
Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3, 5, 8, 1972-1976
Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 2, Nos. 3, 5-8, 1977-1980
Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 3, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 1980-1982
Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 4, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 1985-1988
Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 5-7, 1992-1999
Finding Poetry in Every Day Life, 2002
Book of poetry written by Jean Morse Littell Winslow.
Notebook of handwritten poems, 1999-2001
Typescript (computer) draft, 2002 Jun 24
Typescript (computer) drafts, 2002 Sep 24
Typescript (computer) draft, [2002]
Titled “A Potpourri of Poems”
Typescript (computer) draft, 2002 Nov 18
Typescript (computer) draft, [2002]
Note of title page: “Last book before publication…”
Series VI.2. Julian Winslow research notes and personal papers, 1943-2004
Research files related to slavery, abolition, and political and business leaders in
nineteenth-century Delaware. The series contains copies of the Delaware Gazette
and handwritten research notes, as well as drafts of his books, and a few personal
papers.
7
F184
F185
F186
F187
F188
F189
Abolition and Notes from Delaware Gazette (1820s), c. 1980
Townsend, Samuel
Bayard, James A.
Seward, William Henry
Popular Sovereignty
Commissioners
F190
F191
F192
F193
F194
F195
Wilmot Provison
Hazzard, Clayton, Harrington Letters & Papers, copies
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Delaware Railroad
Delaware Gazette Notes on Succession
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Series VI. Winslow Family Papers (cont’d)
Series VI.2. Julian Winslow research notes and personal papers (cont’d)
7
F196 State of Delaware – Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs – microfilm,
1863-1866
RG#1300 Executive Papers, 1754-1900
Roll 50: 1863 Appointments & Commission to 1864 Lighthouse
Roll 51: 1864 Military folder #1 to 1866 Correspondence
F197 “Murder at Delaware College: The Death of John Edward Roach, March 30,
1858,” 1958
Samuel Maxwell Harrington: a Pioneer Judge
(New York: Vantage, 1994)
Material toward this book written by Julian D. Winslow
F198 Research
F199 “The Harrington Family,” by P. F. Harrington, 1993
F200 “Hosanna for Judge Harrington, His Associates, and Friends,” [n.d.]
“Chancellor Harrington, His Family, Friends, and Associate,” 1992
F201 Part I
F202 Part II
F203 “Delaware Says ‘Thank You, Judge Harrington,’” [1990s]
“Samuel Maxwell Harrington: a Pioneer Judge,” 1993
F204 Typescript (copy)
F205 Typescript (copy)
F206 Original typescript/setting copy, 1993
8
F207 Correspondence, reviews, publicity, 1992-2001
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Description
Series VI. Winslow Family Papers (cont’d)
Series VI.2. Julian Winslow research notes and personal papers (cont’d)
Sussex Awakens to the Toot
(Wilmington, Delaware: Julian D. Winslow, 1999)
8
F208
F209
F210
F211
F212
F213
F214
F215
Computer diskettes, 1998-2000
Early version, [n.d.]
Typescript (computer), [n.d.]
Typescript (computer), [n.d.]
Missing pages 1-6 and title page.
Typescript (computer), [n.d.]
Possible setting copy with notes
Erratum sheets for book, [n.d.]
Correspondence and reviews, 2000-2002
“Thomas Harrison, Millenarian,” 1986
Family genealogical research
F216 “Journal of Thomas Nicholson,” [n.d.]
Includes “Nicholson Family History,” (1979)
F217 Lofland genealogy, 1990-2001
Littell family
F218 John Stockton Littell (I) notes
F219 “John Stockton Littell (I),” n.d.
F220 Edward Littell, 1943 and 2001
F221
F222
F223
F224
F225
F226
F227
F228
Winslow family
“Ancestors of Julian D. Winslow,” n.d.
Family tree – laminated copy removed to oversize.
Correspondence and notes, 1957-1959
Correspondence and notes, 1960
Correspondence and notes, 1961-1962
Correspondence and notes, 1963-1965
Correspondence and notes, 1966
Index card, [n.d.]
Joseph Winslow (North Carolina), 1970s-1980s
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Description
Series VI. Winslow Family Papers (cont’d)
Series VI.2. Julian Winslow research notes and personal papers (cont’d)
Winslow family (cont’d)
9
F229
F230
F231
F232
F233
F234
F235
F236
F237
F238
F239
F240
F241
F242
F243
F244
The Origin Perquimans County, North Carolina Winslows,” 1957-1969
Edward Winslow
Jamaica Vassalls
Governor’s Register, 1962-1983
Arthur J. Winslow, 1965-1982
Francis E. Winslow, 1953-1964
Kenelm Winslow, 1959-1996
Samuel and Joseph Winslow (copies), 1674-1761
Some photocopies removed to oversize.
Correspondence with Mrs. A. Waldo Jones, 1959-1987
Notes, 1956-1999
Notes, 1960-1987
Notes, 1959-1994
Notes, 1955-1999
Resources, 1997-2000
Includes a copy of The Archive Photographs Series: Winslows (1997)
Delaware Mayflower Society, 1957-1999
Sons of the American Revolution, 2003
Julian D. Winslow personal papers, 1931-2004
F245 Passport and certificates, 1984-1992
F246 Correspondence, clippings, programs, 1931-1955
F247 Correspondence, resumes, programs, notes, 1966-2004
Series VI.3. Helen L. Winslow, 1970-2004
Daughter of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow
F248 Correspondence, programs, 1970-2001
F249 InRe: the Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, 1998-2000
F250 InRe: the Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, 2001-2004
Series VI.4. J. Dallas Winslow, Jr., 1962-2003
Son of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow
F251 Correspondence, clippings, campaign flyers, 1962- 2003
Series VI.5. Mary Peters Winslow Reddick, 1958-1999
Daughter of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow
F252 Correspondence and clippings, 1958-1999
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Series VII. Photographs and Postcards, 1850-1973
Series VII.1. Photographs, 1850-1972
10
John Stockton Littell (I) family
F253 John Stockton Littell (I) family portraits, c. 1850-1860
Four items; portraits of Harriet Hare Littell and Susan S. M. Littell by Broadbent
& Co., Philadelphia; a portrait of T. Gardiner Littell (I) at age 14, signed in pencil,
“Cummings”; small portrait of John Stockton Littell (I) by D. Hinkle,
Germantown, Pennsylvania.
F254 Susan Sophia Morris Littell (1800-1868), c. 1860
Framed in veneered wood frame, carved and painted, removed to Box 12
Harrington family
F255 Samuel Milby Harrington
Three items; two portraits of Samuel Milby Harrington, one reproduction, and one
engraved by H. S. Sadd and signed by the subject; Samuel Maxwell and Mary
Lofland Harrington family and guests.
F256 Purnell Frederick Harrington, c. 1850-1935
Six items; three reproductions of young Harrington; one portrait by Cutler of
Keene, New Hampshire, 1916; one photograph, 1935, at World War Monument,
Yonkers, New York; one photograph postcard captioned “Admiral Harrington
presenting portraits of Delaware naval heroes to U.S.S. Delaware,” c. 1890.
T. Gardiner Littell (I) family
F257 T. Gardiner Littell (I) portraits, c. 1865-1910
Eight items; including portraits by J. Paul Brown of Wilmington, Delaware, and
Littell’s calling card
F258 Family portraits, 1896-1902
Six items; including a photograph of T. Gardiner (I) and S. Harrington Littell with
the Reverend William Welles Holley; and a photograph of Elton and Helen
Arcadia Littell in front of the family home at 1805 Market Street, Wilmington,
Delaware
F259 Lizzie Green, Littell family nanny, c. 1880
F260 European trip, 1894
Five items; including two photographs of dogs
F261 Helen Arcadia Harrington Littell, c. 1890-1914
Nine items; including a portrait, c. 1865, by E. & M. Garrett, Wilmington,
Delaware; three portraits by F. M. Zuller at the U.S. Naval Academy; and one
signed in pencil, “Haywood, ’14.”
