Box 4

6 ALsS to his sister, before her marriage in July to Joseph Bringhurst. Visit of Quaker minister Jarvis Johnson. Happy for Deborah's marriage, but worries that it will change his relationship with her

5 ALsS to his sister. Yellow fever in Philadelphia, ships quarantined. Went with the "oldest man in Darby" to search out the herb Maiden's Hair which he collected for Joseph.

8 ALsS to his brother-in-law who was a good friend of John Dickinson. Dickinson had commissioned Ferris to purchase a silver snuff box for him. Benjamin was distressed about the death of a horse lent to him by "J.D." He shipped a trunk of the maidenhair [fern]

ALS to brother, presumably John Ferris who was a cabinetmaker. Specific instructions for a mahogany clock.

8 ALsS to his sister. Writes of a recent widow in great need and his own artwork, particularly miniatures. Debby has her first child, William, born in September 1800.