Letters, 1862-1923.

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Letters, 1862-1923.

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The three members of the Morris family represented in this correspondence are Thomas Burnside Morris, his wife Sarah Arndt Sletor Morris, and their son Roland Sletor Morris. The letters of Thomas B. Morris include: 1861-1862, to his family from Panama where Morris worked loading and unloading ships cargo; 1868-1869, to his family reporting on his work as an engineer with the Union Pacific Railroad from Green River to Promontory, UT; 1870-1873, to his family and fiancee while an engineer in Ohio and with the Northern Pacific Railroad in MN; 1875-1885, to his mother and brother concerning family matters, from San Rafael, CA, where he settled and became President of the Renton Coal Company. Roland S. Morris maintained a faithful correspondence with his mother and his letters, 1884, 1890-1906, 1920, recount particularly activities as a student at Lawrenceville School, NJ, and as a freshman at Princeton University. After 1899 the correspondence is strictly of a family nature, with a few 1920 letters mentioning Morris' role as Ambassador to Japan. The remainder of the correspondence, 1909-1915, 1923, is from Sarah S. Morris to her son on family matters with some commentary on Roland's growing involvement in Democratic politics and the effects of war in Germany where Mrs. Morris lived from 1912 to 1915.

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