Box 01

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Recollections of Colin Ferguson copied from Annals of the American Pulpit Vol. 5 by William B. Sprague, D.D. Letter from Wroth was included in the Annals. Recollections of William H. Wilmer copied from a letter from William R. Wilmer, son of William H., to William Sprague. This was made by Wroth for Ann Eliza Taylor, Colin Ferguson’s daughter.

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Contains recollections of the Battle of Caulk’s Field, letters to Colin Ferguson, poetry, inventory of goods and chattels, addresses, and stories.

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This copy was made for Margaret Wroth, Eugenia’s sister.

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By Cicero. First half is in Latin followed by the English translation. Was a gift to his son Edmund M., 1863.

Scope and content note This is Peregrine Wroth's grandson's copy. Book has a carte de visite of P. Worth and 1898 article on Worth. Writings include: “Gentleman of the Old School”; “The Yule Log”; “The Fall of the Year”; “The Music of Spheres”; “The Past and the Present”; “Discovery of the Site of New Yarmouth”; “Monomae an Indian Tale”; “The Maryland Line”; “To the New York News”; “Reply to General Alexander Smith ‘Explanation of the Relocation of St. John’”; “The Aristocracy Must be Put Down”; “Some Things I...

Scope and content note Grandson, Peregrine Wroth's copy. Writtings include: “The Miseries of Life”; “Retrospection”; “Gentleman of the Old School”; “The Yule Log”; “Past and Present”; “To the Mobile Register”; “The Fall of the Year”; “The Music of the Spheres”; “Discovery of the Site of New Yarmouth”; “Monomae an Indian Tale”; “Are we Polite People”; “The Aristocracy Must be Put Down”; “The Maryland Line”; lecture on Geology; “Plagiarism”; “Some Things That I Remember”. Some Wroth’s boyhood recollections, such as...

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"Breif Memoir of the Rev Dr. W. H. Wilmer"; "Gentleman of the Old School"; "The Fall of the Year"; "The Past and the Present"; "The Music of the Spheres".

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Campbell Fair's copy. Writings include: Notes after reading “XI chapter of St. John”; “A Particular Providence”; “The Miseries of Life”; “Some Things I Remember”; “The Fall of the Year”; “The Fool Hath Said in his Heart ‘There is No God’”; “The Death of Dr. Baker”; “Brief Memoir of Rev. W. H. Wilmer D. D.”; “A Fragment”; “Another Fragment”.

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Writings include: Course lecture, 1853; lectures on elements; “Colonization of Kent County”; address to the Medical and Chirurgical society of Maryland; “Discovery of the Site of New Yarmouth”; “Monomae an Indian Tale”; “Retrospection”; “A Fragment”; “True Nobility”.

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Contains carte de visite of Eugenia M. Wroth. Writings include: Biography of Eugenia Wroth; letter to Weekly Herald with prose regarding the 1851 Cosden murders; a Sunday School address entitled “The Forest”.