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Gulielma M. Howland Collection
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Dr. Richard Hill (1698-1762) m. Deborah Moore, their daughter Margaret Hill (1737-1816) m. William Morris (1735-1766). Wm. and Margaret Morris's daughter Gulielma Maria Morris (1766-1826) m. John Smith (1761-1803). Their daughter Margaret Hill Smith (1786-1882) m. Samuel Hilles (1788-1873), the first principal of Haverford College. Margaret and Samuel's daughter Gulielma Maria Hilles (1822-1907), collector, m. Charles W. Howland (d. 1896).
(Source for biographical information: Memorials of the Hilles family... / [by Samuel E. Hilles], Cincinnati: S.E. Hilles, 1928 [CS71.H65]; The Morris family of Philadelphia, descendants of Anthony Morris... / by Robert C. Moon, Philadelphia: R.C. Moon, 1898 [CS71.M87 1898]; Letters of Doctor Richard Hill and his children... / collected and arranged by John Jay Smith, Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1854 [BX7721.H61 1854].
Primarily letters (includes ALS, AL, TLS, ms. copies) but also includes documents, misc. mss., photo-reproductions and portraits.
Chiefly correspondence between members of related Quaker families of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (Allinson, Cox, Dillwyn, Emlen, Hill, Hilles, Howland, Logan, Moore, Morris, Smith and others). Also includes journals, poetry, portraits, legal and business papers. Letters chiefly discuss family, friends, health, spiritual matters and travel. Much of the correspondence is between Quaker women: letters (1821-1859) of Margaret H. Hilles to her mother and sister discuss family, child rearing and health concerns (also "Account of a Philadelphia infant school in 1827"); letters (1758-1811) of Margaret Hill Morris to her sister and daughter are concerned with family and health (includes 1793 yellow fever epidemic); letters (1784-1818) of Gulielma M. Smith, chiefly to her mother, Margaret Hill Morris; letters (1777-1778) of Hannah Moore to her sister; letters (1790-1802) of Hannah Griffitts to Margaret Morris discuss friendship, religious thoughts, family, friends and health concerns. Includes letters (1784-1835) of John and Ann Cox of Oxmead; letters (1763-1770) of William Dillwyn, chiefly written from Houghton, to his father-in-law John Smith; letters (1700-1802) of Richard Hill and family telling of family matters and their business house on the island of Madeira; letters, travel journals, poems, translations and philosophical writings of James Logan (1674-1751); journal of Susanna Morris (1682-1755) giving her account of her travels as a Quaker minister; journal and letters (1753-1770) of John Smith (1722-1771) to family members on business, religion, health, Indians and travel with Samuel Fothergill (1754); letters of Morris Smith (1801-1832) to his mother telling of his travels in Canada and the American South; letters (1755-1793) of Richard Wells discuss family, yellow fever, Revolutionary War; correspondents include Grace Buchanan, Samuel Emlen, Samuel Hilles, Rachel Stewardson and others.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Note that letters written by women before marriage are filed under their maiden names. Please note the following abbreviations: ALS=autograph letter signed; ADS=autograph document signed
Rachel S. and Susan Howland gift 1912; William L. Baily gift, 1943; William Bacon Evans gift, 1949; Friends Historical Association gift, 1950; Eleanor Taber gift, 1951.
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Collection Inventory
12 ALS 1818-1867
addressed to family and friends
topics:
- news of family and friends
6 ALS 1818-1827 and undated
addressed to Susanna Emlen; Margaret H. Hilles; Samuel Hilles
topics:
- family matters
- return of Daniel Wheeler from Russia
2 ALS undated [18-?]
addressed to Margaret Morris
topics:
- her health and family news
2 ALS 1781-1784 and ms. of "A Prayer, 1771"
addressed to Margaret Morris
topics:
- news of family and friends
19 ALS 1807-1836
addressed to Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- news of family and friends
ALS "Third day morning"
addressed to Margaret Morris
topics:
- forwarding book for "Friend Moore"
ALS Burlington, 4 mo. 12, 1781
addressed to "Dear Friend"
topics:
- friendship
2 ALS Nantucket, 1785 and 1797
addressed to Grace Buchanan at Burlington
topics:
- news of friends
ALS Manhattanville, 3 mo. 1, 1817
addressed to cousins S[amuel] and S[usanna] Emlen
topics:
- news of friends
- slavery
ALS York, 4 mo. 3, 1750
addressed to Jane Hoskins
topics:
- personal and religious letter
ALS Tottenham, 1 mo. 19, 1754
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- religious letter
- family and friends
3 ALS Liverpool, Lodges Lane, 1818-1822
addressed to Samuel Emlen, London
topics:
- gives him information on ships sailing for America
- Elias Hicks
2 ALS, 1 ms. copy London, 1816-1817
addressed to Samuel Emlen; Francis Rowe
topics:
- medical treatment for Susanna Emlen
2 ALS Tottenham, 1752 and 1753
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- news of family and friends
ALS Portsmouth, 6 mo. 12, 1788
addressed to Grace Buchanan, Burlington
topics:
- news of family and friends
- religious letter
- friendship
ALS Shrewsbury, Dec. 27, 1795
addressed to H. Moore
topics:
- religious letter
10 ALS Wilmington, 1811-1826
addressed to Sarah Sharpless (2 letters); Margaret Smith (8 letters)
topics:
- friendship
- news of family and friends
- medical advice
3 ALS Wilmington, 1811-1817
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- medical advice
- health of Samuel Emlen's wife, Susanna
ALS Oct. 9, 1744
addressed to Hannah Moore
topics:
- discussion of reason and religion
Ms. [labeled "Hannah Smith's"] "Memorandum of Thomas Browne's expressions"
7 ALS 1755-1802
addressed to family members, Grace Buchanan
topics:
- news of family and friends
6 ALS 1771-1790
addressed to John Smith; Susanna Dillwyn; Samuel Emlen, Jr.
