Robert Morris papers
by Morris, Robert
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Correspondence, letterbooks, journals and proceedings of the Continental Congress, accounts, and other papers. Most of the public papers relate to the financing of the American government and its forces during the Revolution. Includes the account rendered by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais to Congress in 1782, copies of Morris's official letters, and his private business papers such as correspondence of the Philadelphia shipping firm of Willing, Morris & Company.
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition available, no. 13,219 (8,765-12N).
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1947-1965.
Purchase, 1901-1997 (mainly 1901 and 1917).
Gift, Lawrence M. C. Smith, 1976.
Superintendent of finance for the Continental Congress during the Revolution, merchant, land speculator, and statesman.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
Most of the papers were formerly owned by Meredith Read.
One letter (1778) was previously cataloged separately as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
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