Stephen Pascall Morris, 1832 - 1862

Some highlights include:

Philadelphia, 1832 7/19. [introduces idea of their father Israel Wistar Morris marrying Sarah Grimké and solicits L.M.'s opinion about this]

Philadelphia, 1832 10/21. [responds to L.M.'s presumably cautious reply regarding Sarah Grimké and attempts to convince him that she would be a positive addition to the family]

1855 5/22. [re "a Colored Boy... at Sarah Lucianni's school... of 14 years..." that could live (and work?) at Cadorus]

Philadelphia, 1858 3/27. [mentions visiting "Mama Caroline" and four of his nieces at Solitude where they were "engaged in knitting sewing and eating apples out of a large bright tin pan;" thinks he hears singing when he approaches]

Philadelphia, 1861 6/14. [re a box of tea that he had marked for L.M.]

Philadelphia, 1862 7/6. ["...thou might find a study of the Agriculture of that cultivated portion of New York State an additional inducement to look in that direction..."]

Philadelphia, 1862 7/10. [discusses "Solidified milk" and suggests that while he is in Saratoga L.M. "might amuse [him]self by talking with New Yorkers about their large farming arrangements, to find out what their views were, and how their farms were conducted..."]

1862 11/24. [encloses "a list of property" and asks for L.M.'s "valuation" of them "so that we may proceed to meet our dear father's request..."]

6/22. [“the weather must be trying for haymakers unless the ‘improved agriculture’ enables farmers to cure hay in the rain…”]