PRIMARY SOURCES : LETTERS

Because written notes were the primary means of communication before the twentieth century, letters provide a great variety of information--from the highly personal to the "stricly business".

Stephen Smith letter to Daniel Gibbons (5 March 1840); Transcription

Elizabeth Pownall letter to her aunt (1851)
page 1 -- page 2 -- page 3; Transcription
Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, Pa.

Dickinson Gorsuch letter to Levi Pownall (18 October 1852)
page 1 -- page 2 -- page 3
Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, Pa.