Box 7

12 ALS 1811-1818

addressed to her sister Rachel Smith (later Stewardson); Sarah Sharpless

topics:

- news of family and Friends

- going through her grandmother's papers and discovery of her journal

- illness of Aunt Moore

7 ALS 1814 and [no year]

addressed to her cousin, Daniel B. Smith, Phila.

topics:

- news of family

- books

3 ALS [no year]

addressed to Gulielma M. Smith; Margaret H. Hilles; Rachel Stewardson

topics:

- illness of her grandmother

- Monthly Meeting

- separations at various Meetings

- news of family and Friends

also an envelope containing invitation, ALS of MMS to Margaret H. Hilles written shortly before her death, newspaper clippings of obituary of MMS

15 ALS 1819-1828

addressed to his mother Gulielma M. Smith; sister Margaret H. Smith

topics:

- tells of his travels in U.S. and Canada

15 ALS 1819-1826

addressed to his sister Margaret H. Smith (later Hilles); his mother Gulielma M. Smith; sister Rachel Smith

topics:

- tells of his travels in southern U.S.

- death of a brother (Richard Morris Smith?)

notebook “Memoranda written by Margaret H. Hilles relating to the illness and death of her brother Morris Smith”

(labeled gift John W. Cadbury, Jr. 1943 and gift Richard M. Gummere, 1952)

notebook “Account of the last sickness and death of Morris Smith (1801-1832) written by his sister, Margaret H. Hilles”

24 ALS 1810-1825

addressed to her sister; Sarah Sharpless; Susan Emlen; sister Margaret H. Hilles; brothers John and Morris Smith; mother Gulielma M. Smith

topics:

- letters written to her brothers while they were at Westtown School

- news of family and friends

- explosion at Dupont powder mill (1818)

also ms. copy of Wm. Allinson's account as guardian for Rachel, John and Morris Smith

ALS West Hill, 1 mo. 29, 1833

addressed to her aunt Margaret H. Hilles

topics:

- daughter born to Maria Reeve

5 ALS 1825-1831

addressed to her mother-in-law Gulielma M. Smith; sister-in-law Margaret H. Hilles

topics:

- news of family

- account of a fire in Loganian library in Phila. (her husband, John Jay Smith was librarian)

12 ALS 1816-1825

addressed to his mother Gulielma M. Smith; his sister Margaret H. Hilles; cousin Samuel Emlen

topics:

- news of family and friends

also photoreproduction of “A pedigree of Richard M. Smith”; advertisement for public vendue of goods of Richard S. Smith (1796); ms. of sale conditions for woodlots, 1815