Box 1

Scope and Contents (ca. 31 items) includes: letters, 1815­-1840 and many not dated. notes on contents: Letters to and from family and friends on family and personal matters (health concerns, invitations to parties, household matters, memorial of Elizabeth Armit (Mary Wistar's grandmother, d. 1802), thoughts for Thomas Wistar Brown (b. 1826) on various birthdays from his mother, etc.) Correspondents include her mother, Mary (Waln) Wistar (1765­-1844), her father Thomas Wistar (1764-­1851), Eliza Kirkbride...

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(contains memoranda re payment of wages to various persons, etc.)

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(ca. 26 items) letters, 1834-­1835 Letters to his wife, Mary Wistar Brown, while he was in New England (Moses is visiting the family "homestead" in Dover, New Hampshire) on personal and family matters [with note by him "Letters addressed to my precious wife in 1834 during my absence in N. England. Worthy of preservation only as affording reminiscences of that trying period and evidence I think of my dear and tender love for her. M.B. 9 mo. 2, 1840"]

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(ca. 32 items) letters (includes his copies), 2 silhouettes, 1821-­1866 Letters written by him to family and friends on personal and business matters (includes letters to his son T. Wistar Brown on the occasion of birthdays, letters re plants, letter to J.G. Whittier, drafts of letter to John M. Whitall in appreciation of his paying off debts to creditors, etc.)

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(ca. 31 items) letters, 1825-­1834 Letters from Mary Wistar Brown to her husband Moses Brown (29 while he was at Dover, New Hampshire in 1830 and 1834) on family and personal matters

Scope and Contents (ca. 29 items) letters addressed to him, 1821­-1868 Correspondents, A-­B are: -Almy, William, letter, Providence, 4 mo. 4, 1827 re Hicksite controversy -Backhouse, Jonathan, letter, Terre Haute, 3 mo. 9, 1832 -Brown, Amos P. (nephew), letter, Phila., Feb. 8, 1868 -Brown, David Sands (brother), 6 letters, 1820­-1868 -Brown, David, letter, 2 mo. 25, 1821 -Brown, Jeremiah (brother), 3 letters, Phila., 1 mo. 22-­2 mo. 8, 1821 -Brown, John [or is it Jeremiah??] (with Mordecai D. Lewis), 10...

Scope and Contents (ca. 16 items) letters addressed to him, 1820­-1868 Correspondents, C­-K are: -Chase, P. Brown (nephew), letter, Burlington, 10 mo. 29, 1825 -Cope, Alfred, 3 letters, 1868 -Cope, M.C., letter, 5/3/1836 re seeds sent to Moses -Cox, John, 1 letter, 1 L, Oxmead, 1845-­1846, re his health (age 92), grapes sent him by Moses -Evans, Jonathan, letter, Phila., 10 mo. 29, 1868 re use of a Meeting house room for a school for poor children -Grellet, Stephen, 2 letter, Burlington, 1845­-1849, re grapes...

Scope and Contents (ca. 26 items) letters addressed to him, 1821­-1868 Correspondents, L­-T are: -Lewis, Mordecai D., letter, 1 mo. 9, 1821 re business -Lingerman, J., letter, Bustletown, Jan. 15, 1868 -Mackie, Dr., letter, Bordertown, April 13, 1858 re character of coachman -Martin, A., letter, Aug. 26, 1839 -Morris, Elliston P. (cousin), 3 letters, 1868 re new Meeting house -Morris, Samuel (cousin), letter, Olney, 3 mo. 21, 1868 re potatoes -Morris, John T. (nephew), letter, Phila., 4 mo. 12, 1859 -Morris,...

Scope and Contents (ca. 25 items) letters chiefly addressed to him, 1831­-1868 Correspondents, U­-Z are: -Vaux, George, letter [addressed to Thomas Wistar], 11 mo. 24, no year re invitation to dine -Vaux, [Wm. S.?], letters, June 26, 27, 1868 re cicadas -Wistar, Caspar, 5 letters, [Phila.], 1834­-1838 and n.d. -Wistar, Elizabeth Waln (sister­-in-­law), 8 letters, 1849 and n.d. [some addressed to Mary Wistar] re family matters -Wistar, Moses, letters, Beeslys Point, 7 mo. 21, 1833 re scarlet fever -Wistar, Mary...

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Manuscript book telling of final illness and death of daughter, Mary W. Brown written by her mother, with recollections of the last few months of her life (interesting re religious experiences of a child)