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‘Genealogy of Lillywhite Family compiled by F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. A small collection of letters, notes and facsimiles relating to the history of the Lillywhite family, all contained within an envelope annotated to the front by Irving Rosenwater. Included is a single page handwritten letter in ink from James Lillywhite Jun. dated 6th December 1916. Writing from Westerton, Chichester in Sussex, he refers to various family members, ‘Capt. Robt. John Lillywhite was killed in Yorkshire on the 26th Nov, he did not play cricket. Aged 23. His father’s name was John who died the 12th May 1915. My father John Lillywhite died Nov. 18th 1880 & my grandfather 10th Aug. 1846. I never heard of a Charles Lillywhite in connection with this family, and if a Charles played in 1837 it must have been a fictitious name or altogether another family... I am keeping wonderfully well for one nearly 75’. Very nicely signed ‘Faithfully yours, James Lillywhite’. Four further pages of notes in various hands, including that of Irving Rosenwater, relate to the family including references to the ‘half-brothers’ Frederick Willliam and John not being by the same father, John and Charles being step-brothers to ‘F.W.’. Also included is a neatly drawn family tree dating back four generations to Thomas Lillywhite who is described having been ‘tried for smuggling at the Chichester Court on 16th January 1749, and was acquitted’. Good/ very good condition.