topics:
- friendship and news of friends and family
ALS? Pottome Farm, 4.7.1818
addressed to "Dear Friend"
topics:
- inquiries re: genealogy of Long family
ALS 6 mo. 17, 18[?]3
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- death of Phebe C. Haines
- Yearly Meeting
3 ALS Burlington and Phila., 1760 and 1781
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- friendship
- letter religious in nature
Ms. "A Testimony from the Monthly Meeting of Burlington held at Burlington [] concerning our friend Rachel Cathrall Deceased"
Ms. poem "To the memory of Capt. Thomas Chalkley of Pennsylvania lately deceased, an eminent preacher among the people call'd Quakers"
2 ALS E. Nottingham [Chester Co., Pa.] 1799 and Phila., 1803
addressed to John Smith, Burlington
topics:
- return from travel
- religious comments on Quarterly Meeting (Burlington?)
- letters religious in nature
ALS Peekskill, 8 mo. 18, 1840
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- death of [Daniel?] Wheeler
ALS July 19, 1785
addressed to Mrs. Moore
topics:
- letter religious in nature
Ms. "The substance of a sermon publicly delivered at York 9th mo. 2d, 1721 by Luke Cock"
3 ALS New York, 1811-1815
addressed to Gulielma M. Smith; Rachel Smith (cousin)
topics:
- trip to New York
- illness and death of M.M.C. [senior?]
Ms. "Short account of the sickness and death of our beloved mother Rachel Collins who departed this life on the fifteenth day of the ninth month, 1805"
3 ALS Burlington, 1782-1783
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- feathers for a bed
- health of daughter Sally
102 ALS (chiefly written from) Oxmead, 1784-1835
addressed to Susanna and Samuel Emlen; Grace Buchanan; Margaret Morris; John Smith; Margaret H. Hilles; Rachel Stewardson
topics:
- family and friends
General Physical Description note4 folders
2 ALS and 2 poems Westtown School, 1803
poems addressed to Susan Emlen
ALS New York, Jan. 31, 1799
addressed to James Smith
topics:
- financial and legal matter
ALS London Grove, 5 mo. 17, 1796
addressed to Hannah Moore, Phila.
topics:
- religious in nature, on serious illness of Hannah Moore
18 ALS Wilmington, 1786-1799
addressed to cousins, Margaret Morris, H. [Hannah?] Moore
topics:
- friendship
- news of family and friends
6 ALS 1819-1838
addressed to Margaret Hilles; G.M. Smith
3 ALS Burlington, 1781
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- news of family and friends
19 ALS and ms. prayer 1770-1818
addressed to family and friends
topics:
- news of family and friends
5 ALS 1822-1826
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- news of family and friends
4 ALS 1818-1825
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- speaks of his father's will
- family news
ALS 6 mo. 30
addressed to Samuel Emlen
Ms. copy [Susanna Dillwyn was a passenger] of log book kept in the ship Pigon by Capt. Wollman Sutton, from London to Phila., 1788
14 ALS 1783-1784
addressed to William Morris; Gulielma Maria Smith; John Smith; Grace [Buchanan]
topics:
- family
51 ALS (chiefly from) Houghton, 1763-1770
addressed to John Smith [his father-in-law?]
