MAN. Manuscript Collections

This collection contains the diary of Hester Ann Wilkins Davis (1809-1888) written during the Civil War years as well as notes related to the Davis family.

This collection contains the records of the Hibernian Society, an organization founded in 1803 to provide charitable relief to Irish emigrants arriving in Baltimore. Included are minutes, correspondence, membership applications, and financial records.

This collection contains correspondence to and from members of the Hicks family, 1833-1883. The primary correspondents include Captain Ratcliffe Hicks, his sons Charles R. Hicks and Alfred Hicks, his daughter Elizabeth Hicks Harding, and her husband, William Harding. The letters contain news on family and business affairs, chiefly news of sea trade.

This collection contains manuscript materials and ephemera related to the Highland Society of Harford County. The Society was incorporated in 1967 for the“preservation of the spirit, dress, music and antiquities of the Scottish people and is dedicated to the promotion of these traditions among those of Scottish ancestry within Harford County and its environs.”

The Hill Family Collection is composed of materials related to the career activities of three family members who resided in Baltimore, Maryland: Charles Edward Hill, John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill (1879-1941), and Bancroft Hill (1887-1957). Materials include correspondence, financial statements, newspaper clippings, and reports.

The collection is made up of two principal series: the papers of Clement Hill, 1683 to 1819, and the business accounts of Clement Hill, 1701 to 1823. Also contained within the collection are land survey books dating from 1670 to 1715, mostly relating to Clement Hill, Sr. The bulk dates for both the papers and the accounts are between about 1760 to 1785. Gaps exist both before and after these dates.

This collection consists of correspondence, subject files, minutes, and account books from this Baltimore, Maryland department store. Records detail construction, employee policies, promotional activities, and store sales and profits, 1896-1981.

This collection primarily contains the business papers, land records, and Estate Record Book of Levi Hollingsworth (1765-1822), a Baltimore merchant, copper manufacturer, and public official. Other Hollingsworth family materials in the collection pertain to Levi's relatives located in Cecil County, Maryland and include land grants and surveys.

This collection includes correspondence, business papers, land deeds, and plats of the Hollingsworth, Partridge and Gilpin families of Cecil County, Maryland. There are also two deeds of Charles Carroll dated 1713 and 1737.

Correspondence of the Hollyday family of "Ratcliffe Manor" and "Readbourne" estates on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The letters deal with family, business, legal, and land affairs.