GEORGE BURTON PEARSON, JR · Web viewBlack 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

D R A F T R E L E A S E

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.

Littell - 2

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."

Littell - 3

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 (1806-

1875) 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

Littell - 4

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.

Littell - 5

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.

Littell - 6

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 1832-

1855, 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.

Littell - 7

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 (1880-

1934) 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.

Littell - 8

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

Littell - 9

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.

Littell - 10

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.

Littell - 11

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,

Littell - 12

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

Littell - 13

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 leather-

bound 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.

Littell - 14

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

Littell - 15

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

Littell - 16

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-twentieth-

century 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.

Littell - 17

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

Littell - 18

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,

Littell - 19

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.

Littell - 20

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.

Littell - 21

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.

Littell - 22

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. John Stockton Littell (1870-1932) 312. Thomas Gardiner Littell (1902-1929) Papers 333. Walter Wilson Littell (1910-1995) Genealogy Notes 36

VI. Winslow Family Papers 37

1. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers 372. Julian D. Winslow Research Notes 383. Helen L. Winslow 414. J. Dallas Winslow, Jr. 415. Mary Peters Winslow Reddick 41

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

Littell - 23

Box Folder Description

1 Series I. Morris Family Papers, 1808-1865

Genealogical informationF1 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

F2 Thomas Willing genealogy, 1786, Transcript, 2 copies, 1985Account of Thomas Willing’s “family and stock from which I am descended,” transcribed by Walter Wilson Littell, two typed copies.

F3 Willing marriages and births, undatedPhotocopies of handwritten record of marriages and births pertaining to the Willing, Carrington, and Alleyne families.

F4 Extract of letter from General Wayne, c. 1850Handwritten copy of part of a letter from Gen. Wayne to Col. Johnston, originally dated 1730, by unidentified copyist.

Ann Willing Morris, 1767-1853F5 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.

F6 “Christmas Offering,” 1839A 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, 1791-1867F7 “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.

F8 Letters, c. 1830-1850Includes 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.

F9 Manuscripts on cicada, c. 1840sPortions of Margaret’s handwritten notes and articles

F10 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1846-1849Includes 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.

Littell - 24


1 Series I. Morris Family Papers (cont’d)

Elizabeth Carrington Morris, 1795-1865F11 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.

F12 “Offerings of Friendship,” 1826-1864Includes calligraphy, watercolors, sketches, a poem handwritten by Dorothea Dix, and other original and copied writing.

F13 Copybook, 1829-1831Marbled 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.

F14 Copybook, 1832-1856Inscribed “A Thing of Shreds and Patches,” “Elizabeth C. Morris, January, 1832”; contains letters, a map, an index and hand-numbered pages.

F15 Items removed from copybook, 1832-1856Between Pages 188-189Several verses meant to be copied into book, parlor games, magic tables, miniature verse booklet by John Stockton Littell (I).

F16 Copybook, “Elizabeth C. Morris, January 1857,” 1857-1864Marble cover, fragile condition, many items laid in.

F17 Notebook from Harriet C. Hare, 1835-1865Includes 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.

F18 Contributions to the American Agriculturist, 1844-1847Articles 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, 1800-1868F19 Letter from Eliza Powell, 1822

Littell - 25


1 Series II. Harrington Family Papers, 1821-1964 (Bulk dates 1850-1878)

Harrington Family Letters, 1821-1878Primarily 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.

F20 Harrington family letters, 1821-1863Letters 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.

F21 Harrington family letters, 1864-1867Correspondence 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.

F22 Samuel Maxwell Harrington, 1865Typed transcriptions of three letters written by Samuel M. Harrington to son, Fred, in 1865.

F23 Harrington family letters, 1868Primarily letters by P. F. Harrington to Maria N. Ruán during their courtship. Includes some of their correspondence with other family members.

2 F24 Harrington family letters, 1869-1873P. 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.

F25 Harrington family letters, 1877-1878Samuel 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.

F26 Helen Arcadia Harrington, “Album of Love,” 1861-1871Autograph album with signatures of family members and friends.

Samuel Milby HarringtonF27 Silver goblet presented for “Best Essay on Our Nation's Greatness,” 1856F28 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.

F29 Genealogy materialsGenealogical 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.

