Collection Title: Whitaker and Pennypacker Family Correspondence
Collection Number: 125
Dates of Collection: 1821-1934, bulk 1850-1900
Box Numbers: 1-3
Repository: Chester County Historical Society
The letters of the Whitaker/Pennypacker families who were brought together with the marriage of Isaac A. Pennypacker and Anna Maria Whitaker in 1839. The two were married in Phoenixville, Chester County. They had four children of which three lived to adulthood. Isaac A. Pennypacker graduated from medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and started a practice in Phoenixville. Then, in 1854, he began teaching at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. He died in 1856 from typhoid fever.
Dr. Pennypacker’s eldest son began working at the age of 13 as a clerk in a Philadelphia. He served briefly in the Civil War with a Pennsylvania militia company in 1863 was then drafted and excused when his Uncle hired a replacement. Samuel studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, practiced in Philadelphia and was heavily involved in civic affairs. After holding a series of judgeships and public offices in Philadelphia, he was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1902. Samuel died in 1916.
Isaac R. Pennypacker, son of Isaac and Maria Anna, attended the Hill School in Pottstown in the late 1860s. Isaac R. went on to work for a number of newspapers in Philadelphia. He also published works of poetry and history. He wrote an article titled (title) that was published in the first issue of the American Mercury in (date)
The Whitaker family owned a number of iron furnaces in both Pennsylvania and Maryland including the Durham Iron Works in Montgomery County Pennsylvania and the Principio Furnace in Cecil County Maryland.
Three bound volumes of letters. The first two volumes contains letters sent to Anna Maria (Whitaker) Pennypacker, wife of Dr. Isaac A. Pennypacker and mother of future Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker. The third volume contains letters of the Whitaker family and Isaac R. Pennypacker, the son of Isaac A. Pennypacker and Anna Maria Pennypacker. Isaac R. Pennypacker’s margin notes appear throughout all volumes.
The first volume–1821-1866 -contains the letters of the Whitaker children and letters related to the Whitaker family’s iron business. Also includes letters to Anna Maria Pennypacker from her husband, Dr. Isaac A. Pennypacker, related to his time in Philadelphia as a medical student and eventually as a practicing physician and instructor at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Includes letters of Anna Maria and Isaac’s children after the Isaac’s death in 1856. The early letters of Samuel W. Pennypacker describe his work in Kensington (Philadelphia) as a drugstore clerk and apprentice including detailed description of his daily life in the city. Also contains his brief stint in the army during the Civil War and the beginning of his studies to become a lawyer. Henry Clay Pennypacker began corresponding with his mother when he went to work in Philadelphia and lived with his brother Samuel. Volume I also has a number of letters from Joseph R. Whitaker, brother of Anna Maria Pennypacker, who appears to have acted as a caretaker for the Pennypacker boys after the death of their father.
The majority of the correspondence in Volume II is to Anna Maria Pennypacker from her sons Samuel, Henry, James and Isaac. Letters were sent while the boys were living in Philadelphia, attended school or traveling to various destinations in the Northeast and Upper South. Isaac sent letters while attending the Hill School in Pottstown. Both Henry and Samuel sent letters from Philadelphia detailing their early lives as up and coming professionals–Samuel as a lawyer in training and Henry as a clerk in a relatives store. Also includes letters to Anna Maria Pennypacker from the Whitaker family in Maryland and her sisters, Gertrude and Elizabeth. The majority of these letters relay family news or details of the family iron business and related activities. Letters in the late 1890s include details of a trip to Europe by Samuel W. and Isaac Pennypacker along with their families. Volume II also contains non-correspondence including school essays by James Pennypacker, itemized expense sheets, invitations/announcements and calling cards.
The final bound volume is titled “Letters, Whitaker Family, 1832-1934.” The majority of the letters deal with the family iron business in Pennsylvania (Durham Iron Works) and Maryland (Principio Iron Works, Elk Iron Works). Comprised mainly of letters to and from the children of Joseph W. Whitaker (Phoenixville, Chester County). In addition to correspondence related to business, letters also relay news of family and health. The first pages of this volume includes photographs of George W. Whitaker, Joseph Whitaker and a photo of the Durham Iron Works.
NOTE:
The elder Joseph Whitaker is entered without a middle initial. His son appears as Joseph R. Whitaker.
Box 1
Correspondence, Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1821-1866, Volume I
(includes letter numbers 21464 to 21700)
Genealogical information, Whitaker family; 21464
Lease, Delaware Rolling Mill to J. J. Whitaker, 1821/8/8; 21465
Whitaker, Maria to Sarah Ann Whitaker, 1829/11/22 (from Kimberton, PA); 21466
Cardell, Cornelia to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1829/11/22 (from Kimberton, PA); 21466
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1831/2/13 (from Wilmington, DE); Topics include: eclipse; 21467
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1831/5/22 (from Wilmington, DE); Topics include: school; 21468
Holstein, L. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1831/11/27 (from Kimberton, PA); 21469
Janney, Sarah to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1831/11/27 (from Kimberton, PA); 21469
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1832/4/5 (from Elk Iron Works); Topics include: business; 21470
“Amulette and Gertrude” to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1832/9/14 (from Kimberton, PA); 21471
Pennypacker, Joseph R. to “mother”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], c. 1868; 21472
Kimber, Martha to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1832/12/27 (from Kimberton, PA); 21473
Kimber, Emma to Joseph Whitaker, 1833/1/4; Topics include: receipt for payment; 21474
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1833/5/29 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: exhibition of wild beasts; 21475
Taylor, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1836/10/27 (from Port Elizabeth); 21476
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1836/9/21 (from Elk Iron Works); 21477
Kimber, Martha to Ann Maria Whitaker, 1837/6/13 (from Kimberton, PA); Topics include: abolition, anti-slavery, abolitionist tracts; 21478
“Mary Ann” to Ann Maria Whitaker, 1837/8/16 (from Reading); 21479
Whitaker, William P.C. to “father”[Joseph Whitaker], 1838/2/19 (from New Orleans, LA); Topics include: sea voyage, the people of New Orleans, slavery in New Orleans; 21480
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1838/8/14 (from “on board steam boat, Governor Shelby”); Topics include: travel up the Mississippi River, slaves and Indians; 21481
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1838/4/24 (from Cincinnati, OH); Topics include: travel from St. Louis to Cincinnati; 21482
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1838/6/31 (from Albany, NY); Topics include: business trip, description of buildings and homes in New England; 21483
Whitaker, G.[ertrude] K. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1839/5/19 (from Kimberton); 21484
Pennypacker, Isaac to [Samuel A. Whitaker], 1840/3/4; 21484a
Whitaker, Gertrude K. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1843/12/16 (from Wilmington, DE); Topics include: school; 21485
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1846/4/29 (from Elkton, MD); Topic include: travel from Phoenixville to Elkton; 21486
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1846/4/30 (from Washington, DC); Topics include: travel from Elkton to Washington, DC; 21487
Whitaker, Joseph to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1847/5/27 (from Havre De Grace); 21488
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1847/6/30 (from Juniata Park); Topics include: travel; 21489
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1847/7/2 (from Meadville); 21490
Receipts, tuition payments for John Pennypacker, 1847-1848; 21491-21493
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1847/7/3 (from “Steamboat Cleveland, Lake Erie”); Topics include: travel, description of steamboat accident; 21494
Pennypacker, Anne Blake M. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1848/10/1 (from Wheeling); 21495
Pennypacker, John C. to “aunty” , 1849/3/6 (from Phoenixville, PA); Note: “John’s first attempt at letter writing, I.A.P.”; 21496
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1849/2/16 (from Harrisburg, “Committee room at capitol”); Topics include: “Legislative Temperance Society”, “The Ten Hour Law”, Pennsylvania politics/politicians; 21497
Pennypacker, John C. to “father”[Isaac A. Pennypacker], 1849/2/18 (from Phoenixville, PA); 21498
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1849/2/21 (from Harrisburg); Topics include: Pennsylvania politics; 21499
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1849/2/22 (from Harrisburg); 21500
Whitaker, J. Elizabeth to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1849/5/28 (from Boston); Topics include: trip to Boston; 21501
Pennypacker, John C. to “father and mother”[Isaac and Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1849/12/24 (from Philadelphia); 21502
Christman, Isabel to “friends”[Isaac and Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1850/1/6 (from Philadelphia); 21503
Whitaker, Caroline to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1850/2/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: blanket shawls; 21504
Buckwalter, Mary to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1850 (from Berkeley Springs, VA); Topics include: Strothers Hotel; 21505
Pennypacker, Jacob to Joseph Whitaker, 1851/7/5; Topics include: sale of property; 21506
Christman, Isabel to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1851/7/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: arrangement for visit; 21507
Whitaker, George to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1851/7/12 (from Principio Furnace, MD); Topics include: death of John C. Pennypacker [Anna Maria Pennypacker’s son]; 21508
Whitaker, Caroline to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1851/7/22 (from Principio Furnace, MD); Topics include: death of John C. Pennypacker; 21509
