Mp-T, n.d.

Recipients include:

D.H. Mulvany, Hamilton Murray, Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Neal, Matthews and Moore, S.H. Opdyke, James Palmer, Charles Peabody, Mary S. Peabody, (Cousin) Caroline Pennock, Joseph Perot, Philadelphia & Columbian Railroad, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Co., Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, Frederick Prime, Public Ledger, William Pyle, William P. Rhoads, J.W. Roberts, Owen Sheridan, (Daughter) Emma Morris Shinn, George Sibbald, Jennette Sibbald, Maria M. Sibbald, John Sloat Jr., S.F. Smiley, J.R. Smith, Eliza Snowden, R.W. Sykes, Robert Taylor, (Cousin) Herbert Thomas, E.H. Townsend, U.S. Treasury Department, Isaac Tyson

Some highlights include:

Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Montgomery County. Cadorus, 1857 12/20. [requests that the company raises his fire insurance policy from eight to ten thousand dollars “on several buildings on the Harriton Estate”]

S.H. Opdyke. Cadorus, 1860 7/30. [responds to Opdyke’s letter about L.M.’s donation to a Black man, John Parker, trying to purchase and free his wife and child from slavery by writing that it was not him but an “S. Morris” who made a donation]

Charles Peabody. Cadorus, 1851 11/13. [describes his appearance: “I am about medium size my usual dress is an invisible green coat cut & made in the plain or Quaker stile…”]

Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Co. 1847 3/16. [resignation from the Board of Directors due to his “residence in the country”]

Frederick Prime. Cadorus, 1846 11/28. [re Prime’s advertisement of a governess/teacher]

Public Ledger. 1853. 2 items. 2/21; 10/3. [complains about misplacements at the post office and discontinuation of delivery]

Maria M. Sibbald. 1862 9/16. [informs Sibbald that he cannot pay her or her children any part of the trust fund from the estate of Harriet Watson and states his intention to release himself from his role as trustee]

Eliza Snowden. 1861-1864. 6 items. [re Maria M. Sibbald trust]

Robert Taylor. 1856. 6 items. [re finding a farmhand]