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, a t, f. f NANCY HER JOURNAL BOOK ROMANCE OF A YOUNG LADY OF
FASHION OF COLONIAL THILADELTHIA WITH LETTERS O HE ANV COMPILED AND
EDITED BY ETHEL ARMES ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS FAG-SIMILES AND
PRINTS Philadelphia J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY London 935 NANCY
SHIPPBN FROM TIIK ORIGINAL MINIATURK ATTRIIUI KI ix BENJAMIN TRcrrr
Courtesy t Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Shippea RIGHT, 1935, BY ETHEL
ARMES AND tLOYD P. SHIPPEN MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FIRST EDITION TO CATHY AND DICK PREFACE My discovery of the letters
and journals which make up the major contents of this book was an
accident In doing research for the Robert E. Lee Memorial
Foundation, Inc., my ob ject was to secure records and information
that might be of service in the restoration and furnishing of
Stratford Hall, the national shrine in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, commemo rating the patriot Lees. Through Miss Elise
Packard, Chair man of Lee Records Committee of the Foundation, I
learned that Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Shippen of Washington, D. C, had
in the storeroom of their home several chests containing original
letters, diaries and other documents which had never been examined
in their entirety by any person now living. This in itself was a
challenge to the student of Americana. For the records of the
Shippens, like those of the Livingstons and the Lees, extend far
back into the seventeenth century. These three families were
foremost among those taking early root in the Province of
Pennsylvania, the Province of New York and the Colony of Virginia,
and their records are interwoven with every stage of the beginnings
and early progress of the United States of America. Accordingly I
welcomed the opportunity to see and tostudy the Shippen collection.
The major portion of the documents relating to the eighteenth
century had been classified by Dr. and Mrs. Shippen, placed in
letter books in chronological order and deposited in the Division
of Manuscripts of the Library of Congress. The investigation of the
collection in both places was begun in October, 1933, with the
certainty of finding valu-5 PREFACE able material for Stratford.
When the selection, classification and identification of the
documents in the Shippens storeroom was made, letters and documents
of the early nineteenth cen tury found there clarified many
previously half-told events in the lives of the families concerned.
The collection as a whole proved to be far broader in scope than
was at first surmised. Finding intact such a series of let ters
practically covering the lives of each member of an entire family
births, education, marriages, separations, deaths, was in itself an
amazing circumstance. When considered against the late eighteenth
century background of their lives, the historic events of which
they were part, before, during and after the American Revolution,
this collection contains a priceless record of the inner life,
thought and psychology of the times. Noth ing else like it has come
to light. In this volume, wherever possible, the full text of the
orig inal letters has been reproduced in chronological order and in
its original form with the exception of slight changes in punc
tuation or capitalization. The letters, notes and fragments written
by the Comte de Mosloy appear precisely as in the originals. Only
limitations of space prevent inclusion of the whole sheaf of them.
Because almost all of his letters are with out datesI have placed
them where they seemed logically to belong. At length the
collection was ready for typed transcription. Both volumes of the
Journal Book and the love letters of the French Diplomat and the
other letters were transcribed di rectly from the original
documents by Maud Kay Sites, as sistant research worker attached to
the Library of Congress. To her I wish to express appreciation for
this important serv ice...
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