Christman, I.W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1852/12/28 (from Philadelphia); 21510
Pennypacker, Mary to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1853/2/17 (from Oakland Seminary, Norristown, PA); 21511
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1853/12/26 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: fight and subsequent arrests in Phoenixville; 21512
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1854/1/18 (from Philadelphia); Note: includes extensive explanatory note about the death of Isaac A. Pennypacker written by his son Isaac Rushing Pennypacker, August 1927; Topics include: teaching medicine; 21513
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1854/3/22 (from Philadelphia College of Medicine); Topics include: medical students; 21514
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1854/4/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: boarding/accommodations in Philadelphia; mentions John Haviland; 21515
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1855/6/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: school; 21516
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1855/8/10 (from Durham, PA); Topics include: school; 21517
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1855/8/17 (from Durham, PA); Topics include: riding horses; 21518
Whitaker, J. Elizabeth to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/1/23 (from Norristown, PA); Topics include: teaching; 21519
Whitaker, J. Elizabeth to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/2/27 (from Norristown, PA); Topics include: teaching; visit to Philadelphia; 21520
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/3/11 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: staying with relatives after the death of his father, Isaac A. Pennypacker; farm sale; 21521
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/3/14 (from Mont Clare, PA); 21522
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/3/19 (from Mont Clare, PA); 21523
Pennypacker, M.R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/4/7 (from Schuylkill); Topics include: request for biographical information for the late Isaac A. Pennypacker; 21524
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/4/23 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: daily activities; 21525
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/5/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: fire in Philadelphia; 21526
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/5/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: property in Philadelphia; 21527
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/5/5 (from Philadelphia); 21528
Whitaker, Mary to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/5/22 (from Mount Pleasant); 21529
Tyson, James L. to Joseph R. Whitaker, 1856/5/28 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: memory of Isaac A. Pennypacker; 21530
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/7/22 (from Old Point Comfort, VA); Topics include: observations of the South; 21531
Reeves, D. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/7/30 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: renting property; 21532
[?] to “madam”, 1856/7/31; 21533
[?] to Anna Maria Painter, 1856/7/31; 21534
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/8/3 (White Sulphur Springs, VA); Topics include: curative powers of sulfur springs; leisure trip; 21535
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/9/28 (from Wheeling, VA); 21536
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1856/11/18 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Note: Includes explanatory note by Isaac R. Pennypacker; Topics include: financial advice; possible sale of Philadelphia house; 21537
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/11/27 (from Philadelphia); 21538
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/3/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: education and welfare of the Pennypacker children; 21539
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/3/14 (from Wheeling); 21540
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/4/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matters; 21541
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/5/6 (from Philadelphia); 21542
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/5/26 (from Philadelphia); 21543
Pennypacker, M.A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/5/30 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: living arrangements; offer to share a house; 21544
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/6/4 (from Philadelphia); 21545
“Isabel” to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/6/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: sickness in her family; inquiries regarding employment; 21546
Anderson, Ben to George M. Whitaker, 1857/6/11 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: employment for Samuel W. Pennypacker; 21547
Whitaker, George M. to Anna Marie Pennypacker, 1857/6/12 (from Durham, PA); Topics include: possible employment in a drugstore for Samuel W. Pennypacker; 21548
Whitaker, George M. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/6/20 (from Durham, PA); Topics include: arrangements for Samuel W. Pennypacker’s employment with Ben Anderson; 21549
Pennypacker, Samuel M. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/7/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: details of his employment in a drugstore; life in Philadelphia; murder of Edward Muldoon; 21550
Pennypacker, Samuel to Harry Pennypacker, 1857/7/13 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: details of his employment in a drugstore; 21551
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/7/17 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: report on Samuel W. Pennypacker; business; 21552
“Isabel” to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/7/21 (from Philadelphia); 21553
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/8/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily life in Philadelphia; 21554
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/8/9 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: employment in a drugstore; 21555
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/8/21 (from Philadelphia); 21556
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily life in Philadelphia; 21557
Whitaker, William P.C. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/10/17 (from Mount Pleasant); 21558
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/9/20 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: drug business in Philadelphia; business conditions; 21559
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/11/11 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: sickness in Philadelphia; street conditions; drugstore operations; 21560
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/10/26 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: daily life in Philadelphia; 21561
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/10/29 (from Philadelphia); 21562
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/11/2 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: daily life; Ben Anderson’s plans to sell his drugstore; 21563
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/11/11 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: visiting slave preacher attempting to buy his freedom, Ben Anderson’s desire to sell his drugstore; 21564
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/11/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: death of Madam Rush, daily life; 21565
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/12/7 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: financial matter, mentions Henry Ward Beecher lecture; 21566
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1857/12/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: relationship with Dr. Ben Anderson [his boss], daily life; 21567
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/1/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: attempted poisoning by a “deranged” mother, return to Philadelphia after a visit home; 21568
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/1/18 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: family businesses, daily life; 21569
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/1/26 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: opening of a new railroad line; 21570
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/2/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: hard times; 21571
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/2/10 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: medical treatment for his hands, “bogus money”; 21572
Whitaker, George W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/3/20 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); 21573
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/3/24 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); 21574
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/4/12 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: visit to monument commemorating William Penn’s treaty, brotherly advice; 21575
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/4/18 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: walk to Frankford; 21576
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/4/21 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: con men, counterfeit money; 21577
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to J. Elizabeth Whitaker, 1858/4/26 (from Philadelphia); 21578
“Isabel” to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/5/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: loneliness; 21579
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Harry Pennypacker, 1858/5/3 (from Philadelphia); 21580
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/5/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: fire in the drugstore; 21581
Pennypacker, Matthias J. to “sister”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1858/5/29 (from Schuylkill); Topics include: death of infant; 21582
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/5/31 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); 21583
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Ann Maria Pennypacker, 1858/6/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Dr. Anderson’s recovery from burns; 21584
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/6/13 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); 21585
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/6/21 (from Kensington, Philadelphia); Topics include: Sunday activities; 21586