Littell - 26


2 Series III. John Stockton Littell (1806-1875) Family Papers, 1826-1895

Eliakim Littell, 1797-1870F30 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”

F31 Philadelphia Mail and Universal Literary and General Advertiser, 1830Advertising 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.

F32A Le Courrier des Etats-Unis, New York, 1828Political 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.

F32B To the Federalists, 1828 Aug 20Pamphlet, print no. 97 by the Philadelphia Gazette which bears handwritten “J. S. Littell” (I) on the front page.

F32C Newspapers and tear sheets, 1826-1935Includes 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

F32D The Ulster County Gazette, 1800 Jan 4Reprint with clipping and information. Removed to oversize

F32E Public Ledger (Philadelphia), 1836 Mar 25Removed to oversize

F33 The Yankee; and Boston Literary Gazette, January 22, 1829An 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.

F34 Littell’s Living Age, 1879-1881A 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.”

Littell - 27


2 Series III. John Stockton Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)

Susan Sophia Morris Littell, 1800-1868F35 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.

F36 “Susan S. Morris's Album & Scrapbook,” 1826-1860Begun 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

F37 “The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures,” 1837Written 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”

F38 Letters, 1850, 1867Letter (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), 1806-1875F39A U. S. President Millard Fillmore letter to John S. Littell (I), 1855 Mar 17

ALS, 4pp. Removed to vault – Box 26 item #48BF39B 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 20Printed text of a 4th of July address by J. S. Littell (I). Removed to oversize

F40 Burlington College commencement address, 1853Contains printed copy of the address, “Portrait of Bishop Doane,” published in 1859, and a clipping about the commencement

F41 “Rhymes No.__ for Harriet,” 1826-1875Original poems by John Stockton Littell (I); letter dated 1875, clipping

F42 John Stockton Littell (I) copybook, 1825-1826Marbled leather binding, good condition, containing original and copied poetry

F43 Littell/Morris wedding announcements and obituary, 1832, 1868Clippings from the National Gazette and Literary Register

F44 Copies of letters and genealogy, 1824, 1847F45 “Early History of the Church in New York City,” 1869

Littell - 28


2 Series III. John Stockton Littell Family Papers (cont’d)

Harriet Hare Littell, 1835-1885F46 “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

3 F47 Copybook/scrapbook, c. 1830-1876Includes 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.

F48 Scrapbook, c. 1830-1876Contains 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, 1895Contains 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, 1887Contains 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)

T. Gardiner Littell (I), 1837-1911F51 “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)

F52 Correspondence, 1858-1909Includes a letter from A. Felix du Pont concerning St. John’s Church, Wilmington, DE

F53 Ordination to the Episcopal priesthood, 1859

Littell - 29


Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)T. Gardiner Littell (I) (cont’d)

3F54 “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.

F55 “Scrap Book 2,” c. 1870-1900Clippings on religious subjects pasted over an old account book.

F56 St. John's Church, Wilmington, DE, 1866-1894Clippings and ephemera, including a “List of Saloon Passengers” aboard Cunard Line's R.M.S. Etruria, 1894

F57 Delaware College Honorary Doctor of Divinity certificate, 1885Includes 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.

F58 Copies of letters to F. G. du Pont, 1884-1904Originals are in the du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum and Library.

F59 Printed sermons and publications, c. 1880-1908F60 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.

F61 Record of securities deposited at Fidelity Bank, New York, NY, c. 1900-1909F62 Received income, 1902-1911F63 “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.

F64 Financial notebook, “Book 4,” 1910-1925Includes 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.

4 F65 Letters from George Elliott, Attorney, 1906-1910F66 Fiftieth anniversary of ordination, 1909

Clippings and articles from The Delaware ChurchmanF67 Obituaries, 1911

Littell - 30


Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)T. Gardiner Littell (I) (cont’d)

4F68 Indentures and deed, 1899, 1911, 1912

Papers on three properties owned by T. Gardiner Littell (I)F69 Sons of American Revolution, 1934

Copy of officers’ list of the Delaware Society, listing T. Gardiner Littell (I) as chaplain

F70 Church of the Holy Trinity, Jefferson, NY, 1959-1960Typewritten notes and copy of the booklet

F71 History of Christ Church, Dover, DE, 1985Paper bulletin with historical information on previous pastors, lists T. Gardiner Littell (I) for 1865-1866

Helen Harrington Littell, 1848-1924F72 Letters, 1866-1872F73 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. LittellF74 English cathedrals, 1898

Scrapbook containing photographs purchased on their European trip.F75 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.

