Letters from

Recipients of Naomi McClenachan Morris' letters include:

(Sister-in-Law) Mary R. Jones, (Brother) Owen Jones, Mary N. Logan, (Sister-in-Law) Hannah Morris, (Father-in-Law) Israel Wistar Morris, (Sister-in-Law) Mary Ann Cope Morris, (Brother-in-Law) Wistar Morris, Mary S. Peabody, Algernon Roberts, Samuel and Anna Shipley, (Son-in-Law) George Vaux VIII, (Granddaughter) Mary M. Vaux Wolcott, Joseph Warner

Some highlights include:

(Sister-in-Law) Mary R. Jones. Cadorus, 1871 8/6. [asks her to either send a carriage for mother Mary Jones or come to Cadorus to visit with her as she is very worried about granddaughter Aubrey Jones]

(Brother) Owen Jones. 1834-1876. 5 items. Wynne Wood, 1834 7/3. [refutes a report of a cholera epidemic in Philadelphia that he heard]; Cadorus, 1854 1/18. [bill for board of son “Glennie”]; Cadorus, 1876 10/17. [re a dispute over mother Mary Jones’ will; discusses the difficulty of having housed their mother when she should have been in an “insane Asylum”]

(Sister-in-Law) Hannah Morris. 1878 3/9. [responds to Hannah’s letter of 1878 3/3, defending her son-in-law George Vaux and her reasons for entrusting him as guardian of her financial matters]

(Sister-in-Law) Mary Ann Cope Morris. Saratoga Springs, NY, 1862 7/24. [describes her trip with L.M. to Saratoga Springs]; Cadorus, 1870 2/8. [thanks her for the monetary wedding gift to E.M.S.]

Mary S. Peabody. Cadorus, 1861 9/12. [writes that she hopes Peabody will return as their governess, “hoping that the times may be better and that we may be able to pay the same salary as formerly.”]

(Son-in-Law) George Vaux VIII. 1859-1883. 9 items. Harriton Home, 1881 5/10. [firmly tells Vaux to stay out of her affairs at Harriton]; 1883 10/9. [asks Vaux to help her to convert the mill at Harriton from water to steam power]