- Creator
- Ross, Lillian Wise, 1900-1980
- Call number
- Sc MG 547
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Lillian Ross letters, Sc MG 547, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Lillian Wise Ross married World War I veteran, Ira Eugene Ross, in 1919. Their daughter, Dorothy Eleanor Ross, was married to Walter Franklin Anderson, an accomplished musician and the grandson of freed slaves. The Lillian Ross Letters consist of a few personal letters between Ross and her daughter, Dorothy, and son-in-law, Walter Franklin Anderson. Written in 1946, they concern shortages of household items in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, during the post-war period. There is a letter written by Anderson to his future mother-in-law explaining that he is the director of music at Karamu House; a flyer advertising his performance in 1942; and correspondence regarding Ross's claims for financial compensation as a veteran's widow.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift of 409 Edgecombe Avenue Tenant Association, 1988.
Separated material
Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs
This collection was separated from the 409 Edgecombe collection (Sc MG 804).
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor