Courtship letters between Stephen P. Morris and Mary Ann Cope Morris

Contents include:

Poems copied for Stephen P. Morris by Mary Ann Cope Morris. 1854, 2 items.

Correspondence between Stephen P. Morris and Mary Ann Cope Morris. 1854, 4 items. 1/29 [Letter from Mary Ann Cope Morris discussing her fears about Stephen’s frequent illnesses]; 1/30 [Letter from Stephen P. Morris confessing his frequent bouts with depression and anxiety: “I am often sick with creeping nervous feelings in my flesh that will exact upon my poor mind too – I cannot change myself, and I know not what to do – thou ought to know this, and no one else can tell thee of it...”]; 1/31 [Mary Ann Cope Morris’s Response to Stephen’s confession of his depression: “I do not feel discouraged either, by the revelations of eye or pen, for the love of thy warm heart is to me a gift so precious, that all thou has said in thy own disparagement, seems of small moment when I remember that.”]

Letter from Mary Ann Cope Morris to Wistar Morris. 1863 9/21.