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/6/29 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activity; 21587
Pennypacker, Mary Ann to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/6/7 [from Hartford County, MD]; Topics include: visit to her brother Washington Pennypacker; 21588
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/7/18 (from Philadelphia); 21589
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1858/8/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: new position in the drug business; 21590
Chrisman, J.W. to “friend”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1858/9/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: house for sale in Philadelphia, shawls; 21591
Smith, Mary to “Mrs. [Anna Maria] Pennypacker”, 1858/9/22 (from Durham, PA); 21592
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. [Anna Maria] Pennypacker”, 1858/11/26 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: women seeking employment as teachers, death of a 13 year old girl from pneumonia, property sale; 21593
Rand, B.H. to “sir”, 1858/12/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: property settlement regarding the estate of Isaac A. Pennypacker; 21594
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/1/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: money management; 21595
Chrisman, J.R. to “Mrs. [Anna Maria] Pennypacker”, 1859/1/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: making shirts, brother’s marriage; 21596
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/3/6 (from Germantown); 21597
Whitaker, Mary Jane to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/8/16 (from Durham, PA); Topics include: domestic servants; 21598
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/8/19 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: visiting Dr. Ben Anderson’s farm [his old boss in the drugstore]; 21599
Prichard, Anthony Pinkerton to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/8/22 (from Granville, Licking county, OH); Topics include: manuscript of a history of Chester County by Isaac A. Pennypacker; 21600
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/9/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: groceries; 21601
Thompson, Gertrude K. (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1859/11/15 (from West Philadelphia); Topics include: sewing machines, church re-opening; 21602
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Samuel W. Pennypacker, 1860/6/6 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: political appointments; 21603
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/1/14 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: financial matters; 21604
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/1/15 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: domestic servants, politics, national political divisions, opinion of “Guardian” newspaper; 21605
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/2/7 (from Pottstown); Note: misplaced chronologically; 21606
Whitaker, Grace to “dear son”[George Whitaker], 1860/3/27 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: birth of “many sons” at “one birth” [George’s wife Mary Jane Whitaker]; 21607
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/4/4 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: family visit; 21608
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/4/15 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: domestic servants; 21609
Pennypacker, Henry C. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/8/14 (from Durham); Topics include: daily activities while visiting Uncle George Whitaker; 21610
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Ann Maria Pennypacker, 1860/9/7 (from Forrest Hill); Topics include: walking trip from Phoenixsville, PA to Harsford County, MD; 21611
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/9/8 (from Havre De Grace, MD); Topics include: traveling; 21612
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/9 (from Principio, MD); Topics include: leisure activity; 21613
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Samuel W. Pennypacker, 1860/10/14 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); 21614
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. [Anna Maria] Pennypacker”, 1861/2/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: business dealings, “old friend” sent to Insane Asylum; 21615
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1860/3/20 (from Mount Pleasant); 1860/3/20; Topics include: life on the farm; 21616
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1860/3/20 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: politics; opinion of Abraham Lincoln, Civil War; 21617
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. [Anna Maria] Pennypacker”, 1861/4/10 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: lease of a domestic servant, sale and transport of a saddle; 21618
Joseph Whitaker & Co. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1861/4/20 (from Durham Iron Works); Topics include: financial payment; 21619
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1861/8/2 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: attempt to have Samuel Pennypacker appointed to West Point, failed attempt to meet with Abraham Lincoln; 21620
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1861/8/12 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: peaches; 21621
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “family”, 1861/8/13 (from Philadelphia); 21622
Joseph Whitaker & Co. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1861/10/15 (from Durham Iron Works); Topics include: financial payment; 21623
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. [Annie Maria] Pennypacker”, 1861/11/13 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: attempts to find occupants to share her home, living arrangements, nephew’s enlistment in the army, Civil War; 21624
Chrisman, J.W. to “friend”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1862/1/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: living arrangements, Civil War; 21625
Joseph Whitaker & Co. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1862/4/9 (from Durham Iron Works); Topics include: financial payment; 21626
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1862/2/27 (from Germantown); Topics include: her boy’s service in the Civil War; 21627
Joseph Whitaker & Company to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1862/10/9 (from Durham Iron Works); Topics include: financial payment; 21628
Whitaker, Grace to Mary Jane Whitaker, 1862/10/11 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: Mary Jane Whitaker’s health; 21629
Chrisman, J.W. to “friend”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1862/10/29 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: death of relatives while serving in the Civil War; 21630
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/6/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: mentions visiting a wounded soldier, Oscar Roberts; 21631
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “nephew”, 1863/6/13 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial investment of Anna Maria Pennypacker, speculation regarding post war economy; 21632
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/6/13 (from Chambersburg, PA); Topics include: army life, Civil War, service in the Pennsylvania militia; 21633
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “sister”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1863/8/14 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Samuel Pennypacker drafted into the army, Samuel Pennypacker plans to study law, avoiding service, Civil War; 21634
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “nephew”[Samuel W. Pennypacker], 1863/8/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Civil War draft, thoughts on intellectual pursuits; 21635
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/10/24 (from Wheeling); Topics include: visiting Wheeling; 21636
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/10/28 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: life in Philadelphia, whiskey; 21637
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/11/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: sale of Pennsylvania Railroad stock; 21638
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/11/22 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: pickled pork; 21639
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1863/12/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: clothes/clothing, details regarding a William Lloyd Garrison lecture, feelings towards racial mixing at Garrison lecture, observations of Frederick Douglas, details about Garrison’s speaking style, abolitionists; 21640
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/1/22 (from Philadelphia); 21641
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/23 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: education of Henry Pennypacker, possible relocation to Philadelphia; 21642
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/25 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial investment; 21643
Joseph Whitaker & Co. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/4/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matter; 21644
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/4/4 (from Philadelphia); 21645
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/4/20 (from Philadelphia); 21646
Receipt, loan from Anna Maria Pennypacker to Joseph R. Whitaker; 21647
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/4/26; Topics include: financial matter; 21648
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: residing in Philadelphia with his brother, trip to the Mercantile Library; 21649
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: leisure in Philadelphia; 21650
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/11 (from Philadelphia); 21651
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: clothes; 21651
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5/31 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21652
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: description of “soldiers refreshment saloon”; 21653
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/6/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: sanitary fair in Philadelphia, mentions a visit to West Chester, PA; 21654
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/6/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: return of soldiers, Civil War; 21655