F76 Letters from China, from Helen to Mary, 1914-1915F77 “China’s Ancient Medical Practice,” 1933

Typewritten manuscript in notebook, titled “China’s Ancient Medical Practice. Current Events – New Century Club Nov. 14th, 1933.”

F78 Helen Arcadia Littell obituaries, 1934F79 Mary Morris Littell’s application to Colonial Dames of America, 1929F80 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.

F81 Notebook of accounts, 1952-1958Probably a household account book belonging to Mary.

Littell - 31


Series IV. Rev. Thomas Gardiner Littell (I) Family Papers (cont’d)4

Elton Gardiner LittellF82 Letters and stock certificates, 1912-1923F83 Obituaries, 1962

Samuel Harrington LittellF84 Ethel Harrington postcard, 1888

Postcard to Harrington Littell from his cousin, the daughter of Adm. P. F. Harrington.

F85 Biographical information, 1934-1991Clippings, typewritten notes, and printed items.

F86 Letters to Winslows, 1959-1963F87 Family letters and clippings, 1921-1998

Includes postcards from, printed items, and clippings about Harrington Littell and his family.

F88 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

Series V.1. John Stockton Littell (II)F89 Autograph book, 1883-1886F90 Rugby Academy compositions, 1885-1886F91 Leather-bound notebook of family genealogy, c. 1910F92 Notebook of religious art, c. 1900F93 “500 Questions and Answers in Religion: Memory Gems,” manuscript, n.d.F94 Published articles, 1911, 1931

Littell - 32


4 Series V. Rev. John Stockton Littell (II) Family Papers (cont’d)SeriesV.1. John Stockton Littell (II) (cont’d)

F95 Historical work, [n.d.]Contains an advertisement, with review comments, for The Historians and the English Reformation

F96 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

F97 Clippings and copies re: wedding, ordination, and career, c. 1893-1930F98 Obituaries, 1932F99 Letters to and from family and friends, c. 1890-1931F100 John Stockton (II) and Gertrude Wilson Littell correspondence, 1899-1904

Gertrude Wilson Littell, 1877-1919F101 Letters to and from parents and family, c. 1889-1912

Contains a postcard about the 1893 Centennial Exposition in ChicagoF102 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. 1900F104 “Our Wedding Souvenir,” 1900F105 Daughters of the American Revolution papers (copies), 1974F106 Obituary, 1919

F107 Letter to Jennie [Jeanie] Morse, c. 1870

F108 Wilson family, c. 1895-1900Typewritten transcriptions of letters from Margaret Wilson; fragment of Gertrude’s music book

Littell - 33


4 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 LittellSee also the postcards in Box 16

F110 Letters from family, c. 1920-1932F111 Recital programs, clippings, letters, 1941-1990

Includes an appraisal of family heirlooms

F112 Gertrude Littell and daughter, Christine Littell Adler, 1963-2003Includes 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, 1895-1967Includes 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 lace-trimmed, hand-colored card bearing the name, “Johnnie”; and an embossed card

Series V.2. T. Gardiner Littell (II) Diaries and Papers, 1915-1929This 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.

DiariesF116 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.

Littell - 34


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),” 1917-1918F119 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, 1919He 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, 1919F122 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, 1925Professor Arthur Schlesinger’s course taught in the “German style”

Littell - 35


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, 1925Harvard 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, 1926Bound, paper cover labeled “IRA déposé”; travel and study in Avignon, Marseilles, in Italy, and at the Sorbonne

F133 Volume XVII, “Travels,” Mar-Sep, 1926Table 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, 1927Table 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, 1927Contains 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, 1928Hears Toscanini in Carnegie Hall (p. 38); Vladimir Horowitz concert program

F138 Volume XXII, “Summer Vacation, Harvard Graduate School,” Jul 1928-Jan 1929F139 Volume XXIII, “Harvard Graduate School,” 1929

Littell - 36


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 papersF141A Papers from English A, section 15, 1920-1921F141B Work done for studies, 1921-1924F142 A short story, [n.d.]F143 Harvard Crimson editorials, poetry, miscellaneous writing, 1922-1924F144 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, 1922-1995Includes 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. 1850One appears to be Major General John A. Dix

F147 Genealogy notes I - Thomas Willing genealogy (1786), 1985Typed transcript

F148 “Entry of Expenses St. Martin’s Church, Salisbury,” 1906F149 Genealogy notes II – Walter Townsend WilsonF150 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. 1830F152 “Our Historical Articles,” [n.d.]

