Nathaniel Richardson correspondence , 1813-1814, undated

Most letters are from his father and also siblings. Nathaniel was farming at Joseph Smedley's property, Willistown, Chester County. Joseph Richardson purchased the Lukens farm about a mile from the Horsham meeting house and gave Nathaniel advice about setting up a household and farm. He was impressed with reports about the Asylum in York, England, and wrote that a property has been purchased near Frankford to establish a similar institution - the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason; the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane and then Friends Hospital. Undated note from Joseph with a reply from Nathaniel goes into detail about financial concerns on the farm.