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Elizabeth Wheeler Paul family papers (MS.2012.34)

Newport Historical Society

82 Touro Street
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: 401-846-0813
Fax: 401-846-1853
email: info@newporthistorical.org

Scope & content

This collection contains family photographs and correspondence between Elizabeth Wheeler Paul and her daughters, Mrs. Mary Lownes Paul Morris and Mrs. Sallie Wheeler Paul Morris. Also included are letters to various family members written by William and Israel Morris, twin sons of Mrs. Mary Lownes Paul Morris. The twins are writing home as they spend time in Newport with their grandparents. An informal ship's log of the ship George and Annie written by Elizabeth Wheeler Paul is also included, as well as a pair of pockets monogrammed with her initals.