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Description
Series VII. Photographs and Postcards (cont’d)
Series VII.1. Photographs (cont’d)
T. Gardiner Littell (I) family (cont’d)
10
F262 Family outings, c. 1894-1915
Snapshots and cyanotypes depict camping and hiking in the Presidential Range;
the Reverend and Mrs. Littell with Bishop Hall, Jefferson, New Hampshire; a
horse and buggy; Helen Arcadia with college roommates in front of a wooden
boat; T. Gardiner Littell gravestone, St. John’s Cemetery, Yonkers, New York;
family cat.
F263 Family home, “Delavan,” Yonkers, New York, c. 1900
Helen A. and Mary M. Littell
F264 Helen A. Littell, 1882-1920
Twelve items; including a baby portrait, signed on back, “M & W Garrett,”
Wilmington, Delaware; four portraits taken in New York City studios; three
snapshots including a passport photograph
F265 Mary M. Littell, c. 1895-1920
Twelve items, including a childhood portrait by Cummins, Baltimore, Maryland,
bearing a logo that reads “Manly Deeds, Womanly Words”; a full-length portrait
of Mary seated in a carved chair, signed “Irwin, 1910”; two small portraits of
Mary wearing an elaborate, flowered hat; and a German silhouette by Gustav
Freund.
11
F266 Helen and Mary, snapshots, c. 1914-1930
Subjects are shown gardening, reading, relaxing outside their home; two
snapshots of children in Volendam and Marken; a full-length snapshot of Mary in
front of a Venice hotel, 1914.
F267 Elton Gardiner Littell, 1890 & 1929
Two portraits
Samuel Harrington Littell
F268 George Fox Norton School Class of 1889
One item; broken in three places. Names of students and classmates are
handwritten on the back of this photograph of a Philadelphia school graduating
class, attended by S. Harrington Littell.
F269 Samuel Harrington Littell portraits, 1878-c. 1929
Four items; one, dated 1878, depicts boy in Scottish costume, by Maybin,
Wilmington, Delaware; two portraits depict Harrington in priestly garb; one, by a
Honolulu studio, shows him in bishop’s vestments.
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Description
Series VII. Photographs and Postcards (cont’d)
Series VII.1. Photographs (cont’d)
Samuel Harrington Littell (cont’d)
11
F270 Samuel Harrington Littell and family, c. 1930-1950
Six items; three outdoor group photos of family members, many wearing leis; two
photos include children’s Hawaiian nurse.
F271 St. Andrew’s Cathedral and Parish House, Honolulu, c. 1940
Four items; depict interior and exterior of church, Chinese furnishings and rugs in
the house.
F272
F273
F274
F275
John Stockton Littell (II) and family
Album, Silver Lake, New Hampshire, c. 1914
Snapshots pasted in paper album, cover missing, depicting family members
involved in leisure activities at the lake where they spent summers.
Family photographs, c. 1915-1929
Five items; include group photographs of family boating, Christmas 1926, Silver
Lake.
Family homes, c. 1918-1932
Six items; including two photograph postcards depicting St. James Church in
Keene, New Hampshire, and St. James Church and Parsonage, West Hartford,
Connecticut; the rectory at Lewes, Delaware; and “Elton,” on Manheim Street,
Germantown, Pennsylvania.
Rehoboth and Lewes, Delaware, c. 1930
Fifteen items; eleven photograph postcards depict Rehoboth Beach and Lewes,
Delaware, buildings, churches, cars, and bridges in the 1930s; two snapshots
portray the family in Gardiner’s car in front of their cottage; several pictures of
the dunes and Cape Henlopen lighthouse, clipped from books.
Gertrude Wilson Littell and ancestors
F276 Morse ancestors, c. 1870-1895
F277 Wilson family, c. 1860-1902
Nine items, most portraits made by Buffalo, New York, studios, of ancestors of
Gertrude Wilson Littell
F278 Gertrude Wilson debutante and wedding Dresses, 1897-1900
Two items, one a full-length portrait of Gertrude, 1900, caption reads “Wedding
dress is in Buffalo Museum.”
F279 Gertrude Wilson Littell and children, 1902-1904
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Description
Series VII. Photographs and Postcards (cont’d)
Series VII.1. Photographs (cont’d)
Gertrude Wilson Littell and ancestors (cont’d)
11
Estelle Sherman Littell and ancestors
F280 Sherman, Estelle and Julia, 1893-c. 1930
Five items; one childhood snapshot, undated, by Scherer, New York, New York,
“The Fotocrafter,” advertises on back “Carbonette imperials $3.00 per doz.”;
1893 full-length portrait of Julia Sherman, by Klary, Bruxelles
F281 John Stockton and Estelle Sherman Littell, 1924
Children of John Stockton (II) and Gertrude Wilson Littell
F282 Gardiner (II) and Margaret Littell baby portraits, 1902-1905
12
Helen Littell
F283 Helen Littell Derbyshire, 1955
Two portraits
13
F284 “My Trip Abroad – 1928-June – September-1928 – Helen Littell,” 1928-1936
Photograph album containing ca. 185 photographs of two trips taken by Helen
Littell and family to Europe, the first in 1928 and a second in the summer of 1936.
Images include noted buildings, monuments and landscapes and occasional
images with the family included. Countries visited include England, Scotland,
Isle of Wight, Holland, France, and Ireland.
12
Margaret Littell
F285 Margaret Littell, [1920]-1959
Three items; depict the subject at the piano, and walking the beach and a group
photograph at Dobbs Ferry School (Margaret is in second row, third from left).
13
F286 “Photographs – Last of West Hartford to Spring 1937,” 1924-1937
Photograph album containing over 300 photographs, most with captions, of
Margaret Littell and her family, including her siblings, parents, aunts and uncles.
Also includes extended family and friends. Taken between 1924 and 1937, the
photographs record family outings or event in Nantucket, Lewes and Brandywine
Park, Delaware, Honolulu, Hawaii, Washington D. C., Washington state and the
University of Washington, Mills Adirondack Camp, Canada, and Vassar College.
Highlights include the wedding of Walter and Virginia Littell, the graduation of
Helen from Vassar, May Day celebrations, and the construction of the National
Cathedral (1930).
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Description
Series VII. Photographs and Postcards (cont’d)
Series VII.1. Photographs (cont’d)
Gertrude Wilson Littell and ancestors (cont’d)
13
F287 “Old Photographs – Margaret Littell,” 1878-1927
Photograph album containing 110 photographs, many with captions, of the Littell
family, including many of Margaret, her parents and siblings. Also includes older
photographs of great grandmother Miller, D. R. Morse (1907), Gertrude Wilson
(1879-1904), John S. Littell (II) as boy (1878), Elton Gardiner Littell (1899),
Jeanie Morse Wilson (1890?), Mrs. Charles Morse (1892), T. Gardiner Littell (II)
as baby (1902 – with father and grandfather) and many others. Laid in is the
confirmation certificate of Jean Morse Littell (1930 Mar 23).
12
F288 Walter Wilson Littell, 1929-1940
Two items; a portrait Walter as a Yale freshman and with his wife, Virginia
12
F289 Capt. Eliakim Littell Monument, Springfield, New Jersey, c. 1972
Two snapshots
12
13
13
Winslow Family
Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow
F290 Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Childhood Snapshots, c. 1920s
F291 “A Baby Book 1918-on – Jeanie Morse Littell (Winslow), [1918-ca. 1925]
Photograph album containing 98 photographs, which bears the note on the inside
front cover: “This book belonged to my sister Margaret Littell, Grandmother and
Grandfather Wilson from Buffalo, Grandmother and Grandfather Littell from
Delaware. Given to me 1986 in Margaret’s 83rd year.” Most of the images
include Jean Littell and her family. Only a few captions are available in this
album. Laid in is a childhood letter from Jean Littell to her parents.
F292 “Jeanie Morse Littell – Her Book – Keene – Sept. 1918,” 1918-1935
Photograph album (probably created by Jeanie’s sister, Margaret Littell)
containing over 235 photographs, most have captions and are of Jeanie Morse
Littell Winslow from birth through age 17, but also includes parents,
grandmother, aunts and siblings. Locations include Yonkers, West Hartford,
Hawaii, Rehoboth, Atlantic City, Fort Trumbull Beach, and Indian Neck.
12
F293 Winslow children - Helen, Mary, Dallas, 1949-1960s
Two items
12
F294 Four unidentified photographs, c. 1870-1910
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Description
Series V.II. Photographs and Postcards
Series VII.2. Post cards
See Appendix A for a detailed list.