topics:
- news of family and friends
- letter of 7 mo. 28, 1766 mentions Benjamin Franklin's activities in England
General Physical Description note2 folders
ALS Phila., 5 mo. 1, 1765
addressed to Grace Buchanan
topics:
- a cousin of Grace's Mary Stuart, is looking for her
ALS Pocopson, [Ches. Co., Pa.] 6 mo. 13, 1873
addressed to M.H. Hilles
topics:
- health
- bereavement
2 ALS 2nd day and 4th day [no month, no year]
addressed to Mary Sweat [Swett?], Grace Buchanan; Hannah Moore
topics:
- placing a young girl in Deborah Williams home to be brought up [to learn housewifery]
- re: a particular [unspecified] concern
16 ALS and an extract from his will 1815-1837
(1815 letter labeled from the Samuel R. Shipley Coll., 1950) addressed to Thomas Stewardson; Sally Sharpless; Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- family and friends
labeled "Folder 1" (but only 1 folder in box, Nov. 1991)
Ms. copy (18 p.) of extracts from her letters to her father-in-law, Samuel Emlen; also ms. copy of her will
ALS West Hill, Nov. 12, 1816
addressed to Samuel Emlen and wife
topics:
- tells Emlen of his plans to go into business growing vegetables for market and requests some financial assistance
2 ALS 3rd mo. 22, [no year]; and [no date]
addressed to Mrs. John Smith; Hannah Logan
topics:
- re: Yearly Meeting Epistle
- re: book she would like to see published "here"
ALS Ulverston, 4 mo. 30, 1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- requests his advice on some property he placed under the care of Miers Fisher
2 ALS Phila., 1816 and 1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- friendship
- family and friends
- business conditions
Ms. written ca. 1831
topics:
- answers request from Samuel Hilles as to events surrounding the fall and death of Lord Percy at the Battle of Brandywine on 9 mo. 11, 1777
Ms. copy Cork, 7 mo. 4, 1741
addressed to John Pemberton
topics:
- friendship
- religious letter
3 ms. copies [?] of letters 1757 and 1755
Ms. copies of extracts from letters and reminiscences of Samuel
Fothergill
addressed to Ellen Evans; Friends of the Island of Tortola
topics:
- religious in nature
2 ALS [England] 1818
addressed to Susan Emlen, Liverpool
topics:
- re: Susanna Emlen's father
ALS Melksham, 7 mo. 6, 1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- re: information on burial place of Richard Long
ALS Mincing Lane, March 1, 1799
addressed to W. Arthur
topics:
- request to show Mr. Dillwyn his brother's account in Arthur Crammond's books
ALS Stenton, 7 mo. 27, [no year, prob. late 1700s?]
addressed to John Smith
topics:
- expresses thoughts on America
also ms. copy of expressions of Thomas Gawthrop on leaving Phila. in Dec. 1777
ALS Burlington, 6 mo. 17, 1841
addressed to Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- extracts from letter of "S.W." of Clifton, 3 mo. 7, 1841
- comments on John Gossner
also 2 portraits of R.G.
62 ALS 1790-1802
addressed to Margaret Morris
topics:
- friendship
- religious thoughts
- family and friends
- illness and health
General Physical Description note2 folders
Ms. "Brief sketch of the religious experience of [Clarinda,] a woman of color who resides in Beaufort, S.C."
2 ms. copies of extracts from letters of Sarah Tuke written when she was young
topics:
- on her family
2 ALS 1829-1835
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- religious
- news of friends
Ms. copy, Creek Agency, Jan. 22, 1809
addressed to George Churchman
topics:
- tells of BH's work with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Ms. "Some account of the last expressions of our dear Friend Hannah Heacock, wife of Joseph Heacock of Marple in the county of Chester..."
21 ALS and ms. copies 1700-1745
written by Richard Hill, Samuel Preston, Isaac Norris, Robert Scott and Henry Hill to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- Richard Hill's intention to marry Deborah Moore
- commencement of Madeira business house
23 ALS 1746-1751
written by Henry Hill, Richard Hill, D. Hill to family members
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- Richard Hill in Madeira and business improving
- Henry Hill sent to school in Scotland
- land in Maryland
- business matters
- death of Deborah Hill (wife of Richard Hill)
33 ALS 1751-1754
written by D. Hill, Henry Hill, Richard Hill, Mary Moore, M. Lamar, Rachel Hill to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- return of Richard Hill to America from Madeira
20 ALS 1754-1756
written by D. Hill, Richard Hill Jr., Thomas Lamar, M. Lamar, Harriet Hill, Henry Hill, John Scott, Henrietta and Edward Walsby to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- death of Richard Hill, Jr. in Madeira
