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Box 2

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Contains 12 Results:

Edward Sharpless to niece Mary O. Reeve and related correspondence, 1891 - 1894

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"Mame." A letter concerns writing his Will, with trustees to manage her inheritance. A letter from Friends Asylum to Mary describes his death and reimbursement to estate of family, and a letter from a family member expressed guilt about his dying alone.

Dates: 1891 - 1894

Miscellaneous copy poetry and documents, 1857-1882, undated

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Includes copies of poetry for J. N. Reeve

Dates: 1857-1882, undated

Mary O. Reeve, Westtown, to her mother and brother Walter, 1872

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Mary was a student at Westtown. In her letter of 9 month 16 she wrote that her uncle Edward Sharpless visited the School and preached. Described death of a fellow student, possibly typhoid fever.

Dates: 1872

Anna N. Reeve, Medford, to daughter Mary, 1873 - 1879

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Letters to Mary ("Mame") and her brothers at Westtown. 8 month her letter reported that bodies of her brother Daniel Sharpless and family had been found two miles at sea off Atlantic City. Daniel, his wife Esther, and two of their children were drowned in a boating accident on 7 month 10, 1874,

Dates: 1873 - 1879