Correspondence with immediate family, I. Morris-Z. Morris

Letter writers and recipients include:

Israel Wistar Morris, Jane Morris, Levi Morris, Wistar Morris

Some highlights include: Correspondence with Israel Wistar Morris. 1828-1848. 7 items [Stephen P. Morris’s financial situation, their deceased mother]

Letters from Jane Morris. 1841-1848. 2 items, 1841 1/24 [“Supposing it to be well understood between us that the three words standing so conspicuously on the left hand corner of my page [my dear brother] were placed there merely as a matter of form; (or possibly by omitting the 2nd word, and the 2nd letter of the third word in reading it, thou mayest arrive at the truth)...”]; 1848 8/3 [“I wish for pity’s sake you could be content without dragging me into your inextricable intricacies – me who would so gladly glide silently thro the world, without coming into such hazardous company...”]

Letters and papers from Levi Morris. Cadorus Farm, 1854-1865. 8 items [letters include discussion of health and weather; papers include accounts written or copied by Levi Morris]

Letter from Wistar Morris. Philadelphia, 1841 2/19 [discussion of situation in Philadelphia: “Matters and things in Philadelphia do not yet appear to mend much...”]