- death of child of Harriet Scott and attempted robbery of [counting] house
30 ALS and ms. copies 1756-1757
written by Henry Hill, Richard Hill, Hannah Moore, Samuel Preston Moore to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- concern over attentions of Richard Wells to Rachel Hill
- Richard Hill to sail for Madeira again
- robbery of Richard Hill
- narrow escape from shipwreck
- Dr. Lloyd Zachary's will
48 ALS and ms. copies 1757-1761
written by Richard Hill, Henry Hill, Peggy Hill, S. Hill, H. Scott, Richard Wells to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- descriptive letter of country house of Dr. Richard Hill in Madeira
- marriage
40 ALS and ms. copies 1761-1784
written by S. Hill, S.H. Dillwyn, Charles Moore, Henry Hill, Robert Bisset, Thomas Lamar, Richard Hill, M. Lamar, Morris, D. Bisset, J.P. Moore to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- marriage of Henry Hill
- Sarah Hill marries George Dillwyn
- fashionable furniture
- death of Sarah Hill, wife of Joseph
27 ALS 1770-1802
written by Thomas Lamar, H.M., S.H. Dillwyn, Margaret Morris, Charles Moore, S.P. Moore, Rachel Moore, Rachel Wells, M.M. Moore, H. Scott, R. Hill, R.L. Bisset to family
topics (from notes filed with letters):
- death of wife of Henry Hill
- invitation from Henry Hill to young Bisset sisters to come to America
- Thomas Lamar's wish to retire to America
- book compiled by Milcah [?] Martha Moore, used at Westtown School
- letter to a nephew of Drs. Samuel Preston and Charles Moore attempting to dissuade him from joining the military (1777)
- Milcah Martha Moore's disownment from Society of Friends
19 ALS [no year]
written by M.N., M. Hill, R. Hill, P.H. to family
topics:
- chiefly letters to sisters
6 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to her mother, Margaret Hilles and to her aunt, Rachel Stewardson
topics:
- family life and news while her mother is away
15 ALS 1821-1823
also typed transcript of "A Philadelphia Infant School in 1827" addressed to family members (chiefly to her mother)
topics:
- family news and Friends activities
- health concerns
- daughter Gulielma
24 ALS 1824-1827
addressed to family (chiefly to her mother, sister and husband)
topics:
- family news
- death of her brother Richard M. Smith in 1826
- daughter Gulielma
- refers to death of her mother (1826)
20 ALS 1828-1837
addressed to family (chiefly to her sister Rachel Stewardson)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- health concerns
- Hicksite controversy
- school
- move of the household [to Haverford School in 1833]
6 ALS 1838-ca. 1859
addressed to family (includes letter written by son of Rachel Stewardson to his mother with note from her sister Margaret Hilles, 1838)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- relief effort for [?] by collecting old carpets
- children considering relocating elsewhere
- illness and remedies
- advice to her son not to neglect religious duties
23 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to her sister Rachel)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- Meeting
- health concerns
16 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to her mother)
topics:
- news of family
- health concerns
- illness of [cousin Sarah]
15 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to her mother)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- controversy in the Society of Friends due to Elias Hicks
- health concern
- child rearing concerns (trying to break Gulielma's habit of sucking her thumb)
- illness of her brother
9 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to her mother, Gulielma M. Smith)
topics:
- news of family (especially her child, Gulielma)
- severe illness of cousin Sarah
- health concerns
11 ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to her husband, Samuel Hilles)
topics:
- news of family
- visiting her sister (because of childbirth? illness?) and resulting homesickness
- many references to home life and housework that needs to be done
- illness and health
18 ALS 18[26]-1859 and [no month, no year]
addressed to family (chiefly to his wife, Margaret Hilles)
topics:
- family news
- death of Richard M. Smith in 1826
- Meeting activities and news of Friends
also a receipt and a portrait of Samuel Hilles
ALS 2 mo. 16, 1818
addressed to Margaret [H. Smith? later Hilles]
topics:
- expresses confidence in Margaret's ability to be a religious leader
Ms. on Isaac Hornor [by Charles Yarnall?]
2 ms. on Hornor family genealogy
ALS Handsworth, Woodhouse, [mo.] 27, 1729
addressed to Tabitha Hornor from [] Hornor
also includes additional writing addressed to "Dear Jane" from [J. Hannah Deritt?]