14
15
16
17
18
United States -- Arizona to Washington D.C.
United States -- Miscellaneous States and Images to International
Oversize postcards removed to Box 13
Post cards collected by Margaret Littell, 1928-1973
Includes a numbered series of images from a European tour (England, France,
Italy), images of works of art, images of Keene, New Hampshire (including
photograph post cards), a few postcards set by Mary Morris Littell, cards sent to
sister, Margaret and Mary Littell. One folder of oversize postcards removed to
Box 13.
Series VIII. Books
See Appendix B for a detailed list.
Items 1-17
Items 18-28
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia
Items housed in the vault.
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1
Edward E. Everett’s hair
Paper wrapper labeled “Edward E. Everett’s hair” enclosing snip of hair
Note: Edward Everett (1794-1865), Unitarian clergyman, teacher, orator; DAB
III: 223
26
2
H. C. Hare letter to Margaretta Morris referring to Miss Dix and her visits
to examine penitentiaries, asylums, etc.
ALS, H. C. Hare, Philadelphia, November 19, [ca.1845] to Miss Margaretta
Morris, Germantown. Folded letter with red wax seal; postmark Phil’a Nov 19 / 5
cts
Note: Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), mental health reformer; published the results of
her work in “Memorials.” Among the memorials she prepared were those to New
Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1845.
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3
Indian’s breast pin
“E.C. Morris Indian Breast Pin and two notes”
“A silver brooch made by an Indian and worn by the young Oneida chief who
studied at Nashota given to me by George Schetky.”
Note: Nashotah House, an Episcopal Seminary, Wisconsin
(http://www.nashotah.edu/) and excerpt from the diart of George P. Schetky:
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/usa/jlbreck/letters/02.html
See also items 12 and 14
19
4
Lord Byron’s hair
Lock of hair with paper label in small box.
Box label “Geo. W. Taylor, No. 94 Chestnut Street, Phil’a. Manufacturer of silver
thimbles...”
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
19
5-1
26
5-2
19
6A
6B
George Washington’s coffin, lock(?) and signature
Small pine box with latch and hinge 1.25” x 2” with ink inscription inside
lid: “This box was made of the wood of Washington’s coffin” and ink inscription
in bottom “John S. Littell from E. C. Morris.”
Plus strands of hair under folded paper and cut signature of G. Washington.
Folded paper note “Part of the coffin in which General Washington was interred
and from which he was taken to be placed in the marble sarcophagus in which he
now lies. The three hairs enclosed in the little box were given to me by Mrs.
Peters, one of Mr. Washington’s step-granddaughters. The autograph was cut
from a letter to General Leay (?) and given to me by his daughter, Mrs. William
Darlington of West Chester Pennsylvania – the whole to be given, after death to
my dear brother John S. Littell, a token of my sincere affection - E.C. Morris
January 19th, 1854.” Pencil addendum “The other hairs were given to me by
Rosalie E. Morris. The wood was made into two little boxes, one of which
accompanies this notice and is to be given to John S. Littell”
Note: Copyright 2004 The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
60(cg) Color Guard artifact of coffin
59(cg) Color Guard artifact, hair fragment
http://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/ArtifactsTOC.shtml
Tiffany & Co. pendant made from a piece of the first trans Atlantic cable
Cable fragment pendant in box 1.25” x 1.75”; original box label “Tiffany &
Company ...” Tiffany & Company Atlantic Cable - 1858 Tiffany marketed
souvenirs
Note: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Souvenirs/Cane/
http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/com/atcabE.html
“Atlantic Cable, from Papers of the Day” notebook of clippings, 1858
Clippings from Philadelphia and New York newspapers. Some removed to
oversize.
19
7-1
Revolutionary war bullets
Paper label, “Battle of (Germantown?) 1777”
Bullet embedded in sediment
19
7-2
Washington elm
Slice of elm wood mounted on paper card 1.5” x 1.5”
Inscription “Washington Elm Cambridge” and on verso: “Washington Elm –
Central Fair, 1864”
Note: United States Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, June 1864
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
19
8
Penn wainscoting
Wood fragment 3.25” x 0.5”
Paper label: “Piece of Wainscote of Wm. Penn’s house, Norris’ Alley and 2d
above Walnut St., Philadelphia”
19
9-1
26
9-2
Revolutionary bullets
Two bullets, 1.5cm and 2cm
Newsprint wrapping with paper label “Battle of Germantown, 1777”
with paper envelope addressed to Rev. Dr. Littell, St. John’s Rectory,
Wilmington, Delaware, postmarked Portland, Maine, Apr. 5 [18]90, labeled
“American Revolution Bullet”
19
10
Washington’s coffin
Wood fragment mounted on paper card 1.75” x 1.75” with inscription
“Washington’s Coffin” and on verso: “Taken by Jn Struthers at the time he
removed the body to the marble coffin in which it now lies.” [1837]
Note: Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service
http://www.commonwealthinst.org/. Also from Todd W. Van Beck’s Funerals of
the Famous: “The father of our country was buried in three caskets: a lead inner
liner, mahogany casket and strong wood case. Other problems had surfaced at the
vault site. From 1799 to 1831, the wooden casings which covered Washington’s
lead casket had to be replaced three times due to deterioration and decay. In
1837, this problem was solved when John Struthers of Philadelphia presented two
marble caskets to the Washington family so the President and First Lady could be
interred in a safe, strong, and secure permanent enclosure. The Washington family
accepted the gifts and the event known as “Washington’s Re-Tombing’ began.
To accommodate the two new marble caskets, the inner vault had to be enlarged.
A 12-foot brick vestibule was added to the inner vault. On Saturday, Oct. 7, 1837,
the bodies of Martha and George Washington were placed in the new caskets
(made of solid blocks of Pennsylvania marble).”
19
11
Pompeii barley
Paper powder compact (small round box)
Inscribed “Five grains of barley, found in the ruins of Pompeii, G. H. Hare, 1837”
and paper label inside reads “Barley found in Pompey G. H. Hare, 1836”
19
12
Indian arrowhead, Nashotah Lake
Indian arrowhead with paper label “Indian arrowhead, Nashotah Lake”
See note to item 3
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
26
13
Two seals of the Committee of Safety
Two wax seals on paper cards.
“Seal of the Committee of Safety, 1776”
1. Inscription on verso “Seal of the Committee of Safety, now in the possession
of S. Milegan, descendant of Samuel Morris, Vice President of the Committee of
Safety, 1776. Purchased at the Great Central Fair, June 1864. M. H. Morris,
Germantown”
2. Inscription on verso: “Seal of the Council of Safety, now in the possession of
S. Milegan, descendant of Samuel Morris, who was Vice President of the Council,
1776. Purchased at the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, 1864. M. H. Morris”
19
14
Piece of metal from the exploded big gun of the U.S.S. Princeton
commanded by Captain R. F. Stockton
Metal fragment, 3.5cm
Paper label “A piece of the ‘Big Gun’ which exploded on board a U.S. steam
frigate Princeton, Captain R. F. Stockton. From yours respectfully George P.
Schetky. To Miss M. H. Morris 9th & George St.”
Note: http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/milepost_summer04.pdf
Re: Robert F. Stockton and steam power on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. See
also note for Item 3.
26
15
Indian arrowheads
24 arrowheads (16 of which are quartz) and 1 geode, with paper label “Indian
arrowheads found near the Potomac at Washington D.C.”
19
16
Tooth of a [cayman]
Animal tooth, 5.5cm, attached to a paper label with inscription “Tooth of
(cayman) from the Oronoka”
19
17
Two Egyptian figurines
Two [cast plaster?] Egyptian figurines, 7.5cm and 5.5cm
Envelope addressed to “Rev. T. Gardiner Littell D. D., 1805 Market Street,
Wilmington, Delaware,” postmarked “Hartford, Conn. Apr. 12, 1893”
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Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
26
18
Washington’s hair and notes
Paper labeled “Washington’s hair” with enclosed hair
Envelope inscribed “The enclosed hair of Washington to be divided between my
dear(?) children Susan E. Fallon and C. Willing Littell, M.H. Morris”
ALS Lucy Harrison, Mill Wood PO, Clark County, Virginia to “My Dear
Cousin,” May 17th, n.y., 4 pp.
