Series 2: Letters to Eliza J. Jennings

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Letters to Eliza J. Jennings (Mrs. John C. Jennings) from family members. Eliza Jennings lives in Beverly, New Jersey and visits Chester, Pennsylvania. Correspondents include her daughter, Susan who writes from her trips to her Uncle John and Aunt Julia in Chester, Bethlehem and from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Beverly, New Jersey; her son, John who writes from New York, New York, Chester, Bethlehem or Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Beverly, New Jersey; her sister, Cordelia from Ft. Wayne, Indiana; her Mother from Oxford, New Jersey and New York, New York; her sister, Julia from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; her sister, Emma from New York, New York and her sister, A.C. Evans from Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

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Location of collection:
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
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Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Parent restrictions:
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