topics:
- news of friends
- letter religious in nature
2 ALS Tottenham, 1817 and 1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- shipping Emlen a telescope
- news of Meeting for Sufferings
- informs him of a number of packets to be read on Emlen's trip back to America, prepared by Howard's family and to be opened and read at various designated longitudes
ALS Tottenham, 6 mo. 24, 1818
addressed to Susanna Emlen
topics:
- friendship and farewell letter
3 ALS Albany and New Bedford, 1832 and 1839
addressed to his in-laws [Samuel Hilles]
topics:
- travel
- illness and death of George Howland
- news of family
33 ALS 1851-1859 and [no month, no year]
addressed to family (her parents)
topics:
- family news
- Wilburite controversy
General Physical Description note2 folders
ALS New Bedford, 7th day [no month, no year]
addressed to Gulielma M. Howland
topics:
- sympathy letter re: death of child
also a photograph of Rachel Smith Howland, Wilmington, Del., 1909 "[Donor, with her sister Susan, of the `Gulielma M. Howland' Collection to Haverford College]"
2 ALS New Bedford, 1851 and 1859
addressed to Gulielma [M. Howland]; "My beloved brother and sister"
topics:
- news of family
3 ALS London, 1748/9 and 1749 [also 1 undated]
addressed to [Jane Hoskins]; Hannah Smith; "Dear Friend"
topics:
- travel to London
- religious discussion
3 ALS [England], 1751-1759
addressed to Jane Hoskins, "at Chester in Pennsylvania"
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- friendship
ALS London, 7 mo. 4, 1753
addressed to Jane Hoskins "at Chester in Pennsylvania"
topics:
- Yearly Meeting epistle
- mention of Thomas Penn and Lady Juliana Fermor Penn
- death of Samuel Bownas
ALS Phila., June 5, 1816
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- re: child named Ellen to be placed with Deborah [Williams?] (but not as an indenture)
ALS Bromely Hall, 8 mo. 8, 1755
addressed to "Dear Friend"
topics:
- tells news of "Dear Friend's" brother
ALS Phila., April 19, 1781
addressed to "Sir"
topics:
- medical advice (chiefly on diet to follow)
2 ALS New York, 7 mo. 13 and 10 mo. 27, 1816
addressed to Samuel and Susan Emlen
topics:
- news of family and friends
- death of Susan Allinson
- illness and return from Port-au-Prince of S. Grellet
9 ALS New York, 1816-1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen
topics:
- news of family and friends
2 ALS Stenton, 1814 and 1821
addressed to Susan Emlen; Peter S. Duponceau
topics:
- health of Susan Emlen and proposed remedy for cancer (pipsissewa)
- thanks Duponceau for tribute to her late husband (Dr. George Logan)
includes:
ALS (Logan's copy) Phila., 5 mo. 19, 1708
addressed to William Penn
topics:
- advising Penn to turn the province over to the Queen (printed in F.H.A. Bulletin, 7 (1916):23-26)
ALS (rough draft) 1737
addressed to John Penn
topics:
- Gov. Ogle
- end approaching of Logan's appointment
ALS Sept. 19, [17]49
addressed to J. Kinsey
topics:
- sends text of codicil to his will
Ms. copy of ALS ("Letter from my great grandfather James Logan (4 mo. 5, 1730) to his son William, then bound for Bristol for his education, transcribed from a ms. in the handwriting of his sister Sally, afterwards Norris, 6th mo. 3rd 1810, J.J.S. [John Jay Smith]") portrait of James Logan
General Physical Description note(5 items)
Ms. "My voyage to Great Britain" and "Journal from London for Pensilvania designed in ye Mary Hope Galley..."
topics:
- journal of James Logan's voyage to Great Britain and Spain, etc., 1709
- journal of James Logan's voyage from London to Pennsylvania [1711?]
General Physical Description note(2 items)
AL Phila., July 21, 1723
addressed to his brother [Dr. Wm. Logan, of Bristol, England]
topics:
- gives account of his family and death of youngest child Rachel
- also poem
Ms. in hand of a copyist, with corrections in hand of James Logan of "Cato's Moral Distichs English'd"
General Physical Description note(2 items)
Ms. poem titled "On reading Pope's essay on man"
2 ms. inscribed "to Aresia" [full of advice on how to live]
3 ms. titled "On my soul," "Occasionally...," and "To my self"
General Physical Description note(6 items)
notes in the handwriting of James Logan
(8 items)
ALS 1750/1-1769
addressed to family
topics:
- arrival in Bristol
- news of Friends
2 ALS 4th day evening and undated [1760's? style and content suggest a young girl] addressed to Sally Smith
topics:
- news of family
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
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
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?)
ALS Hampstead, 6 mo. 22, 1818
addressed to Susanna Emlen
topics:
- regrets not seeing her again before Susanna returns to America
ALS Kent, 5 mo. 9, 1788
addressed to Hannah Moore, Philadelphia
topics:
- religious sympathy letter
also 2 TLS re: information on Warner Mifflin
Misc. mss. includes extracts, ms. and printed copies of letters, account of a dream
General Physical Description note(10 items)
ALS Godalming, 5 mo. 23, 1818
addressed to Susanna Emlen
topics:
- friendship
2 ALS [no date]
addressed to his sister [Margaret Morris]
topics:
- refers to settling an estate
26 ALS 1777-1778 and [no date]
addressed to her sister (chiefly to Margaret Morris?)
