The accounts subseries primarily contains records of Elizabeth Brown Chew's personal account with Girard Trust, documented though account statements and checkbook stubs. The Chew Trust consists solely of copies of reports and statements from and pertaining to the Chew Trust between roughly 1922 and 1942. During this time, family members acting as agents for the trust included Oswald Chew, Benjamin Chew, Elizabeth Brown Chew, Anne Sophia Penn Chew Alston, and David Sands Brown Chew. The reports reveal, in relative detail, discussion between various family members concerning, in particular, land transactions. The statements spell out, in financial terms, the trust's incomes, expenses, and investments (in real estate and other companies). The Clividen subseries consists of seven folders and two volumes. Among the scant materials are a few bills and receipts for repairs to Cliveden's interiors; a small group of miscellaneous correspondence; two folders of clippings relaying stories about the house, its history, and the Chew family generally; a few inventories of the house's furnishings, as well as some of Elizabeth's own possessions; and a folder of invoices and correspondence from the early 1950s when the house underwent renovations. There are also two guestbooks (Boxes 606 and 607) in which Elizabeth kept track of all of Cliveden's visitors from 1922 to 1960. Elizabeth Brown Chew's correspondence contains letters received by Elizabeth Brown Chew from the late 1870s to the mid 1950s. There are several groups of letters from various family members, notably her mother, Mary Johnson Brown Chew, and sister, Anne Sophia Penn Chew Alston. In such letters, researchers will find few insights outside of general observations about family and friends. Although contained with one letter from Jeannie L. Chew of Falls Church, Virginia, is a brief family tree showing her descendants, who branched off from the recognized line at Benjamin Chew's (1671-1700) older brother Samuel (1660-1781). Researchers will also find several letters from various individuals that date from Elizabeth's time in London around 1913. Groups of letters from family and friends have been accordingly filed under those individuals. Single letters have been arranged together and filed as "miscellaneous [letters] to EBC in London". Diaries, calendars, scrapbooks contain several small diaries Elizabeth kept between 1882 and 1928 along with a postcard album and two scrapbooks, one of which contains early twentieth century inventories of items at both Cliveden and 1716 Walnut Street. Among the miscellaneous. material in this subseries are several of Elizabeth's address books, ephemera, miscellaneous legal papers, a record book of cricket matches, bible study notes, and a book of inventories of the Chew's residence at 1716 Walnut Street. There is also a folder of copies of agreements and correspondence between members of the Chew family and Burton Alva Konkle, who produced a biography of Benjamin Chew (1722-1810) in 1932. Other highlights in the subseries include three folders of clippings from the 1860s to the 1950s, in which are reported a range of local and national events, as well as various occurrences (marriages, deaths, etc.) in the Chews' lives.
