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By the 1840s, Mr. Darlington had developed a keen interest in colonial American history, especially as it related to Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley. He initially acquired books on those subjects, but later he would expand his interests to topics associated with the exploration of the Trans-Mississippi, the Far West, and even world history. He also expanded his acquisitions to include atlases and maps, broadsides, manuscripts, lithographs, and works of art, including John James Audubon's Birds of America. Since this complete double elephant folio set and the accompanying five-volume Ornithological Biography are considered by the University Library System to be so important, a dedicated Audubon Web site provides access to these rare sets.
After Mr. Darlington died in 1889, his wife Mary, who shared her husband’s enthusiasm for American history, continued to acquire materials. Their children, O’Hara, Mary, and Edith, also added to what became a family collection. O’Hara, for example, collected English first editions from the Victorian era. Of particular note are fine copies of books authored by Dickens and Thackeray. Attending to the family estate was left to Mary and Edith. In 1918 they made their initial donation to the U
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Filed under: Personal narratives- Memories du comte de More (1758-1837) Pub. pour la Societe d'historie contemporaine (A. Picard et fils, 1898), by Charles-Albert Moré, Cesar Henri Joseph Dieudonne de More, and Paris Societe d'historie contemporaine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the civil war (L.C. Page and company, 1898), by James R. Gilmore and Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War; or, From New England to the Golden gate, and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire (The Werner Company, 1896), by Nelson Appleton Miles, James Verner Scaife, and Marion Perry Maus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Personal memoirs of Major-General D. S. Stanley, U. S. A. (Harvard University Press, 1
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