Outer envelope inscribed “Washington’s Hair & Letter explaining”
Excerpt from letter: “I send the piece of General Washington’s hair which I
promised to cousin Margaretta, it was presented to my Mother by Miss Nelly
Custis, his adopted daughter, & the grand-daughter of his wife. Miss Custis told
Momma she had given away so much of it, she could only give her a small piece.
If it does not make my letter too bulky I will put in the piece of paper which now
contains the hair, that she may see the old fashioned hand writing in which it is
labeled.”
26
19
Lafayette’s badge
Ribbon, 27cm x 5.5cm, commemorating Lafayette’s visit to Pennsylvania (18241825)
Image with text in “A Greatful Nations Welcome Guest. Brandywine,
Germantown, Monmouth, York Town V, LaFayette. Published & Sold at No. 41
N. Second St.”
Note: See Lafayette College series VI, re: 1824-25 tour
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/special/marquis/MarquisFindAids/memorabiliac
ollection3.htm
19
20
Pompeii pavement mosaic
Black and white tile mosaic, ca. 5.5cm x 4.5cm x 2cm, with paper label
“Fragment of a mosaic pavement in Pompeii – brought from the city by Harrison
Hare”
19
21
Penn’s house wainscoting
Wood fragment, 12.5cm x 3cm x 2cm, with paper label “A piece of the original
wainscoting of Penn’s house, Phil.”
20
22
Fragment of pavement
Embedded rock fragment, ca 3cm x 2.5cm x 2cm, attached to paper label “From
the pavement of the Baths of Caracalla, D. L. Dix, 1856”
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
20
23
Fragments of the monument to Wolfe and Montcalm
Small rock fragment, 2.5cm x 1.5cm, attached to label “Plains of Abraham,
Quebec, Montcalm & Wolfe, fragment of their monument”
26
24
Edgar Allan Poe stanza from The Bells
Autographed manuscript fragment from The Bells “Keeping time, time, time, / In
a sort of Runic rhyme, / To the throbbing of the bells _ / Of the bells, bells, bells :
_ / To the sobbing of the bells.” Written on verso (in another hand?) “Edgar A.
Poe”
Note: For fourth stanza (lines 31-35) of The Bells see
http://eserver.org/books/poe/bells.html
26
25
Oakum from the Constitution
Fiber specimen, 5cm x 1cm
Paper label “Some of the Oakum taken from Frigate Constitution which was put
in her seams in 1797 and taken out in 1847”
20
26
Unidentified wood fragment from flagship [Reliance]
Wood fragment, 6.5cm x 4.5cm x 2.5cm, attached to paper label “Flagship
[Reliance], at Richmond, [first taken] from the British [in] the Revolution”
26
27
Poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with his signed note
Last page of undated incomplete autograph signed letter written by Longfellow to
Miss Gilpin. On verso autographed poem in pencil “A Song of Hope inscribed
very hopefully to its suggester.” First line begins “Let us hope for the best, tho’
the worst should...”
26
28
Early engravings by St. Memin, Philadelphia
Eight engravings “Drawn & engrav’d by St. Memin, Philad’a”
Includes six copies of an engraving of an unidentified male, one with note “I
know not who this was but certainly he was the father of Miss Watts, the likeness
is strong to her.” Plus one engraving of a male identified as Mr. Laneuville and
one engraving of a female identified as Mad. Soullier
Paper wrapper labeled: “Found among the papers of the late Miss Mary L. Watts.
J.S.L.” (John Stockton Littell)
Note: Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile Portrait in
America (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994). For Memin’s
portrait of Lewis: http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/contentarticle.asp?ArticleID=1098
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
26
29
Paper currency issued by Assembly of the State of Delaware, May 1, 1777
Eight notes, signed and numbered
Includes seven nine pence notes, one in fragments, with print: “To counterfeit is
death / Printed by James Adams, 1777” and on verso: “This indented bill shall
pass current for Nine Pence, within the Delaware State ...1st Day of May, 1777.
9d” Signed R. Lockwood.
Numbers: 50695, 50699, 50855, 50899, 50903, 51051, 51069
Plus one four pence note, printed as above, number 50658(?)
Note: For Delaware Currency, 5/1/1777 see:
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/DE-05-01-77.html
26
30
Five notes of currency
(1) [Maryland Currency] “Two dollars ... dated in Annapolis this Tenth Day of April ...
1774” Signed “J. Clapham” and “Wm. Eddis” numbered No. 10990. On verso “Printed
by A. C. and F. Green”
(2) Continental Currency. “Thirty Dollars ... Baltimore, February 26, 1777”
Signed “W. Coale” and “Johnson(?)”, Number No. 71891. On verso “Printed by
Hall and Sellers”
(3) United States Postage Currency, Fifty Cents. Verso dated July 17, 1862
(4) United States Fractional Currency, 25 Cents, March 3d, 1863
(5) United States Fractional Currency, 10 cents, with engraving of “Wm M.
Meredith, Secretary Treasurer, 1849” Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Series of
1874
Note: Maryland Currency, 4/10/1774 at
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/MD-04-10-74.html
Continental Currency, 2/26/1777 at
http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/CC-02-26-77.html
26
31
Eight bank notes, issued generally in the 1830s-1840s
1. Florida. Bank of Florida, Tallahassee, Ten Dollars, 1/15/1836
2. Pennsylvania. North Hampton Bank, Five Dollars, 2/24/1836
3. Michigan. Farmers Bank of Genesee County, Ten Dollars, 1/1838
4. Ohio. Bank of West Union, Ten Dollars, 9/1/1838
5. Mississippi. The Bank of Port Gibson, Fifty Dollars, 10/18/1838
6. Mississippi. Mississippi Rail Road Company, Ten Dollars, 6/15/1839
7. Pennsylvania. Bank of Susquehanna County, Five Dollars, 9/10/1841
8. New York. Oswego County Bank, Five Dollars, 10/1/1849
20
32
Copy of the New York Morning Post of Friday, November 7, 1783
Volume III, No. 155, printed by Morton and Horner, 4 pp.
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
26
33
Twenty-nine notes of Confederate Currency, including two from the state
of Florida
1. (2) Confederate States of America, 50 Cents, Richmond, 2/1/1864
2. (9) Confederate States of America, 10 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/1864
3. (10) Confederate States of America, 20 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/1864
4. (1) Confederate States of America, 50 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/1864
5. (5) Confederate States of America, 100 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/1864
6. (2) State of Florida, 50 Cents, Tallahassee, 2/2/1863
26
34
Locks of hair (unidentified) in envelope
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ann W. Morris, German Town, Penn.
20
35
Eyeglasses
Three pair of metal eyeglasses
20
36
Folding hand-held eyeglasses made by McAllister (Philadelphia)
Antique folding eyeglasses with handle, engraved on handle is “McAllister,”
noted Philadelphia spectacle maker
20
37
One square piece of mother of pearl
5.5cm square of etched mother of pearl with attached string, buttons, and ring
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
38
Brass bracelet (embossed)
ca. 16cm long malleable bracelet
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
39
Pieces of mother of pearl
Includes two pieces from a card case and two carved buttons
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
40
Red ribbon garters with attached mother-of-pearl fish
Two red ribbon garters with attached mother-of-pearl carved in the shape of fish.
One ribbon is a faded red, the other deep red.
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
20
41
Carved ivory
Includes one carved box and five carved pieces
21
42
Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1806
ca. 3 x 5-1/2 inches, is apparently by Susan Sophia Morris, done in 1806
21
43
Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1808
ca. 6 x 7-1/4 inches, bears the name of Susanna E. Littell, and dated 1808
21
44
Small, wood-beaded cross from Dorothea Dix, n.d.
ca. 1-1/2 x 2 inches, with gold cube center engraved “MHM” on one side and
“from D. L. Dix” on the reverse.
21
45
Tortoiseshell veneered calling card case, ca. 1850
About 2-1/4 x 3 3/4 inches, lined in velvet, containing calling card printed: “Miss
M. H. Morris, Germantown” and penciled “Miss Johnson”
21
46
Framed Portrait of Elizabeth Carrington Morris, 1864
“Taken from photograph, 1864, given by me to M. H. Morris/ T.G. Littell/
[missing month] 20, 1879”
26
47
Dorothea Dix letters
[n.d.]