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/6/24 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: train robbed by “secessionists”, military matters; 21656
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/8/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: attributes of a good letter, health; 21657
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/9/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Civil War news; 21658
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/10/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: copperheads; 21659
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/10/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: participation in a procession [purpose not specified]; 21659
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/11/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: political meetings; 21660
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/11/13 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: reading habits, Civil War soldier with brain disorder caused by “terrible scenes” witnessed in battle, street fights in Philadelphia during the election of 1864, rigors of studying law; 21661
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1864/11/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: speech he delivered on capital punishment, thoughts on the theater and the opera; 21662
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Samuel W. Pennypacker, 1864/12/28 (from Philadelphia); 21663
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/1/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: assisting customers while working as a store clerk; 21664
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/2/27 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: moving to a new boarding house; 21665
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/3/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: successful participation in a public debate; 21666
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/3/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: new boarding house; 21667
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/3/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: brother Harry’s future; 21668
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/4/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: reaction in Philadelphia to the end of the Civil War; 21669
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/4/16 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: reaction to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; 21670
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/4/24 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: President Lincoln’s funeral procession in Philadelphia; 21671
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/5/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21672
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/5/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: shopping for clothes; 21673
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/5/22 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: capture of Jefferson Davis; 21674
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/5/26 (from Philadelphia); 21675
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/6/26 (from Philadelphia);
Topics include: preparations for summer; 21676
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/7/10 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: hanging of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination; 21677
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/7/17 (from Philadelphia); 21678
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/8/28 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: new living arrangements, boarding with a war widow; 21679
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: brother Henry C. Pennypacker
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Henry C. Pennypacker, 1865/9/8 (from Philadelphia); 21681
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/9/18 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: employment with Philadelphia and Providence Oil Company; 21682
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/9/22 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21683
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/10/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: leisure; 21684
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/10/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: mentions a “number of robberies”; 21685
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/10/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: debate on equality of the sexes, fires in the city Bancroft Literary Union; 21685
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/10/14 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: mentions boot and shoemaker strike, running to fires, leisure; 21686
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/10/15 (from Philadelphia); Note: written backwards with attached note stating, “read this letter in a mirror”; 21687
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1865/10/18 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: parade, leisure; 21688
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/5 (from Philadelphia); 21689
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21690
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/12 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21691
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to “Ike” [Isaac R. Pennypacker], 1865/11/14 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: working for “Uncle Joe” in Philadelphia, delivering mail to Norristown; 21692
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/19 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21693
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/19 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: living arrangements; 21693
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/11/27 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: new living arrangements, Bancroft Literary Union; 21694
program, Bancroft Literary Union, announcement for a public meeting, 1865/12/1 (from Philadelphia); 21695
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/12/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities; 21696
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/12/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: details of a women described as “what a women should be”, public speaking; 21696
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1865/12/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: literary convention, debate regarding admission of a “colored [literary] society” into the literary convention; 21697
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/1/8 (from Philadelphia); 21698
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/1/21 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: ice skating; leisure, nightly activities, new railroad proposed across North America, literary societies, controversy at the Bancroft Literary Society; 21699
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/2/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: speech at the Academy of Music for the Literary Union, daily activities, “Coal Oil Johnny”; 21700
Correspondence, Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866-1899, Volume II
(includes letter numbers 21701 to 21927)
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to “Bro.” [Isaac R. Pennypacker], 1866/3/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: working at “Uncle Joe’s store”; 21701
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/3/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: bar examinations, Dr. Ben Anderson, professional life; 21702
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/3/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily activities, Dr. Jaynes home on Chestnut Street, national politics; 21703
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/3/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: plans for future employment; 21704
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/3/11 (from Philadelphia); 21704
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [1868/11/17] (from Hill School); Note: annotated with the following “Letter seems to be misplaced, date is probably 1868 not 1866”; 21705
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/3/25 (from Philadelphia); 21706
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: conflict at Bancroft Literary Society meeting, Caleb Cope and his young wife; 21707
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/13 (from Philadelphia); Topic include: selling gold, social relations, interaction with “street walkers” [prostitutes]; 21708
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/13 (from Philadelphia); 21708
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/16 (from Philadelphia); 21709
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/22 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: funny comments about “Sam’s love” [Samuel W. Pennypacker]; 21710
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/22 (from Philadelphia); 21710
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to “Bro.” (Isaac R. Pennypacker); 1866/4/26 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: news from the city; 21711
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/4/30 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Anton Probst trial; 21712
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/5/3 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: leisure; 21713
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/5/7 (from Philadelphia); 21714
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/5/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: living arrangements, Mercantile Library, male/female social relations; 21714
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to “Bro. Jim” [James R. Pennypacker], 1866/5/8 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: daily life and news from the city; 21715
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/5/14 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: bar examination, clothing; 21716
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/5/14 (from Philadelphia); 21717
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/6/24 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: picnic at Laurel Hill; 21718
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/6/24 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: evening activities, Galusha Pennypacker; 21718
