M. Morris-Z. Morris, n.d.

Recipients include:

(Mother) Mary Hollingsworth Morris, Naomi McClenachan Morris, N.M.M. and daughters, N.M.M. and daughter Catharine Wistar Morris, (Cousin) Paschall Morris, (Cousin) Samuel B. Morris, (Cousin) Sarah “Sallie” Morris, (Brother) Stephen P. Morris, (Brother) Wistar Morris, “Brother”

Some highlights include:

(Mother) Mary Hollingsworth Morris. 1819-1820. 8 items.

Naomi McClenachan Morris. 1841-1863. 6 items. Hollidaysburg, 1841 11/7. [includes... a poem he wrote about his trip]; Williamsport, 1852 12/9. [describes trip to Williamsport]

Naomi McClenachan Morris and Daughters. 1841-1862. 13 items. Baltimore, 1852 10/22. [describes trip to Baltimore with brother Israel, riding on the same train as General Winfield Scott, and visiting “our old neighbor” Harriet Watson and cousin Galloway Cheston]; Washington, 1852 10/23. [further describes Baltimore (“…next to Philada Baltimore would be my choice for a permanent residence…”) and Washington (“…extensive, dirty, disagreeable city…”) and goes on to discuss Harpers Ferry]; Staunton, VA, 1852 10/27. [discusses visiting some Virginia farms and the city of Winchester and writes about his observations of the conditions of enslaved Black people (“…they are better off with good masters and little work than to be free men with no knowledge of what to do…”)]; Staunton, VA, 1852 10/28. [relates a spelunking experience]

Naomi McClenachan Morris and (Daughter) Catharine Wistar Morris. Cadorus, 1859. 2 items. 2/17. [written to N.M.M. and C.W.M. during their visit to Owen Jones in Washington; mentions E.M.S.’s whooping cough]; 2/20. [cryptically tells N.M.M. to “tell the President… that thy husband & family would like to be sent out to Japan or some other place from which a good salary would flow into his use…”]

(Cousin) Paschall Morris. Cadorus, 1851-1856. 9 items. 1853 7/8. [encloses bill for “board & tuition” for daughter Sarah’s schooling]

(Cousin) Samuel B. Morris. Cadorus, 1858 9/14. [re Owen Jones’ positive response to Samuel’s request for government publications at the Germantown Library]

(Cousin) Sarah “Sallie” Morris. Cadorus, 1854 8/21. [mentions the burning of a barn at Green Hill Farm and postulates that it may have been an act of arson]

(Brother) Stephen Paschall Morris. 1832-1863. 13 items. 1832 10/3. [expresses surprise at Stephen’s suggestion of Sarah Grimké as a companion for their father; “SMG can never supply [our mother’s] place to him or us, it will unsettle us all entirely…”]; 1858 6/24. [asks to borrow $300]; Cadorus, 1862 7/8. [relates that brother Caspar thinks it best for L.M. and N.M.M. to take a trip to Saratoga, stopping on the way back at brother Henry’s house in Newport]

(Brother) Wistar Morris. 1862-1867. 8 items. Cadorus, 1862 1/31. [thanks Wistar for “dispens[ing] so liberally… of so much of thy income to me at this time;” “But my dear brother I have many very many dark clouds surrounding me & know that I am unworthy & among the chieftest of sinners—but pray for me my dear brother that I may be enabled through his mercy to be counted among his redeemed ones giving all praise unto my God…”]; Cadorus, 1862 7/9. [writes of N.M.M. and their daughters getting him ready for his trip to Saratoga Springs (without N.M.M.?)]; Cadorus, 1866 5/19. [discusses a property dispute between him and Thomas P. Remington, neighbor of Green Hill Farm]; Philadelphia, 1867 7/10. [thanks Wistar and Mary (his wife) for taking daughter C.W.M. to Newport and the White Mountains]