Robinson Family papers, 1723-1980

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Robinson Family papers, 1723-1980

1723-1980

https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1136

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.

4.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

eng, Latn

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

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Robinson, Thomas R. (Thomas Richardson), 1761-1851

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Robinson, Thomas, 1731-1817

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Bowne, Amy Robinson

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