Early journals, notebooks, sketchbooks. Notebooks were employed mostly for school exercises. Lea was educated at home by private tutors and never attended school. Workbooks are arranged chronologically by the earliest date found in the notebook. Many notebooks were used from back to front as well as front to back.
Undated notebooks follow the chronological series.
The first box in this series contains an autobiographical sketch that Lea wrote a few years before his death. Most information gathered for Lea's biographies came from family and friends, many of whom wrote tributes to Lea after his death. There are two boxes of items related to the construction of the home of Henry C. Lea's son Charles M. Lea in Devon, Pennsylvania. Box 197 contains memorials to the United States Congress, to the Pennsylvania State legislature, and to Philadelphia City Council on political problems, many of which are signed by prominent Philadelphians who were supporters of Lea's. All Rights Reserved.