Typed transcriptsF153 Articles about Germantown

Littell - 37


Series VI. Winslow Family Papers, 1881-2004

Subseries VI.1. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers, 1881-20036

Correspondence, 1931-2000Includes 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 1931-1978F155 1980-2000F156 Camp letters, 1956-1962

F157 Passports, 1936 and 1984F158 School letter and Baptism record, 1930-1933F159 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 postcardsF161 Photograph book “Memories of the Western Highlands,” 1936F162 School project notebook on English history, [1930s]

Includes a few photographsF163 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, 1929-1932F165 Chi Omega Alumnae – program and directory, 1956-1957F166 Clippings, notes, memorabilia, 1881-2003

Includes programs, notes, information about Bishop Littell, a furniture list, and clippings

F167 Genealogy notebooks IF168 Genealogy notebooks IIF169 Genealogy notebooks IIIF170 Memoir of the Gardiner family, 1883F171 Information on family portraits at Winterthur, PA Museum of Art, and Yale,

1970-1992F172 Information about Littells at Trinity College, 2000

Littell - 38


Series VI. Winslow Family Papers (cont’d)Subseries VI.1. Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Papers (cont’d)

6 F173 Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3, 5, 8, 1972-1976F174 Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 2, Nos. 3, 5-8, 1977-1980F175 Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 3, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 1980-1982F176 Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 4, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 1985-1988F177 Littell’s Living Age, Sec. 2, Vol. 5-7, 1992-1999

Finding Poetry in Every Day Life, 2002Book of poetry written by Jean Morse Littell Winslow.

F178 Notebook of handwritten poems, 1999-2001F179 Typescript (computer) draft, 2002 Jun 24F180 Typescript (computer) drafts, 2002 Sep 24F181 Typescript (computer) draft, [2002]

Titled “A Potpourri of Poems”F182 Typescript (computer) draft, 2002 Nov 18F183 Typescript (computer) draft, [2002]

Note of title page: “Last book before publication…”

Series VI.2. Julian Winslow research notes and personal papers, 1943-2004Research 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.

F184 Abolition and Notes from Delaware Gazette (1820s), c. 1980F185 Townsend, SamuelF186 Bayard, James A.F187 Seward, William HenryF188 Popular SovereigntyF189 Commissioners

7 F190 Wilmot ProvisonF191 Hazzard, Clayton, Harrington Letters & Papers, copiesF192 Compromise of 1850F193 Dred Scott DecisionF194 Delaware RailroadF195 Delaware Gazette Notes on Succession

Littell - 39


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, 1754-1900Roll 50: 1863 Appointments & Commission to 1864 LighthouseRoll 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 ResearchF199 “The Harrington Family,” by P. F. Harrington, 1993F200 “Hosanna for Judge Harrington, His Associates, and Friends,” [n.d.]

“Chancellor Harrington, His Family, Friends, and Associate,” 1992F201 Part IF202 Part II

F203 “Delaware Says ‘Thank You, Judge Harrington,’” [1990s]

“Samuel Maxwell Harrington: a Pioneer Judge,” 1993F204 Typescript (copy)F205 Typescript (copy)F206 Original typescript/setting copy, 1993

8 F207 Correspondence, reviews, publicity, 1992-2001

Littell - 40


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 Computer diskettes, 1998-2000F209 Early version, [n.d.]F210 Typescript (computer), [n.d.]F211 Typescript (computer), [n.d.]

Missing pages 1-6 and title page.F212 Typescript (computer), [n.d.]

Possible setting copy with notesF213 Erratum sheets for book, [n.d.]F214 Correspondence and reviews, 2000-2002F215 “Thomas Harrison, Millenarian,” 1986

Family genealogical researchF216 “Journal of Thomas Nicholson,” [n.d.]

