SELECTIONS

FROM THE

LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS

OF THE LATE

SUSANNA MASON;

WITH A BRIEF MEMOIR OF HER LIFE,

BY HER DAUGHTER.

Philadelphia:

RACKLIFF & JONES, PRINTERS,

S. W. CORNER OF GEORGE & SWANWICK STREETS.

1836.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

HAVERFORD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FEB 12 1935

PRESERVATION MASTER

AT HARVARD

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District

Letter to C. M. of Philadelphia, 1770,

Letter from C. M. to S. M. 1770,

Letter dated Mount Welcome, Cecil County,

Letter dated Mount Welcome, Cecil County,

Self-Communion,

Letter describing a Love Adventure,

Letter to P. M. Philadelphia, 1770,

Letter to C. M. of Philadelphia, 1770,

Letter to C. M. of Philadelphia, 1770,

36

38

40

45

53

54

58

60

61

Extract from a letter, dated, 1771,

62

Letter to P. M. of Philadelphia, 1772,

63

Extract from a Letter to a Friend in England,

64

Extract from a letter, dated 1773,

65

Letter recounting a lover's mistake,

66

Answer to a piece published in the Pennsylvania Magazine,

signed "an Old Bachelor,"

Sketch of a visit to Deer Creek in 1828,

71

74

Letter to Richard Hopkins, South River, 1774,

Letter to Friends in Lancaster Jail, 1778,

A Brother personated,

A Poetical Address to an Officer of distinction, 1778,

Fragment,

Sketch of a Journey through some parts of Pennsylvania,

Letter dated Philadelphia, 1779,

Observations respecting S. M.

108

111

115

"Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them,"

Thoughts upon Education,

Christian Charity,

147

A sketch of Ellicott's Mills, and an account of Benjamin

Banneker compiled from remembrances of 1796,

240

To an amiable young Friend who expressed a desire to

Letter from Benjamin Swett to Susanna Hopkins, 1772,

300

Letter from Job Scott to Susanna Mason, 1788,

Extract from a Letter from Catharine Haines to S. M.

Letter from Catharine F. Wistar to Susanna Mason,

Selections by S. M.