Meigs, M. to “Mrs. Pennypacker”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1866/8/14 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school for James Pennypacker; 21719
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/11/23 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school, mentions baseball; 21720
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1866/12/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: attending church; 21721
Whitaker, E.R. to “Auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1867/2/1 (from Mt. Pleasant); Topics include: family news; 21722
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/2/17 (from Philadelphia); 21723
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/2/17 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: membership to the Mercantile Library, parading “damsels” on Walnut Street; 21723
Pennypacker, Isaac to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/2/23 (from Philadelphia); 21724
Whitaker, Mary to “sister” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1867/2/25 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: surgery; 21725
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “sister” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1867 (from Mt. Pleasant); 21726
“Mary” [cousin] to James Pennypacker, 1867/4/11; Topics include: daily activities; 21727
“Ellen” [niece] to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1867/4/11 (from [Maryland]); Topics include: family news; 21728
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/4/29 (from Philadelphia); 21729
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/4/30 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school; 21730
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/5 (from Philadelphia); 21731
Pennypacker, Gertrude K. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/7/26 (from Lancaster); Topics include: plans to attend a camp meeting, boiler explosion; 21732
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/10/7 (from Philadelphia); 21733
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/11/18 (from Philadelphia); 21734
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/11/18 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: money issues, social life; 21735
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/12/12 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: evening activity; 21736
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1867/12/16 (from Philadelphia); 21737
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/1/6; Topics include: family news; 21738
Pennypacker, Isaac to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/1/14 (from Hill School); Topics include: activities at school; 21739
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/2/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: house for sale in Philadelphia; 21740
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/2/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: house in Philadelphia, work in a printing office; 21741
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/2/24 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: buying a home, learning languages, excitement over controversy surrounding Andrew Johnson; 21742
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/3/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: national politics, criticism of Andrew Johnson; 21743
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/3 (from Philadelphia); 21744
Pennypacker, James R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/3/28 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school; 21745
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/4/12 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: employment, printing business; 21746
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/4/27 (from Pottstown); 21747
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/1 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school lessons; 21748
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/3, Note: missing page(s); 21749
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: business, difficulties of running a drug store; 21750
[Whitaker], Ellen to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/7 (from Mt. Pleasant); Topics include: family news; 21751
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/13 (from Pottstown); 21752
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/5/30 (from Hill School); Topics include: school; 21753
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1868/6/4 (from Hill School); Topics include: school; 21754
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1869/4/14 (from Pottstown); Topics include: school; 21755
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1869/6/16 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: store goods; 21756
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1869/10/27 (from Philadelphia); 21757
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1870/7 (from Mont Clare); 21758
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1870/8/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: homes for sale in Philadelphia; 21759
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1870/11/1 (from Schuylkill); Topics include: mentions the wedding of Samuel W. Pennypacker; 21760
membership certification to M.E. Church in Phoenixville for Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1870/12/19; 21761
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/1/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: “sudden death”; 21762
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/4/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: “father’s papers”; 21763
Pennypacker, Virginia Earl (Broomall) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/4/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: living arrangements, social life, activities of Samuel W. Pennypacker; 21764
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/7/7 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: visiting relatives; 21765
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1877/7 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: visiting relatives; 21766
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/8/26 (from Richmond, VA); Topics include: visiting Civil War battlefields, travel in Virginia; 21767
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1871/12/29 (from Schuylkill); Topics include: family news; 21768
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Ann Maria Pennypacker, 1872; 21769
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/6/16 (from Germantown); Topics include: family news; 21770
Pennypacker, Elijah F. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1872/11/26 (from Phoenixville); Topics include: saw mill property of Joseph Whitaker; 21771
Whitaker, Mary B. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1872/12/1 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: family news; 21772
Whitaker, Kate P. to “Aunt Maria”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1972/12/2 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; 21773
Jos. Whitaker & Co. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/4/13 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: financial matter; 21774
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/5/5 (from Schuylkill); 21775
Pennypacker, Mary A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/5/11; 21776
Whitaker, Nellie R. to “auntie”, 1873/6/1 (from Mt. Pleasant); Topics include: family news; 21777
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/7/7 (from Germantown); Note: Includes explanatory note by Isaac R. Pennypacker; 21778
Christman, Isabel to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/8/4 (from Philadelphia); Note: Includes explanatory note by Isaac R. Pennypacker; 21779
Roberts. Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/8/18; Topics include: family news; 21780
Whitaker, Nellie R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/8/26 (from Oak Spring); Topics include: family news; 21781
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/11/10 (from Mount Pleasant); Topics include: family news, description of Mount Pleasant; 21782
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1873/12 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: measles; 21783
Boyle, Rebecca E. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/1/12 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: requested donation for a pastor; 21784
Thompson, Grace W. to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1874/1/14 (from Philadelphia); 21785
Whitaker, Mary E. to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1874/2/6 (from Mount Holly); 21786
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/6/23 (Mont Clare); Topics include: planning a trip to Havre De Grace; 21787
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/1 (from Williamsport, PA); 21788
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/2 (from Williamsport, PA); Topics include: detailed description of a train trip from Philadelphia to Williamsport, description of Williamsport; 21789
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/5 (from Williamsport, PA); Topics include: “county people” in Renovo PA, thoughts about Williamsport; 21790
Thompson, Anna to “Aunt Maria” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1874/7/9 (from Mont Clare); 21791
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/13 (from Watkins Glen, NY); Topics include: impression of the summer resort in Watkins Glen; 21792
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/15 (from Waverly, NY); Topics include: activities while on vacation; 21793
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/23 (from Wilkes Barre, PA); Topics include: visiting relatives, leisure; 21794
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/7/28 (from Bethlehem); 21795
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: mother’s trip to Cape May NJ, summer activities; 21796
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: family news, summer activities; 21797
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/7 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); Topics include: family news; 21798
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: family news, leisure activities; 21799
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: picnic, daily activities; 21800
Pennypacker, Virginia Earl (Broomall) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/9 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: family news; 21801
Pennypacker, Isaac to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/12 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: family news, news from the city; 21802