Includes “Nicholson Family History,” (1979)F217 Lofland genealogy, 1990-2001

Littell familyF218 John Stockton Littell (I) notesF219 “John Stockton Littell (I),” n.d.F220 Edward Littell, 1943 and 2001

Winslow familyF221 “Ancestors of Julian D. Winslow,” n.d.

Family tree – laminated copy removed to oversize.F222 Correspondence and notes, 1957-1959F223 Correspondence and notes, 1960F224 Correspondence and notes, 1961-1962F225 Correspondence and notes, 1963-1965F226 Correspondence and notes, 1966F227 Index card, [n.d.]F228 Joseph Winslow (North Carolina), 1970s-1980s

Littell - 41


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 The Origin Perquimans County, North Carolina Winslows,” 1957-1969F230 Edward WinslowF231 Jamaica VassallsF232 Governor’s Register, 1962-1983F233 Arthur J. Winslow, 1965-1982F234 Francis E. Winslow, 1953-1964F235 Kenelm Winslow, 1959-1996F236 Samuel and Joseph Winslow (copies), 1674-1761

Some photocopies removed to oversize.F237 Correspondence with Mrs. A. Waldo Jones, 1959-1987F238 Notes, 1956-1999F239 Notes, 1960-1987F240 Notes, 1959-1994F241 Notes, 1955-1999F242 Resources, 1997-2000

Includes a copy of The Archive Photographs Series: Winslows (1997)F243 Delaware Mayflower Society, 1957-1999F244 Sons of the American Revolution, 2003

Julian D. Winslow personal papers, 1931-2004F245 Passport and certificates, 1984-1992F246 Correspondence, clippings, programs, 1931-1955F247 Correspondence, resumes, programs, notes, 1966-2004

Series VI.3. Helen L. Winslow, 1970-2004Daughter of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow

F248 Correspondence, programs, 1970-2001F249 InRe: the Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, 1998-2000F250 InRe: the Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, 2001-2004

Series VI.4. J. Dallas Winslow, Jr., 1962-2003Son of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow

F251 Correspondence, clippings, campaign flyers, 1962- 2003

Series VI.5. Mary Peters Winslow Reddick, 1958-1999Daughter of Julian D. and Jean Morse Littell Winslow

F252 Correspondence and clippings, 1958-1999

Littell - 42


Series VII. Photographs and Postcards, 1850-1973Series VII.1. Photographs, 1850-1972

10John Stockton Littell (I) family

F253 John Stockton Littell (I) family portraits, c. 1850-1860Four 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. 1860Framed in veneered wood frame, carved and painted, removed to Box 12

Harrington familyF255 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. 1850-1935Six 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) familyF257 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, 1896-1902Six 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. 1880F260 European trip, 1894

Five items; including two photographs of dogsF261 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.”

Littell - 43


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. 1894-1915Snapshots 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. LittellF264 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. 1895-1920Twelve 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. 1914-1930Subjects 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 & 1929Two portraits

Samuel Harrington LittellF268 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. 1929Four 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.

Littell - 44


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. 1930-1950Six 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. 1940Four items; depict interior and exterior of church, Chinese furnishings and rugs in the house.

John Stockton Littell (II) and familyF272 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.

F273 Family photographs, c. 1915-1929Five items; include group photographs of family boating, Christmas 1926, Silver Lake.

F274 Family homes, c. 1918-1932Six 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.

F275 Rehoboth and Lewes, Delaware, c. 1930Fifteen 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 ancestorsF276 Morse ancestors, c. 1870-1895F277 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, 1897-1900Two 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

Littell - 45


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 ancestorsF280 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 LittellF282 Gardiner (II) and Margaret Littell baby portraits, 1902-1905

12 Helen LittellF283 Helen Littell Derbyshire, 1955

Two portraits

13 F284 “My Trip Abroad – 1928-June – September-1928 – Helen Littell,” 1928-1936Photograph 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 LittellF285 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,” 1924-1937Photograph 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).

Littell - 46


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,” 1878-1927Photograph 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, 1929-1940Two items; a portrait Walter as a Yale freshman and with his wife, Virginia

12 F289 Capt. Eliakim Littell Monument, Springfield, New Jersey, c. 1972Two snapshots

Winslow FamilyJeanie Morse Littell Winslow

12 F290 Jeanie Morse Littell Winslow Childhood Snapshots, c. 1920s13 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.

