Lavinia Lloyd Knight Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence with Knight's sister, Elizabeth Knorr Knight (1814-1841), lesson book and journal kept as student (1830-1832) of Eli Hilles (1783-1863), essays, poems, biographical material, and other papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1825-1857
Creator
- Knight, Lavinia Lloyd, 1816-1863 (Person)
- Hilles, Eli, 1783-1863 (Contributor, Person)
- Knight, Lavinia Lloyd, 1816-1863 (Contributor, Person)
- Knight, Elizabeth Knorr, 1814-1841 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Lavinia Lloyd Knight (1816-1863) was a Quaker, of Wilmington, Delaware.
Extent
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lavinia Lloyd Knight (1816-1863) was a Quaker, of Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains corresondence with Knight's sister, Elizabeth Knorr Knight (1814-1841), lesson book and journal kept as student (1830-1832) of Eli Hilles (1783-1863), essays, poems, biographical material, and other papers.
Arrangement
- Albums of Lavinia Lloyd Knight
- Correspondnece
- Miscellaneous papers
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Laura Pedrick Cheney, 1944
The collection was given by a descendant.
Subject
- Knight family (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- An Inventory of the Lavinia Lloyd Knight Papers, 1825-1857
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1944
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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