Box 6

ALS 9 mo. 7, [1793?]

addressed to his mother Margaret Morris

topics:

- engaging help (a nurse?) [during yellow fever epidemic of 1793?]

also ms. of expressions of Benjamin Smith who died at S. Emlen's

(she was widow of Morris Smith)

8 ALS 1825, 1839 and [no year]

addressed to Gulielma M. Smith; Margaret H. Hilles; Ann Stewardson; cousin Margaret M. Smith; Margaret H. Smith [from H.H.P.?]

topics:

- news of family

- last illness of R. Stewardson

- illness of her husband Morris Smith

9 ALS 1816-1836

addressed to Sarah Sharpless; Rachel Smith; Samuel Hilles; Richard Mott; Margaret H. Hilles

topics:

- news of family and friends

- asks Richard Mott his opinion of John Redmond and wife as superintendent and matron of the Asylum

- re: estate of Margaret Smyth

- religious reflections on the deaths of 2 children

11 ALS 1795 and [no year]

addressed to sister [Gulielma M. Smith]; mother Margaret Morris

topics:

- family news

- illness of various people

(Elizabeth Maria Morris Smith, daughter of William H. Morris and wife of Dillwyn Smith)

ALS [no date]

addressed to her sister Gulielma

topics:

- includes words from their dying father to Gulielma

(folder 1) 32 ALS 1784-1818

(folder 2) 28 ALS, AL [no year]

addressed to family (chiefly to her mother)

also a memorandum and draft of her will

topics:

- family news

- yellow fever epidemic of 1793

3 ALS and 1 ms. copy of ALS Burlington, 1771-1773

addressed to her brother John Smith; Grace Buchanan

topics:

- sends her brother paper, etc. while he is at Anthony Benezet's school in Phila. (sent there after death of their father)

- tells Grace Buchanan how her horse fell and injured her

17 ALS 1748-1760

addressed to family (chiefly to her husband)

topics:

- news of family and Friends

- her travels to various Meetings

also 2 ms. memorials to Hannah Smith

ALS 1784-1789

addressed to Grace Buchanan; William Dillwyn

topics:

- family news

- how his children fared with the smallpox

also draft of his will

7 handwritten letters, Phila. and Burlington, 1753-1757

addressed to his uncle Dr. William Logan, England

topics:

- business matters

- family matters

- estate of father Logan

- illness and death of mother Logan 1754 (wife of James)

- French and Indian War