Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
717 Queen StreetAlexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Item identification], Anne Lewis Jones Collection, MS010, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Thomas C. Jones donated Dec. 2003
Biographical / Historical
Anne Lewis Jones (1882-1967) was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Marshall Jones of Alexandria, Virginia. A descendant of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, Miss Jones lived her entire life in Alexandria. She served as a civilian employee in the United States Medical Department during World War I. As a stenographer for the Office of the Chief Surgeon AEF, she spent a year working in France during the war. She operated the Blue Door antique store at 708 Wolfe Street for a number of years. She died in Alexandria December 14, 1967 and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Content Description
This collection includes travel records, embarkation orders, pay voucher, letters written to her mother and Aunt Cora, and her own remembrances of her time spent in France.
Arrangement
Chronological
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Correspondence
- Letters.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
Container List
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 1
Letter - 'Dearest Mama'1918, December 18
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 2
Letter - 'Aunt Cora'1918, December 28
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 3
Letter - 'Darling Aunt'1919, January 23
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 4
Letter - 'Dearest Mother'1919, February 18
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 5
Letter - 'Aunt Cora'1919, April 19
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 6
Letter (incomplete) - 'Aunt Cora'1919, April 23
- Text Assorted Box: AB01 folder: 10-2 object: 7
Letter - To Mother/Aunt1919, June 9