Pennypacker, Henry Clay to Ann Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/19 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); Topics include: leisure activity; 21803
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/8/28 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); Topics include: social activity, Maryland society, croquet; 21804
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874/10/15 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: news from the city; 21805
Whitaker, Mary W. to Anna Maria Whitaker, 1874/10/27 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); Topics include: apple preservation; 21806
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1874 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: news from the city, daily activity; 21807
Pennypacker, James to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1875/7/20 (from Mount Pleasant, MD); Topics include: daily activity; 21808
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1875/8/7 (from Milford, PA); [Note: page missing?]; Topics include: description of activities while on vacation; 21809
Pennypacker, Virginia Earl (Broomall) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1875/8/28, (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: arrival at Phoenixville; 21810
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1875/11/4 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matters; 21811
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1875/11/16 (from Mont Clare); 21812
Whitaker, Mary E. to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1875/10/1 (from Wesleyan College); 21813
Thompson, Mattie to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1876/6/28 (from Mont Clare); 21814
Whitaker, Mary Jane Coffin to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1876/9/26 (from Bethlehem); 21815
Thompson, Mattie to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1880/3/14 (from Clifton Springs); Topics include: death of Samuel and Virginia Pennypacker’s baby; 21816
Whitaker, J. Elizabeth to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1889/3/22; Topics include: reflections on life; 21817
Whitaker, George L. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1890/12/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: death of George P. Whitaker; 21818
death notice for George P. Whitaker, 1890; 21819
Chew, James W., 1892/6/2 (from Havre de Grace); Topics include: death of cousin Mary Whitaker; 21820
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1896/9/2 (from Ganoga Lake, PA); Topics include: daily activities while on vacation; 21821
Byers, M. Jeanette to “G.Mother Pennypacker”, 1896/9/15 (from Philadelphia); Note: notation reads, “writer of the above not a relative – apparently a nurse”; Topics include: fruit basket; 21822
Acton, Elizabeth Jones to “Mr. Pennypacker”, 1897/2/25 (from Salem, NJ); Topics include: photographs; 21823
Pennypacker, Grace (Coolidge) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/4/23 (from Haddonfield, NJ); Note: wife of James Pennypacker; Topics include: housekeeping, trouble with a domestic; 21824
Whitaker, Mary E. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/6/24 (from Havre De Grace); 21825
Pennypacker, Anna Maria Whitaker to “grandma” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1897/7/12 (from S.S. Westernland); Topics include: detailed description of a boat trip, accommodations onboard ship; 21826
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/7/15 (from S.S. Westernland); Topics include: description of fellow travelers, boat trip; 21827
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/7/19 (from Amsterdam); Topics include: daily activities while in Europe; 21828
Pennypacker, Anna Maria Whitaker to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/7/26 (from Amsterdam); Topics include: activities while in Antwerp, impression of the Dutch people; 21829
Pennypacker, Virginia Earl (Broomall) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/7/27 (from Middlebourne, WV); Topics include: mill in Wheeling, WV, mentions natural gas boiler; 21830
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/8/4 (from Amsterdam); Topics include: health of daughter Josephine; description of Holland; 21831
Pennypacker, Anna Maria Whitaker to Anna Maria Pennypacker (from Amsterdam); Topics include: activities while traveling in Europe, boating on canals in Holland; 21832
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/8/8 (from The Hague); Topics include: description of travel in Europe, description of Rembrandt paintings in an art museum; 21833
Pennypacker, Anna Maria Whitaker to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897 (London, England); Topics include: travel in Europe, Westminster Abby, health of sister Josephine; 21834
Pennypacker, Charlotte (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/9/1 (London, England); Topics include: detailed description of activity while in England, complaints about England; 21835
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/9/20 (London, England); Topics include: list of places visited in England, details of activities in London; 21836
Pennypacker, Charlotte (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/10/26 (Mount Holly, NJ); Topics include: family news; 21837
Shreve, J. Elizabeth (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/12/3; 21838
Shreve, J. Elizabeth (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1897/12/31 (Mount Holly, NJ); Topics include: health, Christmas; 21839
Pennypacker, Sarah to “Aunt Maria”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1898/1/21; Topics include: family news; 21840
Pennypacker, Grace Coolidge to “Grandma”, 1898/2/6 (Haddonfield, NJ); Note: daughter of James Pennypacker; Topics include: birthday activities with her cousin; 21841
[unknown author] to “Aunt Maria”, 1898/3/6 (Palm Beach, FL); 21842
Coolidge, Anna C. to “Grandma”, 1878/3/23 (Haddonfield, NJ); Topics include: changing of the seasons; 21843
Acton, Sarah J. to “friend”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1898/6/28 (Salem, NJ); Topics include: old school friends; 21844
Acton, Sarah J. to “friend”[Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1898/8/5 (Salem, NJ); 21845
Shreve, J. Elizabeth (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1898/8/20; Topics include: health; 21846
Pennypacker, Anna Maria Whitaker to “grandma” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1898/8/29; Topics include: reading Longfellow and Hawthorne, visiting New England; 21847
Pennypacker, J.R. Whitaker to “grandma” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], 1898/12/12; 21848
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [1899/2/16] (Biltmore, Asheville, NC); Topics include: “Vanderbilt’s palace” at Biltmore; 21849
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [1899/2/29] (Lancaster, PA); Topics include: moving into a new home; 21850
Pennypacker, Sue to “aunt” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], [?/3/17] (Great Meadows); Topics include: fair in Baltimore for the Civil War soldiers; 21851
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/3/24] (Mont Clare); Topics include: anecdotes about his brother Isaac, family news; 21852
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/4/21] (Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; 21853
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/4/26] (Hill School); 21854
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/5/25] (Lebanon); 21855
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/6/7] (Lebanon); 21856
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/6/29] (Lancaster); Topics include: hiring of a “colored woman”; 21857
[unknown author] to “Dr. Pennypacker’s Ladies”, [?/7/20]; 21858
“Isabel” to “Mrs. P.[ennypacker]”, [?/8/5] (Coventry); 21859
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/8/10]; 21860
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/8/12] (Harrisburg); Topics include: camp meeting at Halifax; 21861
Chrisman, J.W. to “dear friend” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], [?/8/20] (Reading); 21862
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. Pennypacker”, [?/8/21] (Brandywine Manor); 21863
Wilson, Jane T. to “Miss Whitaker”, [?/8/24]; 21864
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/3] (Unionville, PA); Topics include: travel in Chester County; 21865
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/6] (Lancaster, PA); Topics include: description of and activity in Lancaster; 21866
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/6] (Pottstown, PA); Topics include: living conditions at school; 21867
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/7] (Pottstown, PA); Topics include: living arrangements at school; 21868
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/20] (Pottstown, PA); Topics include: school; 21869
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/9/21] (Pottstown, PA); 21870
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/10/18] (Pottstown, PA); 21871
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/10/22] (Lancaster, PA); 21872
[illegible], Anna to “Mrs. Pennypacker, [?/11/13] (Philadelphia); 21873
Pennypacker, Clara K. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/11/22] (Moore Hall); 21874
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?/12/18] (Harrisburg); 21875
Free, Sue P. to “auntie”, [?/12/24] (Spring City, PA); 21876
Pennypacker, Charlotte to “grandma” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], [?]; 21877
“Mattie” to “aunt”, [?] (Harrisburg); 21878
Chrisman, J.W. to “Mrs. P.[ennypacker], [?]; 21879
Roberts, Elizabeth A. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?]; 21880
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?] (from West Philadelphia); 21881
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?] (from West Philadelphia); 21882
Whitaker, M.J.C. to “sister”, [?] (from Bethlehem); 21883
Whitaker, M.J.C. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?]; 21884
Whitaker, Nellie to “auntie” [Anna Maria Pennypacker], [early 1870s] [from Mount Pleasant, MD]; 21885
Pennypacker, Joseph R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?]; Topics include: new store and purchases; 21886
Pennypacker, Gertrude (Whitaker) to “Mrs. Pennypacker”, [?]; 21887
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to Anna Maria Pennypacker, [?], Note: page(s) missing; 21888
“Martha” to [aunt], [189?], (from Palm Beach, FL); Note: page(s) missing; Topics include: description of Nassau; 21889
Bell, Anna E. to Mrs. Pennypacker, [?], Note: includes copied extracts from a Japanese newspaper; Topics include: travel in Japan; 21890