ALS 1p.
1867 Sep 4
ALS 3pp.
to Margaretta Hare Morris
to Mr. Littell
26
48A
Mary Roberdeau letters to Miss Elizabeth C. Morris, 1827-1828
Three ALSs, dated May 26, 1827, July 5, 1827, January 3, 1828; each is stamped
“Free” and franked with the signature of John Quincy Adams.
26
48B
Millard Fillmore letter to John S. Littell, 1855 Mar 17
ALS, 4pp. Written from Buffalo, NY to Littell of Germantown, PA.
Removed from F39A.
21
49
Photograph of Jeanie Morse, ca. 1855
[Tintype?] in ornate gilt frame with red velvet, inside hinged box with mother-ofpearl inlay, approximately 3-1/2 x 4 inches
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
21
50
Small mother-of-pearl French calendar & notebook, ca. 1844
About 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, with note laid in, “Granny’s ? 1844 – French calendar
& notebook,” which includes a few autograph notes
21
51
Baby slippers, n.d.
A small pair of handmade Chinese embroidered slippers, ca. 4 inches long
21
52
Rev. T. Gardner Littell (1837-1911)
Oval portrait (painted?) of T. Gardner Littell signed by [G de Ajuria] with oval
wooden case
Harrington family
Silver goblet, 1856
185 mm tall. Engraved inscription reads: “Presented by John C. Smith at
Washington City to Samuel M. Harrington Jr. of Delaware College, Newark, 24
July 1856.” See F27
28
53
22
54
Red wax seals, [n.d.]
10 wax seals on paper cards, with Latin motto "Scando"; 1, without card, with
Latin motto "Per aspera bclli."
22
55
Yellow and black triangle puzzle
88 mm square. With original wooden container, parts detached, marked on the
verso: "C. Willing Littell from his dear sister Meta [Margaretta Morris Littell]
Christmas Day 1843."
22
56
Seven carved ivory items, [n.d.]
Includes a long armed cup and ball toy (140 mm long), an engraved stamp with
“Littell” etched on the top of the handle, and five additional pieces of ivory
22
57
One metal octagonal box, [n.d.]
70 x 70 mm. In pieces, with an illustration of a seated woman holding a lamb on
the top of the box – possibly for jewelry
22
58
Decorative frame, [n.d.]
120 x 105 mm. Wooden with gold trim frame holding a print of an illustrated
version of the Lord’s Prayer
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
22
59
Dried flowers in decorative frame, 1867
135 x 105 mm. Frame “patented Aug. 7, 1855.” A note of the verso states: “T.
G. & H. A. L.’s [Helen Harrington] wedding flowers – on back of flowers it says
“St. John’s Church June 11th 1867 Wilmington De. (Thomas Gardiner Littell and
Helen Harrington) Rector of St. John’s Church, Wilmington, De.”
22
60
Miniature brass telescope, 1845
Container 85 mm long. Housed in paper container, the telescope has a green
exterior and is marked "T. [Thomas] Gardiner Littell. Christmas 1845. From his
Mother."
22
61
Garter with a detached wooden piece, [n.d.]
23
62
“The Improved and Illustrated Game of Dr. Busby,” [1843]
W. & S. B. Ives. Salem: MA, [1843]
Incomplete set of 11 illustrated cards with directions of Miss Anne W. Abbott’s
game. An early edition housed in an envelope postmarked Mar 24 1909
addressed to Mr. T. Gardiner Littell and marked “Cards Game of Dr. Busby.”
23
63
Two tapered wooden cylinders containing toy snakes, [n.d.]
Each ca. 120 mm long. One marked “37 ½” on the outside.
23
64
Red case with playing cards, [n.d.]
125 x 30 x 10 mm. The case originally housed two decks of cards but one deck is
present. The deck of bridge cards is illustrated with an aerial view of the DuPont
estate of Granogue. The deck is unopened and affixed is a stamp “playing cards 1
pack U.S. Int. Rev.”
23
65
Brown wallet-style buttoned case with playing cards, [n.d.]
130 x 105 x 25 mm. The case has an illustration and words “Merry Christmas
from Granogue” in gold on the cover. The case includes two decks of playing
cards illustrated with an aerial view of Granogue on one side, plus a pencil and a
partially used bridge score pad.
23
66
Brown buttoned case with playing cards, [n.d.]
100 x 70 x 55 mm. The top of the case has an illustration and “Merry Christmas
from Granogue” in gold. The case includes two decks of cards, one with an aerial
view of Granogue and a second deck with a view of an ocean-front estate.
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
23
67
Framed silhouette of Richard Willing by John Miers, [n.d.]
162 x 140 mm. Black frame with oval gold trim which is typical of frames
created by Miers. On the verso a note states: “Richard Willing, brother of Chas.
[Charles] Willing and uncle to Ann Willing Morris." Printed on the back of the
frame: “Miers – Profile Painter & Jeweller…London.”
24
68
Arrowhead, [n.d.]
24
69
Metal monogram block bearing the initials M.M.L. [1827]
26 mm square. Block is housed in a box marked "1827,” “MML” and “Littell.”
24
70
Set of paper dominoes in paper wrapper, [n.d.]
The paper dominoes are hand painted and lacquered.
24
71
Small illustrated notebook/wallet/card case, [n.d.]
102 x 75 mm. Illustrated wooden boards, hinged and sealed with rod and marked
"Souvenir de Spa" on the outer spine.
24
72
Etched mother of pearl calling card case, [n.d.]
95 x 58 mm. Case is hinged and empty.
24
73
Mother of pearl calling card case, [n.d.]
92 x 62 mm. Case is hinged and has a crumpled piece of paper inside.
24
74
Diamond-patterned (blue/green) shell calling card case, [n.d.]
90 x 63 mm. Hinged case is empty.
24
75
Brown/tan [tortoise shell] calling card case, [n.d.]
105 x 80 mm. Case has a broken hinge and is empty.
24
76
Decorative coin purse/miniature wallet, [n.d.]
70 x 55 mm. The exterior of the purse is engraved with a hearth scene in gold and
has shell/mother of-pearl inlay on the reverse side.
24
77
Embroidered sewing cushion, [n.d.]
58 x 45 mm. Brown material with turquoise embroidery
24
78
Green octagon board with numbers and wreath, [n.d.]
ca. 45 mm. Possible game piece, verso reads "The Race of Improvement"
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
24
79
Pair of Chinese embroidered slippers, [n.d.]
ca. 90 mm long.
24
80
Small perfume container, [n.d.]
65 x 30 mm. Container is black with gold ornament, a hinged lid, and contains
two miniature perfume vials and has a piece of the top detached.
24
81
Three covered silk acorns, [n.d.]
ca. 25 mm each
24
82
Illustrated card of Napoleon, [n.d.]
87 x 67 mm. Card is embossed and hand-colored and has written at the top “Mr.
Napoleon.”
24
83
Miniature shell-shaped ceramic or porcelain container, [n.d.]
35 x 30 mm. The white container bears floral decoration and gold colored trim,
perhaps used for perfume.
24
84
Miniature long-necked glass bottle, [n.d.]
45 mm. long
24
85
Miniature glass bottle with handles, [n.d.]
35 mm. long
25
86
25
87
Portrait of two children in gold metal frame, [n.d.]
110 x 82 mm.
25
88
Portrait of woman with hat in wooden, gilded frame with hanger, [n.d.]
75 x 60 mm.
25
89
Image of a doll on a glass plate in gold frame, [n.d.]
65 x 50 mm. The mat bears hand drawn decoration.
Photographs of unidentified individuals
Portrait of two children in gilded frame, [n.d.]
95 x 82 mm. A young girl is seated and a boy is standing. Frame is ½ of a hinged
case which bears an illustration of an eagle with pendant.
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Box
Item#
Description
Series IX. Realia (cont’d)
Photographs of unidentified individuals (cont’d)
25
90
Portrait of a man in hinged case, [n.d.]
50 x 45 mm. Portrait has gold oval mat and velvet padding with decoration on
opposite side of case.
25
91
Portrait of a woman in hinged case, [n.d.]
50 x 45 mm. Portrait has a gold mat and velvet padding with decoration on
opposite side of case.
