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Brock, Pauline Biddle, 1880-1968. Papers, 1778-1954.

Title: Papers, 1778-1954.

Of particular interest in this section are the diaries: Julia Williams Rush, 1852; Horace Brock, 1877-1878; Anne McKennan Biddle, 1885, concerning a European trip; Alexander Biddle, 1889, 1897 of European trips; Pauline Biddle, 1892-1894, 1924 covering the years before and after her marriage to John Penn Brock in 1905, including two European tours; and Christine Biddle, 1917-1918, describing her activities with the American Red Cross at Toul, France. Present, too, are some Jonathan Williams family papers, 1779-1828; Alexander Biddle's letters to his wife written while he toured Europe, 1878 and other family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 375 items.

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Biddle, Alexander,. Papers, 1768-1899.

Title: Papers, 1768-1899.

Thomas Biddle's incoming correspondence, 1807-1844, is concerned primarily with his brokerage business. There are also letters of Christine Williams to Biddle before their marriage. Christine Williams Biddle's incoming correspondence, 1807-1848, includes letters from her "daughter" Apolline Alexander Hankey, her Scottish aunts, and her son Henry J. Biddle. Henry J. William's incoming correspondence, 1812-1871, includes miscellaneous financial and personal letters, and letters from the Alexander sisters. There is also a small group of Benjamin Rush's personal and political correspondence, 1768-1809, and a Rush family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.

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Biddle-Williams family. Papers, 1773-1862.

Title: Papers, 1773-1862.

The letters and miscellaneous papers of Alexander, Biddle, Rush, and Williams families in this section relate mostly to family and personal affairs with some business papers included. Of particular significance are the letters from the Scottish branch of the Alexanders reporting from Scotland, England, and France on politics, society, and family affairs. The Jonathan Williams, Jr., correspondence, 1773-1815 includes family letters. Mariamne Alexander Williams' correspondence, 1778-1816, includes letters from her sisters Bethia, Christine, and Jane Alexander and Isabelle Alexander Hankey, as well as from Henry Jonathan Williams, Margaret M. Craig, and Jonathan Williams, Jr. The Thomas Biddle papers, 1800-1846, consist primarily of business letters and related documents involving his brokerage firm. There are also some family letters from various Alexanders abroad and in Kentucky, his son Henry Jonathan Biddle, his brother John G. Biddle, and his wife Christine Williams Biddle. Christine Biddle's correspondence, 1794-1856 includes letters from the four Alexander aunts, Margaret Green, her "daughter," Apolline Agatha Alexander Hankey, and her "grandaughter," Apolline Alexander Blair of the Kentucky branch of the Alexanders, her five sons, particularly Henry Jonathan Biddle, as well as Thomas Biddle and Thomas Hankey, Jr. The Henry Jonathan Williams corrspondence, 1812-1862, includes letters from his four Alexander aunts, Thomas Hankey, Jr., concerning remittances, his parents, and from various others on legal, personal, and military matters. The Julia Rush Williams correspondence, 1823-1866, includes letters to her mother, Julia Stockton Rush, and letters from various relatives. Other family members are represented by small groups of miscellaneous papers: Clement Biddle, 1776, 1813, mostly as Deputy Quarter Master for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militias; Benjamin Rush, 1768-1810, with letters from Alexander Leslie (Lord Balgonie) and others; and Julia Stockton Rush, 1813-1840, on social and family matters.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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Biddle, Thomas, 1776-1857. Family papers, 1769-1954.

Title: Family papers, 1769-1954.

The manuscripts consist of correspondence and other papers of Thomas and Christine Biddle and their descendants, as well as aunts Berthia, Christine and Jane Alexander and Isabelle Alexander Hankey, all of whom report on politics and family affairs in Scotland, England, and France. Another major correspondent is Apolline Agatha Alexander, a member of the Kentucky branch of the family who was orphaned and subsequently raised by Mrs. Biddle, with letters from London following her marriage to Thomson Hankey, Jr.

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