essay by James L. Pennypacker, “Country Life”; 21891
essay by James L. Pennypacker, “The Earth”; 21892
essay by James L. Pennypacker, “History of a Brass Button”; 21893
essay by James L. Pennypacker, “Butterflies”; 21894
essay by Anna Maria Pennypacker, “How to Knit Stockings”; 21895
poem by [I.A.P.], “Josephine”; 21896
patent petition materials of Joseph Whitaker for a nail packing machine, submitted to the Pennsylvania Commission on Patents, 1843/10/11; 21897-21900
itemized expense sheet, [unknown author]; 21901
“memorandum of sundries, bonds and bank stocks”, [unknown author]; 21902
itemized expense sheet, [unknown author]; 21903
itemized expense sheet, [unknown author]; 21904
invitation, wedding of W. Howard Wiggins and Lizzie Roberts (Germantown, PA); 1872; 21905
invitation, wedding of Andrew W. Whitaker and Miss Yerkes (Phoenixville, PA); 1872; 21906
invitation, wedding of Charles R. Roberts and Janie S. Pearson (Philadelphia); 1873; 21907-21909
invitation, wedding of Ferdinand V. Hoyt and Annie T. Roberts (Germantown); 1873; 21910
invitation, wedding of Enoch T. Roberts and Helen Woods (Germantown, PA); 1874; 21911
invitation, wedding of Annie Carman and Howard Riegner (Philadelphia); 1874; 21912
invitation, wedding of John Henry Matthews and Emma Frances Johnson (Ashley, PA); 1875; 21913
announcement, marriage of William R. Fisher and Mary A.E. Wager (New York); 1876; 21914
invitation, for receptions hosted by Miss Scull and Miss Pindells (Philadelphia); 1874; 21915-21917
announcement, Commencement of the Wesleyan Female College (Wilmington, DE); 1875; 21918
announcement, Commencement of Polytechnic College (Philadelphia); 1875; 21919
announcement, Commencement of Wesleyan Female College (Wilmington, DE); 1876; 21920
calling cards; 21921
calling cards; 21922
calling cards; 21923
calling cards; 21924
clipping, death of Sarah Whitaker, n.d.; 21925
tickets, 91925
train tickets, Second and Third St. Passenger Railway Company, Philadelphia, 1877, 1880; 21926
Saucon Iron Company to Anna Maria Pennypacker, 1872/12/11 (Hellertown, PA); Topics include: resolution regarding dividends; 21927
Correspondence, Letters Whitaker Family, 1832-1934, Bound volume
(includes letter numbers 21928 to 22066)
Whitaker, Joseph R. to Samuel W. Pennypacker, [1870], Note: Letter is copied. Author identified as publisher of Whitaker Almanac, London; Topics include: genealogy on the Whitaker family; 21928
Fackenthal, B.F. to “Mr. Pennypacker”, 1933/2/10 (Riegelsville, PA); Topics include: history of use and alterations of the Whitaker house at the Durham Iron Works; 21929
Fackenthal, B.F. to “Mr. Pennypacker”, 1933/2/4 (from Riegelsville, PA); Topics include: explanation of an attached sketch of Durham Iron Works and surrounding area, George W. Whitaker, Joseph R. Whitaker; 21929A
photograph, “Durham Iron Works”, Note: includes explanatory note handwritten on back; 21929B
photograph, “Joseph Whitaker”; 21930
photograph, “George W. Whitaker”; 21931
Whitaker, Joseph to Elijah F. Pennypacker, 1832/1/22 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: charter for “coke iron company”; 21932
Whitaker, Joseph to Elijah F. Pennypacker, 1832/1/23 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: [Nullification Crisis in South Carolina]; 21933
Updegrove, James to Joseph Whitaker, 1834/12/10 (from Cecil County, MD); Topics include: death of his wife; 21934
Whitaker, James A. to Joseph Whitaker, 1835/2/20; Topics include: reflections on life; 21935
Whitaker, James A. to Samuel A. Whitaker, 1836/3/6 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: iron business; 21936
Whitaker, Samuel A. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1838/2/16 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: bank notes, news from home; 21937
Whitaker, Samuel A. to “brother”, 1839/3/5 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: Principio Furnace; 21938
Whitaker, William P.C. to “uncle”, 1839/3/23 (from Elk Iron Works, MD); Topics include: family news; 21939
Whitaker, Samuel A. to “brother”, 1839/4/26 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: wedding of Anna Maria Whitaker and Isaac Pennypacker; 21940
Whitaker, William P.C. to “uncle”, 1839/12/28 (from Elk Iron Works, MD); Topics include: Aunt [Zillah] and her six young children; 21941
Whitaker, Gertrude K. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1840/2/16 (from Phoenixville); Topics include: family news; 21942
Whitaker, Anna Maria to J. Elizabeth Whitaker and Gertrude K. Whitaker, 1840/4/20 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: family news; 21943
Whitaker, Elizabeth to William P.C. Whitaker, 1840/6/21 (from Kimberton, PA); Topics include: school; 21944
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1840/11/6 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: family news; 21945
Whitaker, Gertrude K. to “brother”, 1840 (from Kimberton, NJ); Topics include: school, disciplinary actions at school; 21946
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1841/3/16 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: protested bank notes; 21947
Matlack, Sarah E. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1841/6/1; 21948
Matlack, Sarah E. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1841/6/3 [from West Chester, PA]; Topics include: arrangements for a meeting; 21949
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1841/6/4 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: business; 21950
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1841/10/30 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: health of family; 21951
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1841/10/25 (from Phoenixville, PA); 21952
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1841/10/25 (from Principio Furnace, MD); Topics include: iron business; 21953
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1842/1/26 (from Principio Furnace, MD); Topics include: deaths in Phoenixville, health of Sarah Pennypacker; 21954
Garrett, Thomas to William P.C. Whitaker, 1842/4/1 (from Wilmington, DE); Topics include: money lending, business; 21955
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1843/10/10 (postmark Philadephia, PA); Topics include: family news; 21956
[author unknown] to “mother”, [?] (from Phoenixville, PA); 21957
Grayson, Richard to William P.C. Whitaker, 1850/5/25 (from Elkton); Topics include: financial matters; 21958
[author unknown] to Alexander Evans, 1850/11/5 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matters, debt; 21959A
Evans, Alexander to “sir”, 1850/12/9; Topics include: financial matter; 21960
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1851/3/18 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Note: Includes description of James A. Pennypacker by Isaac R. Pennypacker; Topics include: managing iron company, iron business; 21960B
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1851/3/26 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Note: Includes description of William P.C. Pennypacker’s role in the family business; Topics include: iron business; 21961
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1851/5/11 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: business and family news; 21962
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1851/6/14 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: business and family news; 21963
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1851/7/16 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: business; 21964
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1851/7/25 (from Durham Iron Works); Topics include: business and family news; 21965
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1851/9/12 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: family health; 21966
Whitaker, William P.C. to “uncle”, 1851/11/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: property transfer; 21967
Whitaker, Grace to “Mr. Whitaker”, 1852/1/3 (from Baltimore); Topics include: inability to travel; 21968
[illegible] to William P.C. Pennypacker, 1852/6/21 (from Havre De Grace); Topics include: business; 21969
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1852/9/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: iron business; 21970
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1852/9/28 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: sale of the Havre De Grace iron business; 21971
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1852/10/21 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: managing iron business; 21972
Paca, William B. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1853/1/13 (postmark: Havre De Grace); 21973
Sheaff, J.A. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1853/6/27 (from Huntingdon); Topics include: bidding on railroad work, land purchase, engineering jobs; 21974
Sheaff, J.A. to “sir” [William P.C. Whitaker], 1853/7/20 (from Lancaster); Topics include: tombstone for his wife and instructions for its placement, business prospects; 21975
Whitaker, Grace to “dear children”, 1853/8/12 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; 21976
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1853/11/13 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: loneliness, social life of his domestics, iron business; 21977
Anderson, A. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1853/11/15 (from Port Deposit); 21978
Sheaff, J.A. to “Dear sir” [William P.C. Whitaker], 1853/12/5 (from Lancaster, PA); Topics include: land surveys in Maryland, railroad building, exhibition in New York; 21979
Anderson, A. to [illiegible], 1853/12/28 (from Port Deposit, MD); 21980
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1854/2/12 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: investment; 21981
Whitaker, George to “brother”, 1854/6/3 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: marriage to Mary J. Coffin; 21982
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1854/6/4 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: description of property; 21983
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1854/6/20 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: land purchase; 21984
Archer, Henry to William P.C. Whitaker, 1854/7/3 [illegible]; Topics include: details of a deed; rights as property owner; 21985
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1854/9/4 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topic include: investment; 21986
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1854/9/18 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); 21987
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1854/12/14 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: property sale; 21988