(also a few misc. accounts of Margaret Moore)
topics:
- news of family and friends
Signed letter, Montgomery, 1793-1795
addressed to her sister Margaret Morris; [Gulielma Smith]
topics:
- sympathy letter and refers to yellow fever epidemic
- wedding of Samuel Emlen
also ms. "Case of Milcah Martha Hill, afterwards Moore" which relates to her disownment by Society of Friends
(Loaned by Dorothea Atwater Smith [Mrs. Edward Wanton Smith], 1945)
5 ALS [no year]
addressed to Margaret Morris
topics:
- news of family and friends
4 ALS [no year]
addressed to Grace Buchanan; Margaret Morris
topics:
- news of family and friends
ms. copy of his will (1781)
ALS, AL 1784 and [1793?]
addressed to his mother; to his sister Gulielma M. Smith
topics:
- mentions death of Anthony Benezet and illness of George Guest
- requests his sister's help in looking after his wife Abby as she is severely ill
37 ALS 1758-1779
addressed to "Billy" and to her sister
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)
32 ALS, AL 1792-1799
addressed 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. Smith..."
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]
63 ALS, AL [no month, no year]
addressed to her sister Hannah (Mrs. Samuel P. Moore), Gulielma M. Smith
(also 2 ALS from her brother-in-law, Richard Wells and some loose accounts related to their business activities as storekeepers)
54 ALS, AL [no month, no year]
addressed to her sister, daughter Gulielma M. Smith, Margaret Morris, Debby Smith, Susan [], Richard Hill, Jr.,
(also a few letters to Margaret Morris from family)
48 ALS, AL [no month, no year]
addressed to "my dear child" (Gulielma M. Smith), Margaret Morris
includes:
- drafts of will and estate related papers of Margaret Morris (ca. 1816)
- misc. accounts
- letters related to estate settlements
- accounts related to the settlement of William Morris, Jr.'s estate (1792)
- misc. papers and accounts related to the estates of Richard Hill, Hannah Moore, Charles Moore, Richard Hill Morris
General Physical Description note(ca. 60 items)
4 ALS [Westtown School], 1807-1808
addressed to her grandmother, Margaret Hill Morris
topics:
- personal matters
- requests "goody bags" from home before new rule at school goes into affect
ALS Phila., 12 mo. 26, [no year]
addressed to her sister
topics:
- family news
ALS Deerfield, Sept. 30, 1807
addressed to her aunt [Margaret Morris]
topics:
- family news
2 ALS Phila., [no year]
addressed to her mother
topics:
- thanks her for gifts
9 ALS 1782-1813
addressed to his mother Margaret Morris; his brother-in-law
Benjamin Smith
topics:
- news of family
- yellow fever epidemic of 1793
ALS [no month, no year]
addressed to Hannah Smith at Burlington
topics:
- friendship
Ms. "Susanna Morris's journal" ca. 29 p.
(note: this journal is published in Comly, "Friends Miscellany, v. 1 (2nd ed.), p. 143 ff.)
topics:
- accounts of her travel as a Quaker minister
Ms. certificate from Wales Yearly Meeting for Susanna Morris and Elizabeth Morgan, dated 2 mo. 2,3,4, 1746 and addressed to Friends in Pennsylvania
ALS Phila., Dec. 23, 1782
addressed to his cousin Margaret Morris
topics:
- wishes to finally settle estate of her father
25 ALS 1757-not after 1766
addressed to Margaret Hill Morris (before and after their marriage)
topics:
- love letters
- news of family and friends
also:
- ms. draft of a will he wrote in 1758 (before they married) leaving Margaret Hill roughly half of his estate
- ms. note "Letters to & from the beloved companion of my happy days; W. Morris, Junr. who departed this life April ye 14th, 1766 aged 30 years & 9 months - M. Morris"
2 ALS Wilmington, 1 mo. 17, and 3 mo. 11, 1834
addressed to Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- refers to death of Margaret Morton's sister
- news of family and Friends
also portrait of M. Morton
ALS 1 mo. 19, 1848
addressed to Joseph Bowne
topics:
- Monthly Meeting has get up a social committee
- Lindly conducting a ["Free Produce Store"]
[Neale, Mary see Peisley, Mary]
2 ALS 1772 and 1778
addressed to Robert Willis; "to Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey &."