25
92
Portrait of a woman in one-half of a hinged case, [n.d.]
95 x 82 mm. Portrait has a gold mat.
25
93
Portrait of a seated man and woman in broken hinged case, [n.d.]
93 x 80 mm. Portrait has a gold mat and velvet padding with decoration on
opposite side of case.
25
94
Portrait of two young children, [n.d.]
92 x 80 mm
25
95
Portrait of two young girls, [n.d.]
92 x 80 mm
25
96
Two portraits of women in hinged case, [n.d.]
75 x 60 mm. Portraits have gold mats.
25
97
Portrait of a woman in a miniature gold metal frame, [n.d.]
42 x 35 mm
25
98
Portrait of a man in a wooden frame with gold mat, [n.d.]
73 x 58 mm
25
99
Portrait of a young woman holding a book?, [n.d.]
73 x 65 mm. Photograph appears to be hand colored.
25
100
Portrait of a young woman in hinged case, [n.d.]
73 x 61 mm. Portrait has a gold mat.
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Box
Item#
Description
27
28
29
Oversize Boxes
Oversize (15 x 12)
Oversize (18 x 14)
Oversize (32 x 25)
Jean M. Littell scrapbooks
Walter Littell scrapbook
Oversize items removed from throughout the collection
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APPENDIX A
GENEALOGICAL CHART 1
Morris Family Genealogy
Much of the following information is derived from genealogical notes in the collection by John
Stockton Littell (1870-1932), and his son, Walter Wilson Littell.
Individuals whose papers are in the collection are shown in bold.
Anthony Morris II (1654-1721) m. (1676) Mary Jones (d. 1688)
Anthony Morris III (1681/2-1763) m. (1704) Phoebe Guest (1685-1768)
Anthony Morris IV (1705-1780) m. (1752) Elizabeth Hudson (1721/2-1783)
Luke Morris (1760-1802) m. (1786) Ann Willing (1767-1853) (see Chart 2)
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GENEALOGICAL CHART 2
Shippen/Willing/Morris Family Genealogy
Numbers refer to birth order. Individuals whose papers are in the collection are shown in bold.
Edward Shippen (1639-1712)
Anne Shippen m. (1731) Charles Willing (1710-1754)
1. Thomas Willing (1731-1821)
2. Charles Willing (1738-1788) m. (1760) Elizabeth Hannah Carrington (1739/40-1795)
Ann Willing (1767-1853) m. (1786) Luke Morris (1760-1802)
1. Margaretta Hare Morris (1791-1867)
2. Thomas Willing Morris (1792-1852)
3. Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865)
4. Susan Sophia Morris (1800-1868) m. (1832) John Stockton Littell
(1806-1875) (see Chart 3)
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GENEALOGICAL CHART 3
Descendants of Stephen Littell and Susan Gardiner
Numbers refer to birth order. Individuals whose papers are in the collection are shown in bold.
Stephen Littell (1772-1818) m. (1796) Susan Gardiner (1777-1813)**
1. Eliakim Littell (1797-1870)
2. Susan Elton Littell Urmston (1799-1837)
3. Squier Littell (1803-1886), physician
4. John Stockton Littell (1806-1875) m. (1832) Susan Sophia Morris (1800-1868) (see
Chart 2)
1. Charles Willing Littell (1832-1895) m. Susan Lemmon
2. Harriet Hare Littell (1835-1885)
3. Thomas Gardiner Littell (1837-1911) m. (1867) Helen Arcadia Harrington (18481924)
1. John Stockton Littell (1870-1932) m. Gertrude Wilson (d. 1919) (see Chart 5)
2. Samuel Harrington Littell (1873-1967) m. Charlotte Mason (d. 1913); m.
Evelyn Tabor (d. 1969)
3. Elton Gardiner Littell (1877-1962) m. Anna Westcott
4. Helen Arcadia Littell (1880-1934)
5. Mary Morris Littell (1884-1984)
4. Margaretta Morris Littell (Meta) (1839-1848)
**
Stephen Littell was the third child of Capt. Eliakim Littell, Revolutionary War officer
who died in 1805; Susan Gardiner was the daughter of Thomas Gardiner [or Gardner]
and Susan Elton.
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GENEALOGICAL CHART 4
Harrington Family Genealogy
Numbers refer to birth order. Individuals whose papers are in the collection are shown in bold.
Richard Harrington (1772-1821)
Samuel Maxwell Harrington (1803-1865) m. (1836) Mary Lofland (1813-1871)*
1. Mary Elizabeth Harrington (1837-1928)
2. Annie Lofland Harrington, 1838-1839
3. Samuel Milby Harrington (1840-1878)
4. Lydia Burton Harrington (1842-1927)
5. Purnell Frederick Harrington (1844-1937) m. Maria (Mia) Ruán (d. 1926)
6. Richard Harrington (1847-1884)
7. Helen Arcadia Harrington (1848-1924) m. Thomas Gardiner Littell (see Chart 3)
8. Augustus Reybold Harrington (1850-1919)
9. Austin Harrington (1852-1907)
*
Mary Lofland was the daughter of Dr. Purnell Lofland (1793-1852) and Arcadia Milby
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GENEALOGICAL CHART 5
Morse/Wilson/Littell/Winslow Genealogy
Numbers refer to birth order. Individuals whose papers are in the collection are shown in bold.
David Morse (1819-1908) m. Elizabeth Miller
Jeanie Morse (1851-1921) m. (1875) Walter Townsend Wilson (1847-1908)
1. Margaret Wilson (1881-1953)
2. Gertrude Wilson (1877-1919) m. (1900) John Stockton Littell (1870-1932) (see
Chart 3)*
1. Thomas Gardiner Littell (1902-1929)
2. Margaret Littell (1903-1990)
3. Gertrude (Gretchen) Littell (1905-2003)
4. Walter Wilson Littell (1910-1995)
5. Helen Littell (b. 1914)
6. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow (b. 1918) m. 194? Julian D. Winslow
*
1.
Dallas Winslow
2.
Mary Winslow
3.
Helen Winslow
John Stockton Littell m. (1923) Estelle Sherman (1889-1978)
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APPENDIX B
Postcard Collection
Box 1 - United States
State
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Location
Desert
Grand Canyon
Navajo
Miscellaneous
New Castle County
Kent County
Sussex County
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Landmark
Brandywine Park
Churches
Delaware Memorial Bridge
Rodney Square
Winterthur
Miscellaneous
Dewey Beach
Lewes
Lewes -- Churches
Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth Beach – Cape Henlopen
Lighthouse
Miscellaneous
Disney World
Kennedy Space Center/N.A.S.A.
Miscellaneous
Covered Bridges
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Box 1 - United States (cont’d)
State
Location
Landmark
Massachusetts
Cape Cod
Martha’s Vineyard
Miscellaneous
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
Las Vegas
Miscellaneous
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Shore
Miscellaneous
New Mexico
New York
City
State
Miscellaneous
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
University of North Carolina
Wright Brothers
Miscellaneous
Box 2 - United States (cont’d)
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Longwood Gardens
Miscellaneous
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Beaufort
Charleston
Myrtle Beach
Miscellaneous
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Covered Bridges
Miscellaneous
Virginia
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Box 2 - United States (cont’d)
State
Location
Washington
Washington, District of Columbia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Box 2 - International
Country
Africa
Argentina
Aruba
Asia
Austria
Bahamas
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Chile
England
Egypt
France
Germany
Greece
Holland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Scotland
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
West Indies
Landmark
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Box 2 - Miscellaneous subjects
Ships
Promotional
Religious images
Miscellaneous images
Box 3 Post cards collected by Margaret Littell, 1927-1973
Numbered cards (#3-707) of scenes from a Europe (England, France, Italy)
plus a few unnumbered card from Europe
Works of art (museum work)
Keene, New Hampshire (including photograph post cards)
University of Virginia, Virginia, Jefferson, and Monticello
Silver Lake
Postcars sent by Mary Morris Littell
Postcards sent to sisters, Margaret and Mary Littell
*See Box 13 oversize postcards
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Appendix C
Bibliography of Books
1. Hymns Ancient and Modern for Use in the Services of the Church. London: William Clowes
and Sons, Limited.
