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Collection Reference Number GLC06846.13
From Archive Folder Sarah Lydia Gilpin's diaries 
Title Diary of Sarah Gilpin
Date 13 May 1879-25 December 1879
Author Gilpin, Sarah Lydia (1802-1894)  
Document Type Diary
Content Description Pages numbered 4020 - 5087 Note: Break in numbering. 4099 followed by 5000
Subjects Woman Author  Women's History  
People Gilpin, Sarah Lydia (1802-1894)  
Place written s.l.
Theme Women in American History
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Gilpin was the daughter of Joshua Gilpin, a Wilmington, Delaware paper manufacturer and a contemporary of E. I du Pont. She was also related to William Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado who accompanied J.C. Fremont on his 1843 expedition. There are Gilpin family papers at the Hagley Museum and Library, the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945