Copies of letters written by Thomas B. Wilson to family members, manufacture and transportation of iron, collecting activities, cholera outbreak in Philadelphia, stocks and dividends, Rathmell's purchase of a farm, land prices, etc.

Primarily from Elm Farm, the family estate near Liverpool, England

Primarily from Paris, France

Many concern collecting natural specimens, some about the distribution of their father's estate

Mainly from other family members, including Rathmell Wilson, Charles Wilson, Rebecca (Bellerby) Wilson (Mother), and Elizabeth Crosfield (sister), also includes one letter from Mary Biddle

Tin stencil of Thomas B. Wilson's initials and motto, book plates, blank cheques, notices of his death, 1865, notice of public auction for sale of T. Wilson home at 1712 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Mainly books purchased for his personal library and for institutional gifts

Mainly natural history specimens including birds, eggs, and minerals, also includes offerings of duplicates from collections at the British Museum.

Acknowledgements, invitations, memberships, requests, and correspondence. Organizations include the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Society of Philadelphia, American Academy of Music, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,United States Coastal Survey, Museum of Comparative Zoology in Boston, Smithsonian Institute, American Philosophical Society, Megnanerie Expérimentale de Saite-Tulle, Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimation, Fairmont Park, Mountville Institute, and The Franklin Institute.

Letters about accounts, the stock market and various investments (Pennsylvania RR and NY Gas Light), family news

See also Series I, Folder 3

From his sister Elizabeth (Wilson) Crosfield, sister-in-law Fanny Wilson, wife Martha (Meeteer) Wilson, and father Edward Wilson

Includes letters from the London and Birmingham Railway, bonds, mortgages, deeds, and receipts. Also includes a Chancery Court complaint in Delaware "Rathmell Wilson vs. The Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Company" about property lines and train tracks in Newark, Delaware.

Manuscript check stubs and a running account balance. Contains references to accounts of William Savory Wilson and Rathmell Wilson, rents collected, and deposits from Reading Rail Road Coupons, Tennessee Coupons, Illinois Central Rail Road, and others.

Correspondence, receipts, and legal documents regarding the administration and distribution of Jane Platt's estate, handled by Rathmell Wilson and his son Edward R. Wilson.

Time book and accounts for Oaklands, likely begun by Rathmell Wilson and continued by other members of the Wilson family of Newark, DE. Also used to record rental income for properties on New London Road.

Includes a photograph, property map, architectural drawing, two short accounts about the house and Thomas Bellerby Wilson by W. D. Lewis, Librarian, and a reflection about the house and grounds from a former student of the University of Delaware.

Empty envelopes found together were addressed to residents of Oaklands, including Rathmell Wilson, Helen Elizabeth Wilson (Lizzie), Annie M. Wilson, and the Misses Wilson. Most envelopes are addressed to Miss Alice Wilson, which perhaps suggests that the collection arrangement was hers. Stamps, removed from other family letters, were found collected in an envelope, and various newspaper articles about stamp collecting were also found together. Includes labels and ribbons from original bundles.

As with the previous folder, this folder groups together materials from several generations of the residents of Oaklands. Included are materials addressed to Thomas B. Wilson, Rathmell Wilson, Martha Wilson, Helen Elizabeth Wilson, Anna Mary (Allen) Wilson, and the Misses Wilson. The folder includes several invitations for "Pic nic" parties, cotillions, and dinners. Also included are an 1847 pass to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, a 1951 pass to the Delaware Horticultural Society exhibit, and several invitations and tickets for concerts in the 1850s. Concert ephemera include a ticket to see M'lle Jenny Lind's Grand Concert, sponsored by P. T. Barnum, and an 1853 broadside for "Ole Bull's Last Grand Concert for the benefit of the suffering colonists in Oleona." A wedding invitation and newspaper clipping about the marriage of Elizabeth Shippen Green and Huger Elliot also appear. Shippen Green was a former classmate of Anna Mary (Allen) Wilson and became a well-known illustrator.

Valentines and envelopes were collected together. Most of the valentines are addressed to Helen Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wilson, though there are also a few to her brother Edward R. Wilson, and her sister Annie M. Wilson.

Wills, mortgages, deeds, bonds, receipts, and other legal papers of the maternal relations of the Misses Wilson: the Allen family and Oliver families, relations of Anna Mary (Allen) Wilson, wife of Edward R. Wilson.

Oliver family members referenced include Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver Redden, Joseph G. Oliver, Amanda (Allen) Oliver, and Thomas Oliver. "Family Record" pages, probably from a bible, are also included.

Allen family members referenced include Scattergood Allen, Charles Allen, Amanda (Allen) Oliver, John Allen, Ann Allen, and Rebecca Allen. Handwritten drafts and official copies of wills, stock shares in the Christiana Canal Company, and an 1871 letter from the Wilmington Fountain Society to Ann and Rebecca Allen regarding the use of a spring of their property are also included. Papers associated with Scattergood Allen include a mortgage, bond and deed, and references to Samuel R. Nields, Samuel Kelley, Peter Springer, and William Cornog. Also included is an insurance policy for a "Brick Store House."

Clip about the death of William Rathmell, two handwritten notes about family history, two issues of the Delaware Historical and Genealogical Recall, 1933, Article on T. B. Wilson from Entomological News, 1984. Includes a tract "Brief Memoir of William Wilson, Esq." dated 1849, relationship to family unknown.

Grant of land, William Penn to John Ogle, White Clay Creek, 1684, parchment with seal and Penn's signature Parchment indenture with wax seal, 1707 Patent for John Scott of Cecil County, Maryland, parchment with 3" seal, 1790 Letter of Adminstration for Alexander Smith, paper, 1792, signed by Gunning Bedford and letter of administration for Ann Smith, 1804. Deed, "Hannah Evans & Other to Abraham Heberton," 1842 "Release of a Lot of Land in Pencader Hundred from Judgment vs. Chas Walton," in a case of Sarah J. Harris, Zachary T. Harris, and Samuel M. Donnell to Charles Walton, 1883, and a deed, "Charles Walton and Wife to Alice S. Donnell," 1883.