Emily London Short papers, 1860-1972.

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Emily London Short papers, 1860-1972.

The collection includes correspondence, pictures, and other materials, 1860-1972, relating to Emily London Short and her family. Correspondence is chiefly about family matters and daily life. Letters of interest include ones that Robert London's wrote to his family while in the military, 1870s-1890s. In the 1870s, Mauger London spent a time in New York City and wrote several letters to his daughter Eliza including comments on construction projects in New York City and inventions such as steam heating and elevators. Other materials include legal documents, clippings and articles about family members, household inventories and recipes, and other items. There are also pictures of Emily London Short, her family members, and a house and a ship connected to her family.

About 150 items (0.5 linear feet).

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Short, Emily London, 1923-

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Emily London Short was born Emily London Harriss in 1923, in Wilmington, N.C. She was married to Dugald Stewart III in 1946, in Laurinburg, N.C. She later married Bennett Short. Emily London Short studied the family histories of her mother Margaret Cronly Harriss's family (the Cronly family), her grandmother Eliza London Cronly's family (the London family), and her maternal great-grandparents' families (the Jones family). From the description of Emily London Short papers, 1860-1972. ...

London, Mauger, 1812-1894

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Cronly family.

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London family.

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Jones family.

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London, Robert

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Epithet: Rector of Chartham, county Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x00030b ...