Inscribed: “Helen A. Littell. Oxford, Jan. 22, 1894”
2. The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Our Lord.
Inscribed: T. G. Littell, Wilmington, July 1876
3. The Book of Common Prayer. New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1823.
Inscription: "To Elizabeth C. Morris, March, 11th, 1827, from her friend M. Stockton
Littell" and "T. G. Littell, July 1876"
4. The Book of Common Prayer. London: Oxford University Press, 1840.
Inscribed: "T. G. Littell, July, 1876"
5. The Book of Common Prayer. New York: Stanford and Swords, 1855.
Inscribed: "Elizabeth C. Morris 1855, to John S. Littell 1865, T. Gardiner Littell July,
1876"
6. Letters and Papers Relating Chiefly to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia:
Crissy and Markley, 1855.
Inscribed: "M. H. Morris"
7. Hymnal: According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of
America. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1871.
Inscribed: T. Gardiner Littell
8. Anderson, Hans, and Alice Havers (illustrator). The White Swans and Other Tales. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Company.
Inscribed: "Gertie from Uncle Clarence, Xmas 85"
9. Chapman, Frank M. What Bird Is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern
United States. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
Contains bookplate of Mary Morris Littell
10. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Works of J. Fenimore Cooper. New York: George P.
Putnam, 1850.
Inscribed: "Margaretta H. Morris from her aff. brother, J. S. Littell, Christmas 1850"
"Susan S. M. Littell" "T. G. Littell, 1876"
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11. Crane, Walter. The Baby's Opera. London: Frederick Warne & Company, Ltd.
Contains child's scribbles throughout
12. DeCou, George. Burlington: A Provincial Capital. New York: The Library Company of
Burlington, 1945.
13. Delaware, National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of. A Guide to Some
Historic Points in Delaware. Delaware, 1916.
Inscribed: "Rev. Littell"
14. Elliot, J.W. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Music by J.W. Elliot.
New York: McLoughlin Brothers.
Inscribed: "Mary M Littell, 1805 Market St., Wilmington, Del."
15. Finnemore, John. Peeps at Many Lands: Switzerland. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1926.
Inscribed: "Jean M. Littell, 15 South Main St., West Hartford. 1927" and "From Aunt
Evelyn." Also includes Jean M. Littell's bookplate and child's scribbles throughout book.
16. Fox, Nancy Littell. How to Put Joy into Geriatric Care. Bend: Geriatric Press, Inc., 1979.
17. _______________. You, Your Parent, and the Nursing Home. Bend: Geriatric Press, 1982.
Inscribed: "To Jean and the Winslows - Just Off the Press! Much Love, Nancy, Bend,
OR, Dec, 1982."
18. _______________. Under Crossfire: Sticky Issues in Healthcare. Bend: Geriatric Press,
Inc., 1985.
19. Gray, Asa, M.D. How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany. New
York: Ivison and Phinney, 1858.
Inscribed: "Elizabeth C. Morris from the author, June 1858 - Susan S. M. Littell, T. G.
Littell"
20. Graydon, Alexander. Memoirs of His Own Time. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston,
1846.
Contains a newspaper clipping regarding "The Bill of Knowledge" and is inscribed: "T.
Gardiner Littell from his father"
21. Keith, Charles P. The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: W.S. Sharp
Printing Company, 1883.
Inscribed: "T. Gardiner Littell, Oct. 1883"
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22. Littell, E. (Eliakim). Littell's Living Age. Boston: T.H. Carter and Company, 1844.
Inscribed: "John Stockton Littell, 15 October 1845"
23. ________________. Littell's Living Age. Boston: E. Littell and Comapny, 1849.
Inscribed: "[first name indecipherable] Littell, 23 February 1850," Harriet H. Littell, July
29, 1876"
24. Littell, John Stockton. The Historians and the English Reformation. London, 1910.
Inscribed: "Gertrude Wilson Littell, from J. S. L., 22 September 1910"
25. _________________. The Kingdom in Pictures. Keene: Littell, John Stockton, 1914.
Handwritten biographical information and Rev. Littell's obituary taped are found on the
inside front cover and a note from Jean Littell is laid in.
26. _________________. 500 Questions and Answers in Religion. Milwaukee: Morehouse
Publishing Company, 1931.
Inscribed: "H. A. Littell"
27. Scudamore, W. E. Steps to the Altar: A Manual of Devotions for the Blessed Eucharist.
New York: E. and J. B. Young & Company, n.d.
28. Waterson, Elizabeth. Churches in Delaware During the Revolution. Delaware: Historical
Society of Delaware, 1925.
Contains bookplate that states: "Presented to St. Anne's Parish by Rev. Percy Lowry
Donaghay, B.D., Rector, February 1908 to John S. Littell... [continued in handwriting] at
clericus meeting 20 Oct 1931, at St. Andrew's School, Middletown."
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APPENDIX D
Realia Listed by Family
Morris family
Box
26
Item #
Description
2
H. C. Hare letter to Margaretta Morris referring to Miss Dix and her visits
to examine penitentiaries, asylums, etc.
ALS, H. C. Hare, Philadelphia, November 19, [ca.1845] to Miss Margaretta
Morris, Germantown. Folded letter with red wax seal; postmark Phil’a Nov 19 / 5
cts
Note: Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), mental health reformer; published the results of
her work in “Memorials.” Among the memorials she prepared were those to New
Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1845.
26
3
19
5-1
26
5-2
Indian’s breast pin
“E.C. Morris Indian Breast Pin and two notes”
“A silver brooch made by an Indian and worn by the young Oneida chief who
studied at Nashota given to me by George Schetky.”
Note: Nashotah House, an Episcopal Seminary, Wisconsin
(http://www.nashotah.edu/) and excerpt from the diart of George P. Schetky:
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/usa/jlbreck/letters/02.html
See also items 12 and 14
George Washington’s coffin, lock(?) and signature
Small pine box with latch and hinge 1.25” x 2” with ink inscription inside
lid: “This box was made of the wood of Washington’s coffin” and ink inscription
in bottom “John S. Littell from E. C. Morris.”
Plus strands of hair under folded paper and cut signature of G.
Washington.
Folded paper note “Part of the coffin in which General Washington was interred
and from which he was taken to be placed in the marble sarcophagus in which he
now lies. The three hairs enclosed in the little box were given to me by Mrs.
Peters, one of Mr. Washington’s step-granddaughters. The autograph was cut
from a letter to General Leay (?) and given to me by his daughter, Mrs. William
Darlington of West Chester Pennsylvania – the whole to be given, after death to
my dear brother John S. Littell, a token of my sincere affection - E.C. Morris
January 19th, 1854.” Pencil addendum “The other hairs were given to me by
Rosalie E. Morris. The wood was made into two little boxes, one of which
accompanies this notice and is to be given to John S. Littell”
Note: Copyright 2004 The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
60(cg) Color Guard artifact of coffin
59(cg) Color Guard artifact, hair fragment
http://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/ArtifactsTOC.shtml
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Morris family (cont’d)
Box
26
Item #
Description
13
Two seals of the Committee of Safety
Two wax seals on paper cards.
“Seal of the Committee of Safety, 1776”
1. Inscription on verso “Seal of the Committee of Safety, now in the possession
of S. Milegan, descendant of Samuel Morris, Vice President of the Committee of
Safety, 1776. Purchased at the Great Central Fair, June 1864. M. H. Morris,
Germantown”
2. Inscription on verso: “Seal of the Council of Safety, now in the possession of
S. Milegan, descendant of Samuel Morris, who was Vice President of the Council,
1776. Purchased at the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, 1864. M. H. Morris”
19
14
Piece of metal from the exploded big gun of the U.S.S. Princeton
commanded by Captain R. F. Stockton
Metal fragment, 3.5cm
Paper label “A piece of the ‘Big Gun’ which exploded on board a U.S. steam
frigate Princeton, Captain R. F. Stockton. From yours respectfully George P.
Schetky. To Miss M. H. Morris 9th & George St.”
Note: http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/milepost_summer04.pdf
Re: Robert F. Stockton and steam power on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. See
also note for Item 3.
26
18
Washington’s hair and notes
Paper labeled “Washington’s hair” with enclosed hair
Envelope inscribed “The enclosed hair of Washington to be divided between my
dear(?) children Susan E. Fallon and C. Willing Littell, M.H. Morris”
ALS Lucy Harrison, Mill Wood PO, Clark County, Virginia to “My Dear
Cousin,” May 17th, n.y., 4 pp.
