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[Identification of item], in the Emily London Short Papers #5181, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lawrence F. London of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 2004 (Acc. 99912).

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Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2004

Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2004

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Cronly family.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Genealogists--North Carolina.
• Genealogy.
• Jones family.
• Laurinburg (N.C.)--History.
• Laurinburg (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• London family.
• London, Mauger, 1812-1894.
• London, Robert.
• New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.
• Short, Emily London, 1923-
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs

• Henry Armand London Papers (#868-z), Southern Historical Collection;
• Lawrence Foushee London Papers(#4958), Southern Historical Collection;
• Cronly Family Papers (MS009), Randall Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Emily London Short was born Emily London Harriss in 1923 in Wilmington, N.C. Short attended Woman's College at Greensboro and also studied in New Jersey. She was married to Dugald Stewart III in 1946 in Laurinburg, N.C. Stewart attended Davidson College and West Point Military Academy and served in the Army Air Corps. She is referred to as Emily London Stewart only once in the collection. Letters from the 1970s refer to her as Emily London Short or Mrs. Bennett Short. Her parents, Marion Sanders Harriss (b. 24 January 1889) and Margaret Cronly Harriss (b. 17 September 1893), were married on 28 November 1916. Short studied the family histories of her mother's family (the Cronly family), her grandmother Eliza London Cronly's family (the London family), and her maternal great-grandparents' families (the Jones family.)

The Emily London Short papers consist of letters, pictures, and other materials, 1860-1972. Letters were sent to and from several people and mostly concern family matters and daily life in Wilmington, N.C., and Laurinburg, N.C. Letter writers include Mauger London, Pembroke Jones, Robert London, Fanny Barry, Joseph Murphy Cronly, Marion Sanders Harriss, and Mary Parke Keyes. Recipients include Mauger London, Emily B. London, Eliza London Cronly, Marion Sanders Harriss, Margaret Cronly Harriss, and Emily London Short. 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. Letters from the early 1900s include a Thanksgiving menu from 1916, letters describing weddings, and a letter from Robert Harriss to his sister Margaret during the Depression about the lack of work in 1933. Many of the letters after the 1940s concern the genealogy of the London family and the Jones family.

Other materials include legal documents, clippings about family members, household inventories and recipes, and other items. Each category contains only a few items. Clippings, articles, and writings relate to Henry Armand London (1846-1918), Captain John Pembroke Jones (1825-1910), and Edith Ward London (1881-1933). There are obituaries for Captain John Jackson London, Fanny Barry, and Margaret Harriss. Also included is a wedding announcement from 1946 for Emily London Harriss's wedding to Dugald Stewart III.

The collection also contains pictures of Emily London Harriss Stewart Short, family members, and a house and ship connected to the family. Family members pictured include Captain Pembroke Jones; William Nehemiah Harriss; Robert London; Marion Sanders Harriss; and siblings Robert Cronly, Jean Cronly Boatwright, and Margaret Cronly Harriss.

Items separated include image folder (PF-05181/1-5) and oversize papers (OP-5181).