| Collection Name: |
Official Correspondence and Military Letters of Virginia Colony Lt. Governor Robert Dinwiddie |
| Repository Name: |
University of Delaware. Library. Special Collections Department [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Newark, Delaware, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/dinwidie.htm |
| Description: |
The "Official Correspondence and Military Letters of Virginia Colony Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie, 1754-1756," were collected here in two bound volumes of holograph copies. According to a note in the front of one of the volumes, the correspondence was originally transcribed in 1820 for Jared Sparks, who was one of the earliest archivists/collectors in the United States. Sparks was an advocate for the collection, preservation, and publication of manuscripts which documented early American history. |
| Broad Subjects: |
Military; Politics; Wars and Conflicts |
| ASP Subjects: |
French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763; Letters; New England; Seven Years War, 1756-1763; United States; United States--History; United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0004763 |