Outer envelope inscribed “Washington’s Hair & Letter explaining”
Excerpt from letter: “I send the piece of General Washington’s hair which I
promised to cousin Margaretta, it was presented to my Mother by Miss Nelly
Custis, his adopted daughter, & the grand-daughter of his wife. Miss Custis told
Momma she had given away so much of it, she could only give her a small piece.
If it does not make my letter too bulky I will put in the piece of paper which now
contains the hair, that she may see the old fashioned hand writing in which it is
labeled.”
26
34
Locks of hair (unidentified) in envelope
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ann W. Morris, German Town, Penn.
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Morris family (cont’d)
Box
21
Item #
Description
42
Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1806
ca. 3 x 5-1/2 inches, is apparently by Susan Sophia Morris, done in 1806
21
43
Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1808
ca. 6 x 7-1/4 inches, bears the name of Susanna E. Littell, and dated 1808
21
44
Small, wood-beaded cross from Dorothea Dix, n.d.
ca. 1-1/2 x 2 inches, with gold cube center engraved “MHM” on one side and
“from D. L. Dix” on the reverse.
21
45
Tortoiseshell veneered calling card case, ca. 1850
About 2-1/4 x 3 3/4 inches, lined in velvet, containing calling card printed: “Miss
M. H. Morris, Germantown” and penciled “Miss Johnson”
21
46
Framed Portrait of Elizabeth Carrington Morris, 1864
“Taken from photograph, 1864, given by me to M. H. Morris/ T.G. Littell/
[missing month] 20, 1879”
26
47
Dorothea Dix letter to Margaretta Hare Morris, n.d.
ALS 1p.
26
48A
Mary Roberdeau letters to Miss Elizabeth C. Morris, 1827-1828
Three ALSs, dated May 26, 1827, July 5, 1827, January 3, 1828; each is stamped
“Free” and franked with the signature of John Quincy Adams.
23
67
Framed silhouette of Richard Willing by John Miers, [n.d.]
162 x 140 mm. Black frame with oval gold trim which is typical of frames
created by Miers. On the verso a note states: “Richard Willing, brother of Chas.
[Charles] Willing and uncle to Ann Willing Morris." Printed on the back of the
frame: “Miers – Profile Painter & Jeweller…London.”
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Morse Family
Box
21
Item #
Description
49
Photograph of Jeanie Morse, ca. 1855
[Tintype?] in ornate gilt frame with red velvet, inside hinged box with mother-ofpearl inlay, approximately 3-1/2 x 4 inches
21
50
Small mother-of-pearl French calendar & notebook, ca. 1844
About 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, with note laid in, “Granny’s ? 1844 – French calendar
& notebook,” which includes a few autograph notes
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Littell Family
Box
19
Item #
Description
17
Two Egyptian figurines
Two [cast plaster ?] Egyptian figurines, 7.5cm and 5.5cm
Envelope addressed to “Rev. T. Gardiner Littell D. D., 1805 Market Street,
Wilmington, Delaware,” postmarked “Hartford, Conn. Apr. 12, 1893”
19
9-1
26
9-2
26
28
Early engravings by St. Memin, Philadelphia
Eight engravings “Drawn & engrav’d by St. Memin, Philad’a”
Includes six copies of an engraving of an unidentified male, one with note “I
know not who this was but certainly he was the father of Miss Watts, the likeness
is strong to her.” Plus one engraving of a male identified as Mr. Laneuville and
one engraving of a female identified as Mad. Soullier
Paper wrapper labeled: “Found among the papers of the late Miss Mary L. Watts.
J.S.L.” (John Stockton Littell)
Note: Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile Portrait in
America (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994). For Memin’s
portrait of Lewis: http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/contentarticle.asp?ArticleID=1098
20
37
One square piece of mother of pearl
5.5cm square of etched mother of pearl with attached string, buttons, and ring
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
38
Brass bracelet (embossed)
ca. 16cm long malleable bracelet
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
39
Pieces of mother of pearl
Includes two pieces from a card case and two carved buttons
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
Revolutionary bullets
Two bullets, 1.5cm and 2cm
Newsprint wrapping with paper label “Battle of Germantown, 1777”
with paper envelope addressed to Rev. Dr. Littell, St. John’s Rectory,
Wilmington, Delaware, postmarked Portland, Maine, Apr. 5 [18]90, labeled
“American Revolution Bullet”
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Littell Family (cont’d)
Box
20
Item #
Description
40
Red ribbon garters with attached mother-of-pearl fish
Two red ribbon garters with attached mother-of-pearl carved in the shape of fish.
One ribbon is a faded red, the other deep red.
Note: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese
items
20
41
Carved ivory
Includes one carved box and five carved pieces
26
47
Dorothea Dix letter
1867 Sep 4
ALS
3pp.
to Mr. Littell
26
48B
Millard Fillmore letter to John S. Littell, 1855 Mar 17
ALS, 4pp. Written from Buffalo, NY to Littell of Germantown, PA.
Removed from F39A.
21
51
Baby slippers, n.d.
A small pair of handmade Chinese embroidered slippers, ca. 4 inches long
21
52
Rev. T. Gardner Littell (1837-1911)
Oval portrait (painted?) of T. Gardner Littell signed by [G de Ajuria] with oval
wooden case
22
55
Yellow and black triangle puzzle
88 mm square. With original wooden container, parts detached, marked on the
verso: "C. Willing Littell from his dear sister Meta [Margaretta Morris Littell]
Christmas Day 1843."
22
56
Seven carved ivory items, [n.d.]
Includes a long armed cup and ball toy (140 mm long), an engraved stamp with
“Littell” etched on the top of the handle, and five other pieces of unidentified
purpose
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Littell Family (cont’d)
Box
22
Item #
Description
59
Dried flowers in decorative frame, 1867
135 x 105 mm. Frame “patented Aug. 7, 1855.” A note of the verso states: “T.
G. & H. A. L.’s [Helen Harrington] wedding flowers – on back of flowers it says
“St. John’s Church June 11th 1867 Wilmington De. (Thomas Gardiner Littell and
Helen Harrington) Rector of St. John’s Church, Wilmington, De.”
22
60
Miniature brass telescope, 1845
Container 85 mm long. Housed in paper container, the telescope has a green
exterior and is marked "T. [Thomas] Gardiner Littell. Christmas 1845. From his
Mother."
23
62
The Improved and Illustrated Game of Dr. Busby, [1843]
W. & S. B. Ives. Salem: MA, [1843]
Incomplete set of 11 illustrated cards with directions of Miss Anne W. Abbott’s
game. An early edition housed in an envelope postmarked Mar 24 1909
addressed to Mr. T. Gardiner Littell and marked “Cards Game of Dr. Busby.”
24
69
Metal monogram block bearing the initials M.M.L. [1827]
26 mm square. The block is housed in a box marked "1827,” “MML” and
“Littell.”
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Harrington family
Box
28
Item #
Description
53
Silver goblet, 1856
185 mm tall. Engraved inscription reads: “Presented by John C. Smith at
Washington City to Samuel M. Harrington Jr. of Delaware College, Newark, 24
July 1856.” See F27
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Winslow Family
Box
23
Item #
Description
64
Red case with playing cards, [n.d.]
125 x 30 x 10 mm. The case originally housed two decks of cards but one deck is
present. The deck of bridge cards is illustrated with an aerial view of the DuPont
estate of Granogue. The deck is unopened and affixed is a stamp “playing cards 1
pack U.S. Int. Rev.”
23
65
Brown wallet-style buttoned case with playing cards, [n.d.]
130 x 105 x 25 mm. The case has an illustration and words “Merry Christmas
from Granogue” in gold on the cover. The case includes two decks of playing
cards illustrated with an aerial view of Granogue on one side, plus a pencil and a
partially used bridge score pad.
23
66
Brown buttoned case with playing cards, [n.d.]
100 x 70 x 55 mm. The top of the case has an illustration and “Merry Christmas
from Granogue” in gold. The case includes two decks of cards, one with an aerial
view of Granogue and a second deck with a view of an ocean-front estate.