13 F292 “Jeanie Morse Littell – Her Book – Keene – Sept. 1918,” 1918-1935Photograph 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, 1949-1960sTwo items

12 F294 Four unidentified photographs, c. 1870-1910

Littell - 47


Series V.II. Photographs and Postcards

Series VII.2. Post cardsSee Appendix A for a detailed list.

14 United States -- Arizona to Washington D.C.15 United States -- Miscellaneous States and Images to International

Oversize postcards removed to Box 1316 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. BooksSee Appendix B for a detailed list.

17 Items 1-1718 Items 18-28

Littell - 48

Box Item# Description

Series IX. RealiaItems housed in the vault.

26 1 Edward E. Everett’s hairPaper wrapper labeled “Edward E. Everett’s hair” enclosing snip of hairNote: 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 ctsNote: 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 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.htmlSee also items 12 and 14

19 4 Lord Byron’s hairLock of hair with paper label in small box.Box label “Geo. W. Taylor, No. 94 Chestnut Street, Phil’a. Manufacturer of silver thimbles...”

http://www.nashotah.edu/

Littell - 49


Series IX. Realia (cont’d)

George Washington’s coffin, lock(?) and signature19 5-1 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.”

26 5-2 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 coffin59(cg) Color Guard artifact, hair fragmenthttp://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/ArtifactsTOC.shtml

19 6A Tiffany & Co. pendant made from a piece of the first trans Atlantic cableCable fragment pendant in box 1.25” x 1.75”; original box label “Tiffany & Company ...” Tiffany & Company Atlantic Cable - 1858 Tiffany marketed souvenirsNote: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Souvenirs/Cane/

http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/com/atcabE.html6B “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 bulletsPaper label, “Battle of (Germantown?) 1777”Bullet embedded in sediment

19 7-2 Washington elmSlice 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

http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/com/atcabE.html

http://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/legal/LegalIndex.shtml

Littell - 50



19 8 Penn wainscotingWood 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 Revolutionary bulletsTwo bullets, 1.5cm and 2cm

26 9-2 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 coffinWood 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 barleyPaper 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 LakeIndian arrowhead with paper label “Indian arrowhead, Nashotah Lake”See note to item 3

http://www.commonwealthinst.org/

Littell - 51



26 13 Two seals of the Committee of SafetyTwo 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, 3.5cmPaper 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.pdfRe: Robert F. Stockton and steam power on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. See also note for Item 3.

26 15 Indian arrowheads24 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 figurinesTwo [cast plaster?] Egyptian figurines, 7.5cm and 5.5cmEnvelope addressed to “Rev. T. Gardiner Littell D. D., 1805 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware,” postmarked “Hartford, Conn. Apr. 12, 1893”

http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/milepost_summer04.pdf

Littell - 52



26 18 Washington’s hair and notesPaper labeled “Washington’s hair” with enclosed hairEnvelope 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 badgeRibbon, 27cm x 5.5cm, commemorating Lafayette’s visit to Pennsylvania (1824-1825)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/memorabiliacollection3.htm

19 20 Pompeii pavement mosaicBlack 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 wainscotingWood 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 pavementEmbedded 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”

Littell - 53



20 23 Fragments of the monument to Wolfe and MontcalmSmall 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 BellsAutographed 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 ConstitutionFiber specimen, 5cm x 1cmPaper 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 noteLast 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, PhiladelphiaEight 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. SoullierPaper 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/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1098

Littell - 54



26 29 Paper currency issued by Assembly of the State of Delaware, May 1, 1777Eight notes, signed and numberedIncludes 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, 51069Plus 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 1874Note: Maryland Currency, 4/10/1774 athttp://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/MD-04-10-74.htmlContinental Currency, 2/26/1777 athttp://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/CC-02-26-77.html

26 31 Eight bank notes, issued generally in the 1830s-1840s1. Florida. Bank of Florida, Tallahassee, Ten Dollars, 1/15/18362. Pennsylvania. North Hampton Bank, Five Dollars, 2/24/18363. Michigan. Farmers Bank of Genesee County, Ten Dollars, 1/18384. Ohio. Bank of West Union, Ten Dollars, 9/1/18385. Mississippi. The Bank of Port Gibson, Fifty Dollars, 10/18/18386. Mississippi. Mississippi Rail Road Company, Ten Dollars, 6/15/18397. Pennsylvania. Bank of Susquehanna County, Five Dollars, 9/10/18418. New York. Oswego County Bank, Five Dollars, 10/1/1849

20 32 Copy of the New York Morning Post of Friday, November 7, 1783Volume III, No. 155, printed by Morton and Horner, 4 pp.

