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Sharpless family letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-017
Overview
The personal correspondence included in the Sharpless family letterbook acted as a circulating "family letter," and was added to by each family member with the goal of assembling the letters at the end of the year and binding them together for the use of future generations. Letters generally provide news of each letter writer, as well as comments on past letters. Letter writers include Susanna F. Sharpless, Edith Sharpless, Thomas Sharpless, Elizabeth S. Smedley, Ann Sharpless, William...
Dates:
1883
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Names: Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 X
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
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- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
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- Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Forsythe 1
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- Sharpless, Thomas 1
- Sharpless, William P., 1808-1879 1
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