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Box 8

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Contains 18 Results:

Morris, Samuel, Jr. Letters (no. 22), 1904

 File — Box: 8
Scope and Contents

[Include his address to the Phila. Yearly Mtg. et al: “Considerations suggested by the present (critical) position of (the Society of Friends

Dates: 1904

Morris, Samuel, Jr. Minutes of Ministry (no. 26), undated

 File — Box: 8
Scope and Contents

Include journeys to Canada, Europe, and Australasia; accompanied to Canada and Europe by Thomas P. Cope, and to Australasia by Jonathan E. Rhoads

Dates: undated

Morris, Samuel (son of George Spencer Morris)

 File — Box: 8
Scope and Contents

Letters to his mother and Aunt Hannah, includes letter, Clermont-en-Argonne, 5mo. 18, 1919, when he was doing reconstruction work after World War I

Morris, Samuel, B., Sr. Letters (no. 1), 1809-1814

 File — Box: 8
Scope and Contents

[1st. item: account of his life and descendants. Also here., 3 essays, 1809-10, “On Commerce,” “Liberty of the Press,” “Thoughts on the Purchase of Louisiana;” also, letters while on voyage to Cadiz, 1812-1813

Dates: 1809-1814

Morris, Samuel, B., Sr. Letters (no. 2), 1815-1833

 File — Box: 8
Scope and Contents Early letters deal with start of his business career as merchant and give interesting insight into how consignment business operated; tells of trip to New England, to obtain customers; speaks of needing a counting house for people to address consignments to. License as “Retailer of Merchandize” [sic] in Phil., dated Jan. 18, 1816. Letter of 3mo. 14, 1833, speaks of loneliness after death of wife, Hannah (Perot). Letter of 7mo. 16, 1833, to his children, describes ride on one of first...
Dates: 1815-1833