Littell - 55



26 33 Twenty-nine notes of Confederate Currency, including two from the state of Florida

1. (2) Confederate States of America, 50 Cents, Richmond, 2/1/18642. (9) Confederate States of America, 10 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/18643. (10) Confederate States of America, 20 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/18644. (1) Confederate States of America, 50 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/18645. (5) Confederate States of America, 100 Dollars, Richmond, 2/17/18646. (2) State of Florida, 50 Cents, Tallahassee, 2/2/1863

26 34 Locks of hair (unidentified) in envelopeEnvelope addressed to Mrs. Ann W. Morris, German Town, Penn.

20 35 EyeglassesThree 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 pearl5.5cm square of etched mother of pearl with attached string, buttons, and ringNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

20 38 Brass bracelet (embossed)ca. 16cm long malleable braceletNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

20 39 Pieces of mother of pearlIncludes two pieces from a card case and two carved buttonsNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

20 40 Red ribbon garters with attached mother-of-pearl fishTwo 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

Littell - 56



20 41 Carved ivoryIncludes one carved box and five carved pieces

21 42 Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1806ca. 3 x 5-1/2 inches, is apparently by Susan Sophia Morris, done in 1806

21 43 Small cross stitch on linen sampler, 1808ca. 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. 1850About 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. to Margaretta Hare Morris1867 Sep 4 ALS 3pp. to Mr. Littell

26 48A Mary Roberdeau letters to Miss Elizabeth C. Morris, 1827-1828Three 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 17ALS, 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-of-pearl inlay, approximately 3-1/2 x 4 inches

Littell - 57



21 50 Small mother-of-pearl French calendar & notebook, ca. 1844About 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 family28 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

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 puzzle88 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

Littell - 58



22 59 Dried flowers in decorative frame, 1867135 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, 1845Container 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.

Littell - 59



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"

Littell - 60



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

Photographs of unidentified individuals25 86 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.

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.

Littell - 61


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.

Littell - 62


Oversize Boxes27 Oversize (15 x 12) Jean M. Littell scrapbooks28 Oversize (18 x 14) Walter Littell scrapbook29 Oversize (32 x 25) Oversize items removed from throughout the collection

Littell - 63

APPENDIX AGENEALOGICAL 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)

Littell - 64

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)

Littell - 65


Descendants of Stephen Littell and Susan Gardiner


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 (1848-1924)

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.

Littell - 66


Harrington Family Genealogy


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

Littell - 67


Morse/Wilson/Littell/Winslow Genealogy


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)

Littell - 68

APPENDIX BPostcard Collection

Box 1 - United States

State Location LandmarkAlaskaArizona Desert

Grand CanyonNavajoMiscellaneous

ArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelaware New Castle County Brandywine Park

ChurchesDelaware Memorial BridgeRodney SquareWinterthurMiscellaneous

Kent CountySussex County Dewey Beach

LewesLewes -- Churches Rehoboth BeachRehoboth Beach – Cape Henlopen

LighthouseMiscellaneous

Florida Disney World Kennedy Space Center/N.A.S.A.Miscellaneous

GeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndiana Covered BridgesIowaKansasLouisianaMaineMaryland

Littell - 69

Box 1 - United States (cont’d)

State Location LandmarkMassachusetts Cape Cod

Martha’s VineyardMiscellaneous

MichiganMissouriMontanaNevada Las Vegas

MiscellaneousNew HampshireNew Jersey Shore

MiscellaneousNew MexicoNew York City

StateMiscellaneous

North Carolina Cape Hatteras LighthouseUniversity of North CarolinaWright BrothersMiscellaneous

Box 2 - United States (cont’d)OklahomaOregonPennsylvania Gettysburg

Longwood GardensMiscellaneous

Rhode IslandSouth Carolina Beaufort

CharlestonMyrtle BeachMiscellaneous

South DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermont Covered Bridges