topics:
- refers to impossibility of getting to Dublin
- death of John Woolman
- religious letter
also ms. "A Testimony concerning my dearly beloved and deceased wife Mary Neale who departed this life the 20th of 3rd mo. 1757"
5 ALS Phila., 1816-1819
addressed to Samuel and Susan Emlen; Sarah Sharpless
topics:
- news of family and friends
also ms. titled "Part of an introductory lecture delivered by Jos. Parrish, M.D.... 1808" [on true and false philosophy]
ALS Boston, 7 mo. 2, 1856
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- friendship
also portrait of H. Pease
6 ALS and 1 ms. copy 1849-1857
addressed to Samuel Hilles; Henry Hinsdale
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- Meeting matters
ALS Wells in Norfolk, 8 mo. 8, 1744
addressed to John Smith
topics:
- wants to hear all the news from Philadelphia
also ms. account of the travels and work of Peter Andrews [in England]
2 ALS 5 mo. 18, 1756 and Phila., 12 mo. 13, [no year]
addressed to F. Parvin; "Dear Friend"
topics:
- religious discussion
2 ALS Phila., 3 mo. 28, 1771
addressed to William Dillwyn; Hannah Smith
topics:
- sympathy letters on the death of John Smith
ALS Phila., 2 mo. 16, 1757
addressed to his "cousin John"
topics:
- news of family and Friends
5 ALS Phila., 1816-1818
addressed to Samuel and Susan Emlen, [England]
topics:
- news of family
- health of Susan Emlen (breast tumor)
ALS Burlington, 2 mo. 12, 1815
addressed to Margaret H. Smith
topics:
- refuses invitation to join a certain society, organized with a view to the improvement of its members in the science of correct reading
- religious discussion
- encloses poem he has written
ALS Phila., 8 mo. 29, 1770
addressed to her cousin, John Smith
topics:
- family
includes ms. and printed poems, mostly religious and/or tributes to deceased persons; also ms. copy of letter
General Physical Description note(3 folders)
2 ALS London, 10 mo. 16, and Paris, 11 mo. 24, 1816
addressed to Samuel Emlen, England
topics:
- receipt of money from George Dillwyn
- description of Paris and French people
4 ALS Cedar Grove, 1817-1818 and New Bedford, 1819
addressed to Samuel Emlen; Margaret H. Smith
topics:
- news of family and Friends
ALS Antigua, August 12, 1749
addressed to her cousin, Mrs. Hannah Smith, Phila.
topics:
- friendship
2 ALS Medford, N.J., 1852 and 1871
addressed to her aunt [M.M. Hilles]
topics:
- news of family and friends
7 ALS (in 3) [England], 1752-1754
addressed to Grace Buchanan, Pennsylvania
topics:
- death of Mary Reynolds' parents
- news of family and friends
ALS York, 12 mo. 9, 1785
addressed to H. Cathrall
topics:
- his health (letter written a few weeks before his death)
- news of family and friends
Ms. copy of ALS dated Clove, 8 mo. 13, 1796
addressed to Thomas J.
topics:
- includes narrative of a dream he had
- religious discussion
ALS Spring Dale, 10 mo. 23, 1859
addressed to Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- thanks her for boxes sent to him
- his difficult financial situation
2 ALS N. Cornwall, 1781 and Rahway, 1787
addressed to Hannah Moore, Phila.
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- friendship
2 Ms. copies of ALS dated Clifton, 11 mo. 29, 1745/6
addressed to Richard Partridge, London
topics:
- tells of a "skirmish the Duke of Cumberland had with the rebels in their flight out of England towards Scotland"
ALS Bush River, S.C., 2 mo. 12, 1793
addressed to John Smith, Burlington
topics:
- encourages him to come forward as a minister
also 2 portraits (includes a silhouette)
ALS London, 6 mo. 20, 1818
addressed to Susanna Emlen
topics:
- illness of Samuel Emlen
- death of Frances Philips of Tottenham
- news of Friends
ALS "Weston," 12 mo. 6, 1807
addressed to Gulielma M. Smith, Burlington
topics:
- news of family and friends
- concern for Smith's children's spiritual welfare
ALS Haverford College, 6 mo. 3, 1838
addressed to his aunt Rachel Stewardson, Phila.
topics:
- describes walk to Prospect Hill and the Gulf
- summer activities and studies
- Isaac Davis
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
General Physical Description note(2 folders)
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
59 ALS 1762-1769 and [no year]
addressed to his son-in-law George Dillwyn
topics:
- news of family and friends
- business matters
3 ALS 1748-1770
addressed to Hannah Logan; son-in-law William Dillwyn
topics:
- religious thoughts
- medical advice to Wm. Dillwyn
also ms. journal of travel (with Samuel Fothergill in 1754?)
