Box 4

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2 ALS 4th day evening and undated [1760's? style and content suggest a young girl] addressed to Sally Smith

topics:

- news of family

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AL Phila., 12 mo. 7, 1753

addressed to “Dear Brother”

(Sarah Logan to her husband's brother, Dr. William Logan of Bristol, England)

topics:

- thanks him for sympathy after death of her husband, James Logan

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4 ALS Bristol, 1752-1756

addressed to Sarah Logan; nephew John Smith

topics:

- sympathy letter to Sarah Logan on death of James Logan, her husband and his brother

- mention of French and Indian War

- uncertainty in England over actions of French navy

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37 ALS 1758-1779

addressed to “Billy” and to her sister

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29 ALS, AL 1780-1789

addressed to her sister, cousin, son-in-law (John Smith), daughter Gulielma M. Smith

(also ALS from [I.?] Morris, Jr. to his mother, dated Sept. 17, 1782 and ALS from John Morris, Jr. to his mother, dated Aug. 10, 1784)

Scope and Contents note 32 ALS, AL 1792-1799addressed to John Smith, Gulielma M. Smith, “my dear child”topics:- yellow fever epidemic of 1793, ms. note with letters reads “Letters from my dear children & others rec'd in the time of great affliction when our city was visited with a pestilential fever in the autumn of 1793 at which time it plesd the Almighty to remove my beloved son & daughter John & Abigail Morris & my truly endeard son Benja....

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12 ALS 1800-1811

addressed to Margaret Smith, Rachel Smith (her granddaughters, who were at Westtown School), Gulielma M. Smith

also a printed card titled “A family letter. Margaret Morris to her grand-daughter, Margaret Morris, 1810.” containing an excerpt from “the Hill family” [Germantown, 1886]

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ALS 11 mo. 25, 1834

addressed to Samuel and Margaret Hilles

topics:

- expresses hope that Samuel and Margaret will be led by Divine guidance to make the right decision (relocating?)

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ALS Hampstead, 6 mo. 22, 1818

addressed to Susanna Emlen

topics:

- regrets not seeing her again before Susanna returns to America

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ALS Kent, 5 mo. 9, 1788

addressed to Hannah Moore, Philadelphia

topics:

- religious sympathy letter

also 2 TLS re: information on Warner Mifflin