MiscellaneousVirginia

Littell - 70

Box 2 - United States (cont’d)

State Location LandmarkWashingtonWashington, District of ColumbiaWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming

Box 2 - InternationalCountryAfricaArgentinaArubaAsiaAustriaBahamasBelgiumBermudaBrazilCanadaChileEnglandEgyptFranceGermanyGreeceHollandIsraelItalyJamaicaMexicoNew ZealandNorwayPortugalPuerto RicoScotlandSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUnion of Soviet Socialist RepublicsWest Indies

Littell - 71

Box 2 - Miscellaneous subjectsShipsPromotionalReligious imagesMiscellaneous images

Box 3 Post cards collected by Margaret Littell, 1927-1973Numbered cards (#3-707) of scenes from a Europe (England, France, Italy)

plus a few unnumbered card from EuropeWorks of art (museum work)Keene, New Hampshire (including photograph post cards)University of Virginia, Virginia, Jefferson, and MonticelloSilver LakePostcars sent by Mary Morris LittellPostcards sent to sisters, Margaret and Mary Littell

*See Box 13 oversize postcards

Littell - 72

Appendix CBibliography 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"

Littell - 73

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"

Littell - 74

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."

Littell - 75

APPENDIX DRealia Listed by Family

Morris family

Box Item # Description26 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 ctsNote: 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 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.htmlSee also items 12 and 14

George Washington’s coffin, lock(?) and signature19 5-1 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.”

26 5-2 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 coffin59(cg) Color Guard artifact, hair fragmenthttp://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/ArtifactsTOC.shtml

http://www.amrev.org/htdocs/html/fm/legal/LegalIndex.shtml

http://www.nashotah.edu/

Littell - 76

Morris family (cont’d)

Box Item # Description26 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, 3.5cmPaper 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.pdfRe: Robert F. Stockton and steam power on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. See also note for Item 3.

26 18 Washington’s hair and notesPaper labeled “Washington’s hair” with enclosed hairEnvelope 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 envelopeEnvelope addressed to Mrs. Ann W. Morris, German Town, Penn.

http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/milepost_summer04.pdf

Littell - 77

Morris family (cont’d)

Box Item # Description21 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, 1808ca. 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. 1850About 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, 1827-1828Three 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.”

Littell - 78

Morse Family

Box Item # Description21 49 Photograph of Jeanie Morse, ca. 1855

[Tintype?] in ornate gilt frame with red velvet, inside hinged box with mother-of-pearl inlay, approximately 3-1/2 x 4 inches

21 50 Small mother-of-pearl French calendar & notebook, ca. 1844About 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, with note laid in, “Granny’s ? 1844 – French calendar & notebook,” which includes a few autograph notes

Littell - 79

Littell FamilyBox Item # Description19 17 Two Egyptian figurines

Two [cast plaster ?] Egyptian figurines, 7.5cm and 5.5cmEnvelope addressed to “Rev. T. Gardiner Littell D. D., 1805 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware,” postmarked “Hartford, Conn. Apr. 12, 1893”

19 9-1 Revolutionary bulletsTwo bullets, 1.5cm and 2cm

26 9-2 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”

26 28 Early engravings by St. Memin, PhiladelphiaEight 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. SoullierPaper 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/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1098

20 37 One square piece of mother of pearl5.5cm square of etched mother of pearl with attached string, buttons, and ringNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

20 38 Brass bracelet (embossed)ca. 16cm long malleable braceletNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

20 39 Pieces of mother of pearlIncludes two pieces from a card case and two carved buttonsNote: Originally housed in a box labeled: T. Gardiner Littell envelope–Chinese items

Littell - 80

Littell Family (cont’d)

Box Item # Description20 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 ivoryIncludes one carved box and five carved pieces

26 47 Dorothea Dix letter1867 Sep 4 ALS 3pp. to Mr. Littell

26 48B Millard Fillmore letter to John S. Littell, 1855 Mar 17ALS, 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 puzzle88 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

Littell - 81

Littell Family (cont’d)

Box Item # Description22 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, 1845Container 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.”

Littell - 82

Harrington family

Box Item # Description28 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

Littell - 83

Winslow Family

Box Item # Description23 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.