also photoreproduction of silhouette
11 ALS 1750-1769
addressed to family members
topics:
- news of family
- illness of "Jemmy"
- severe hot weather
ALS 1784-1800
addressed to George Dillwyn; Grace Buchanan; wife Gulielma M. Smith; daughter Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- family matters
also ms. note written by Margaret H. Hilles which accompanies letter from her father
ALS Calcutta, March 8, 1800
addressed to his uncle William Dillwyn, London
topics:
- arrival and business conditions in Calcutta
10 ALS 1811-1832
addressed to family members
topics:
- family
also 2 portraits
7 ALS Phila., 1827-1833
addressed to his sister Margaret H. Hilles
topics:
- news of family
- publishing business
17 ALS 1799-1821
addressed to family (chiefly to her parents John and Gulielma M. Smith)
topics:
- letters written home while at Westtown School
- family
16 ALS, AL 1810-1818
addressed to family members (chiefly to her brothers, Morris Smith, John Jay Smith)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
also certificate (1817) stating that MHS has contributed to the Asylum for the relief of persons deprived of their reason, signed by George Vaux
13 ALS 1808-1821
addressed to Sarah Sharpless
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- her work for the Institution for Deaf and Dumb
11 ALS 1816-1821
addressed to Sarah Sharpless
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- death of Hannah Moore (widow of Dr. Charles Moore)
- death of her grandmother Margaret Morris and discovery of her journal
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
Deed to Gulielma M. Smith, 1822 [recorded]
4 ALS 1763 and [no year]
addressed to Grace Buchanan; her father John Smith
topics:
- news of family and friends
2 ALS [ca. 1811] and 1818
addressed to her husband's brothers John and Morris Smith (she was wife of Richard Morris Smith); Susanna Emlen
topics:
- news of family and friends
- value of education
2 ALS Tottenham, 1816 and 1817
addressed to Susanna Emlen
topics:
- illness of Susanna Emlen and medical advice
- finding a cook
Ms. rough copy of a certificate prepared for Daniel Stanton by the Men's Meeting in Philadelphia, addressed to Friends in Barbados, Great Britain and elsewhere, 4 mo. 24, 1748
12 ALS 1826-1839 and [no year]
addressed to her brother; her sister Margaret H. Hilles; son (Thomas?);
topics:
- news of family and friends
also ms. of deathbed prayer of Rachel Stewardson
ALS Oakland, 11 mo. 2, 1834
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- states that it is 7 years since Monthly Meeting Separation
- news of Friends
ALS Baltimore, 10 mo. 17, 1808
addressed to S. Dillwyn
topics:
- refers to researching genealogy of Hill family
ALS Byberry, 5 mo. 15, 1786
addressed to Margaret Morris, Phila.
topics:
- refers to something that needs to be settled between MM and an unnamed party (she is to meet with Joseph Potts)
ALS 4 mo. 24, [no year]
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- asks him to write a contribution in her album
3 ALS Phila., 1816-1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen, London
(also typed transcript of 1818 letter)
topics:
- news of family and Friends
- refers to writing a life of Anthony Benezet
- business depression
- refers to Benjamin West painting "Christ healing the sick" at the Pennsylvania Hospital
- cleaning chimneys with a machine instead of boys
also portrait of RV
Ms. "The following expressions were dropt by our truly valuable friend Robert Walker of Guildersom near Leeds in Yorkshire at the Monthly Meeting held at Brighouse the 26th of 10th Month 1781"
ALS Cottness, October 20, 1757
addressed to [] [letter stained and faint]
topics:
- Richard Wells
43 ALS [chiefly from Phila.], 1755-1793
addressed chiefly to his sister-in-law Margaret Morris; William Morris, Jr.
topics:
- news of family and friends
- can no longer keep son of Sally Johnson ["Jem"] as he behaves very badly
- yellow fever epidemic of 1793
also:
- ALS from Gid Hill Wells (son of Richard Wells) to his aunt Margaret Morris dated Oct. 3, 1798 re: estate of [William Morris]
- Ms. copy of letter to Richard Wells from his sister-in-law Margaret Morris, [no year]
ca. 40 ALS [chiefly from Phila.] 1768-1796
addressed to his sister-in-law Margaret Morris; brother-in-law Henry Hill
topics:
- news of family and friends
- references to Revolutionary War
also numerous loose accounts and receipts [many for store goods]
2 ALS 1839 and [no year]
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- friendship
- attending Meetings
also:
- poem
- portraits (gifts of Wm. L. Baily, 1943; Eleanor Taber, 1851; William Bacon Evans, 1949)
- illustrations of his residence (gifts of Eleanor Taber, 1951; Wm. L. Baily, 1943; Friends Historical Association, 1950)
4 ALS 1762-1763
addressed to Sally Smith; Grace Buchanan
topics:
- friendship
- travel by water
- advice to a young person
ALS Rahway, 7 mo. 16, 1790
addressed to John Cox, Burlington
topics:
- Meetings attended
- religious discussion
- ill health of Phebe Shotwell
3 ALS Phila., 1817-1818
addressed to Samuel Emlen, London
topics:
- news of family and friends
- concern over Susan Emlen's health
- Indian Committee and related Meeting business
- asks SE to secure opinion of Dr. Jenner on new smallpox preventative
also:
- ALS from Mary Wistar to Margaret H. Hilles, dated Phila., 1837 re: concern over health of Samuel Emlen
- broadside "Message from his Excellency the Governor" [Daniel D. Tompkins] re: abolishment of slavery in N.Y.
ALS Barbados, Oct. 3, 1767
addressed to "Dear Madam"
topics:
- final illness and death of HCW's mother
ALS Netherwood, 7 mo. 8, [no year]
addressed to Samuel Hilles
topics:
- invitation to attend commencement at Haverford and sign diplomas