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Robinson Family papers

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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Call Number:
MC.1136
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
3.25 linear ft. (6 boxes, 3 volumes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Robinson Family papers (HC.MC.1136) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Date:
1723 - circa 1980 (inclusive)
Creator:
Morton, Mary Robinson, 1757-1829
Abstract:
Primarily the letters of Mary Robinson Morton (1757-1829), a member of the Society of Friends, reflecting the social and cultural attitudes of the day.

Mary Robinson Morton (1757-1829) was a minister in the Society of Friends. Born in Rhode Island, she moved to Philadelphia with her husband, John Morton, whom she married in 1793.

Papers consist of approximately 500 letters written by Mary Robinson Morton (1757-1829) in the period 1790-1829 and transcripts of these letters. She wrote most often to her parents, Thomas Robinson and Sarah Richardson Robinson, sisters Abigail Robinson and Amy Robinson Bowne (who married Robert Bowne of New York), and brothers Thomas and Rowland. The letters are primarily of a personal and family nature, reflecting the social and cultural attitudes of the day, touching occasionally on the Hicksite controversy within the Society of Friends, the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia and its continued ravages in 1798, as well as on the dreaded effects of smallpox.

In addition, there are transcripts of other Robinson family correspondence, including that written by the French officer Vicomte de Noailles to Mary Robinson while he was stationed in Newport, which are currently housed elsewhere; abstracts of selected letters; genealogical information; poetry of Mary Morton and Amy Bowne and other miscellany; [The Robinson Family Letters], in typescript, edited by Deborah Smith Lutman, a direct descendant, ca. 1980.

Original processing history is unknown. Reboxed and finding aid revised March, 2022 by Sakina Gulamhusein.

An extensive Robinson collection is located at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, VT. Silhouettes of Mary and John Morton, Amy and Robert Bowne at American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia; Deborah Smith Lutman has a silhouette of Abigail Robinson. A similar collection of materials is to be found at the Newport Historical Society in Newport, R.I.

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Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1790-1794.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1795-1797.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1798-1800.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1801.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1802-1804.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1805-1806.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1811-1813.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1814-1815.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1816-1817.
Box 1
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1820-1824.
Box 2
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1825-1826.
Box 2
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, 1827-1829.
Box 2
Letters of Mary Robinson Morton, undated.
Box 2

Miscellaneous Letters to or from Robinson family members, 1770-1786.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous letters to or from Robinson family members with typed transcripts, 1770-1786 and n.d. (8 items)

Miscellaneous Items.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Wills of Abigail Robinson and Lydia Hazard; description of the character of Abigail Robinson, commonplace book kept by Mary R. Morton which shows the wide range of her interests; etc. another added by purchase, 11-83.

Mary Robinson Morton Poetry.
Box 2
Amy Robinson Bowne Poetry.
Box 2
Genealogical information.
Box 2
Poetry, Letters.
Box 2
Almanac, 1794-1803.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Containing notes by Mary R. Morton from 1793-1813 on daily events, prescriptions, letters written, quotes, etc.

Almanac, 1804-1813.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Containing notes by Mary R. Morton from 1793-1813 on daily events, prescriptions, letters written, quotes, etc.

Lettres d'une Peruvienne, par Mme. de Graffigny, 1773.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Lettres d'une Peruvienne, par Mme. de Grafigny, 1773. The property of Maria (Mary) Robinson

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions Footnotes, 1723-1789.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of letters both at Haverford and elsewhere: 1723-1789; key to locations of Robinson family papers; abstracts of selected letters; genealogical information

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1723-1750.
Box 2
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1750-1760.
Box 2
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1760.
Box 2
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1760-1770.
Box 2
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1770-1779.
Box 2
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1780-1785.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Benjamin R. Smith Manuscript

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1785-1788.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Benjamin R. Smith Manuscript

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1789.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Benjamin R. Smith Manuscript

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1723-1832.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Sources and Key. Geneological Info

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1790.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1791.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1792.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1793.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1794.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1795.
Box 3
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1796.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1797.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1798.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1799.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1800.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1801.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1802.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1803.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1804.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1805.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1806.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1807-1810.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Poor Will's Alamanac

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1811.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

one letter plus alamanac

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1812.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1813.
Box 4
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1814.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1815.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1816.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1817.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1818.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1819.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1820-1821.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1822.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1823.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1824.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1825.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1826.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1827.
Box 5
Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1828.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

M.R.M folded notes to E.M.S.

Letters of Robinson Family Members Transcriptions, 1829.
Box 5

Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 1/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 2/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 3/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 4/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 5/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 6/7.
Box 6
Typescripts: The Robinson Family Letters edited by Deborah Smith Lutman pt. 7/7.
Box 6

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