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1855/1/10 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: business; 21989
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1855/1/13 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: iron business; 21990
McHenry, Ramsay to William P.C. Whitaker, 1855/5/16 (from Havre de Grace, MD); 21991
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1855/8/7 (from Durham Iron Works, PA); 21992
Pennypacker, Isaac A. to J. Elizabeth Whitaker, 1855/9/4 (from Philadelphia); Note: Includes newspaper clipping; Topics include: yellow fever in Virginia, death of two doctors, his children; 21993
Switzer, I.R. to “dear sir”, 1855/10/31 (from Carroll County, IL); Note: Margin note reads “The writer of the above were farmers at Mt. Pleasant for the Whitakers; Topics include: timber land, farming, western lands; 21994
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1855/11/4 (Durham Iron Works, PA); Topics include: iron business; 21995
Whitaker, Joseph R. to J. Elizabeth Whitaker, 1856/1/18 (Philadelphia); 21996
Whitaker, Grace to J. Elizabeth Whitaker, 1856/1/20 (Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; 21997
Whitaker, Gertrude K. to J. Elizabeth Whitaker, 1856/1/20 (Mont Clare); 21997
McHenry, Sophia to M. Whitaker, 1856/5/29 (Emmorton, MD); Topics include: attempt to establish a female seminary; 21998
Taylor, R.A. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1856/6/10 (Havre de Grace, MD); Topics include: financial matter; 21999
Potts, James to “sir”, 1856/6/22 (Baltimore); Topics include: court claim; 22000
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1857/1/29 (Philadelphia); Topics include: business; 22000a
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1858/2/14 (Wheeling); Topics include: iron business; 22001
McHenry, Ramsay to “sir”, 1858/3/15 (Monmouth Farm); Topics include: court claim regarding the heirs of Colonel Ramsay, 22002
Whitaker, George to Willaim P.C. Whitaker, 1859/8/9 (Principio, MD); 22003
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1859/10/20 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: farming; 22004
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1859/10/17 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: farming; 22005
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1859/11/1 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: farm at Mount Pleasant; 22006
Whitaker, I & G.P. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1859/12/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: request for information regarding the Broad Creek operations, 22007
Taylor, R.A. and James Hopper to F.S. Corcoran, 1861/3/11 (from Havre de Grace); Topics include: character reference for William P.C. Whitaker; 22008
Whitaker, Grace to “granddaughter”, 1862 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; going to war [Civil War]; 22009
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1863/7/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: Civil War; 22010
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1863/9/2 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: mentions a substitute hired for Samuel W. Pennypacker [Civil War]; 22011
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1863/9/24 (from Philadelphia); 22012
Whitaker, Joseph to “son”, 1865/7/20 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: farming; land prices in lieu of slavery ending; 22013
Whitaker, Samuel to Joseph Whitaker, 1865/4/24 (from Reading); Topics include: death in the family; 22014
Whitaker, Grace to “grandchildren”, 1865/4/26 (from Mont Clare); Topics include: family news; 22015
Envelope; 22016
Whitaker, Grace to “children”, 1865 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: health, women; 22016
“grandmother” to “granddaughter”, 1865/10/17 (from Oak Spring); Note: marginalia reads Eleanor Hall Ramsay; Topics include: health, weddings; 22017
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1866/1/14 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: prospects of selling a farm in Maryland; 22018
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Whitaker, 1864/9/26 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: prices of crops; 21019
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1866/10/11 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: health, father’s fall; 22020
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Pennypacker, 1868/1/1 (from Mont Clare, PA); 22021
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Pennypacker, 1868/7/21 (from Mont Clare, PA); 22022
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Pennypacker, 1869/12/14 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: price of posts and rails; 22023
Whitaker, Joseph to William P.C. Pennypacker, 1869/12/22 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: Christmas gift; 22024
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1870/12/25 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: business; 22025
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1871/1/12 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: business, 22026
Thompson, Charles Impey to William P.C. Whitaker, 1871/7/5 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: family news, financial matters; 22027
Thompson, Charles Impey to William P.C. Whitaker, 1871/7/10 (from Mont Clare, PA); 22028
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1871/9/9 (from Philadelphia); 22029
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1875/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matter, 22030
Pennypacker, Samuel W. to “uncle”[William P.C. Whitaker], 1875/7/13 (from Philadelphia); 22031
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1875/9/14 (from Philadelphia); Note: includes bill and receipt for Samuel and William Whitaker’s schooling dated 1827; 22032-22033
financial statement for the estate of Sarah A. Whitaker, compiled by Samuel W. Pennypacker, [1875]; 22034
Whitaker, Joseph R. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1876; Note: includes bill; 22035
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1876/11/6 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: visit to “newly found relatives”; 22036
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1879/7/2 (from Philadelphia); 22037
Lee, Otto S. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1879/12/17 (from Bel Air, MD); Topics include: bill collection; 22038
Hopkins, J. Thomas C. to William P.C. Whitaker, 1879/12/24 (from Bel Air, MD); Topics include: financial matter; 22039
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1883/1/1 (from Dover); 22040
Whitaker, Joseph R. to “brother”, 1883/7/9 (from Dover); Topics include: financial matter, farming; 22041
Whitaker, George P. to “nephew”, 1874/3/2 (from Principio Firnace, MD); Topics include: dispute over land donated for a public school house; 22042
Brand, W.F. to “cousin”, n.d. (from Emmonton, MD); Topics include: letter of thanks; 22043
Brand, S. McHenry to “Ellen and Grace”, 1904/9/9 (from Emmonton, MD); Topics include: death of Sally Williams; 22044
Brand, W.F. to “cousin”, 1904/10/18 (from Emmonton, MD); 22045
Brand, S. McHenry to Grace, 1905/12/25 (from Emmonton, MD); Topics include: family news and health, 22046
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1908/4/11 (Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: recollections of her school days at Kimberton in the 1830s, loss of family property referred to as Mount Pleasant; 22047
financial statement related to the last will and testament of Joseph Whitaker, prepared by Joseph R. Whitaker, [1875]; 22048
financial statement for the estate of Sarah A. Whitaker, prepared by Samuel W, Pennypacker, [1874], 22049
Whitaker, J. Elizabeth to “nephew”, n.d.; Topics include: dam at Mt. Holly, NJ, 22050
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1912/4/16 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: comments about Isaac R. Pennypacker’s book, 22051
Thompson, J.W. to (“cousin”) Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1914/3/11 (from Mont Clare, PA); 22052
Thompson, Gertrude (Whitaker) to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1913/4/4 (from Mont Clare, PA); Topics include: reminiscences, Dr. Jacob Pennypacker, her wedding; 22053
Thompson, J.W. to (“cousin”) Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1914/4/20 (from Philadelphia, PA); Topics include: plans to meet, family history; 22054
Whitaker, Albert C. to (“cousin”) Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1916/4/3 (from Principio Furnace, MD); Topics include: death of George P. Whitaker’s widow; 22055
Whitaker, Albert C. to (“cousin”) Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1918/10/29 (from Wheeling, WV); Topics include: request for family history regarding the Whitaker genealogy; 22056
Pennypacker, Sarah C. to (“cousin”) Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1934/10/15 (from Germantown, PA); Topics include: thoughts on history, writings of Isaac R. Pennypacker; 22057
Pennypacker, Isaac R. to “Ellen”, 1916/5/10 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: description of a home; 22058
Lee, Mary E. to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1919/4/15; Topics include: story of a fugitive rebel in Maryland during the Civil War, family history, Daughters of the American Revolution; 22059
Pennypacker, Charlotte (Whitaker) to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1918 (from Scranton); Topics include: family news, club women and the War [World War I]; 22060
Fackenthal, B.F. to B.F. Fackenthal Jr., 1887/8/3 (from Easton, PA); Note: Typed copy of original. Context of the letter appears in the heading as follows, “On receiving a copy of the manuscript of the chapter in Durham Township to be published in Battle’s History of Buck’s County”; Topics include: historical research, profits at Durham in the 1850s, iron business, comments on recipient’s manuscript, Thomas Long, Benjamin Riegel; 22061
Pennypacker, Charlotte Ellen to “grandfather”, 1934/10/20 (from Smith College, Northampton, MA); Topics include: leisure, school; 22062
Whitaker, Ellen Ramsay to “Lottie” [Charlotte (Whitaker) Pennypacker], 1927; Topics include: family news; 22063
Pennypacker, James A. to “Uncle Isaac”[Isaac A. Pennypacker], 1934/10/14 (Cranford, NJ); Topics include: comment on Isaac Pennypaker’s address titled “Fort Beversrode and Beyond”, lobbying activity; 22064
Whitaker, Joseph Clifford to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1918/5/25 (from Phoenixville, PA); Topics include: recollections of life at the Hill School in Pottstown; 22065
Arndt, John S. to Isaac R. Pennypacker, 1930/1/7 (from Philadelphia); Topics include: financial matter; 22066
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