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Archival Collections Portal > Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections > Finding Aid: Morgan J. Rhees
Papers
Morgan J. Rhees
Papers,
1794-1968.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Morgan J. Rhees papers; Box and
Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Summary Information
At a Glance
| Call No.: | MS#1066 |
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| Bib ID: | 4079832 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | Rhees, Morgan J. (Morgan John), 1760-1804. |
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| Title: | Morgan J. Rhees
Papers,
1794-1968.
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| Physical description: | 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
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| Language(s): | Material is primarily in English with some Welsh.
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| Access: |
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
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Scope and Content
The collection includes two diaries of his American tour (one is made up of his rough
travel notes, the other is in edited form for circulation), a memorial volume of
manuscripts about his wife (Ann Loxley Rhees) prepared by his daughter Eliza (Mrs.
Nicholas Murray), and 1851 passport of Nicholas Murray, a letter of Thomas Chalmers
Murray to his sister Mary Jones Murray Butler (the mother of Nicholas Murray Butler,
President of Columbia University), correspondence between Welsh historian Gwyn A.
Williams and collection donor Mary Butler Brown, an essay entitled "Morgan John Rhees
and Beula" by Gwyn A. Williams, Ann Loxley Rhees's valedictory oration on graduation
from Philadelphia's Ladies Academy, an address on female education ca. 1789, family
obituary clippings, poems, misc. items, and a photograph of Ann Loxley Rhees. An edited
version of substantial sections of the diaries of M.J. Rhees was published in John
Thomas Griffith's 1910 biography and miscellany of Rhees and his family, a copy of which
is included in this collection. An edited version of a previously unpublished section of
the diary, from May 2nd to July 9th 1795, was published in Northwest Ohio History (vol.
80, no. 2), but it is an unreliable transcription containing many inaccuracies,
according to Dr E. Wyn James of Cardiff University, who is working on a new edition of
the M.J. Rhees diaries.
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RBML
Access Restrictions
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of
the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The
responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Morgan J. Rhees papers; Box and
Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and
Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University
Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Diaries & papers Cataloged 06/28/94 HR
Finding aid written 01/05/2011 Andrew Edwards, Columbia University School of General
Studies.
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion
January 12, 2011
Finding aid written in English.
2011-01-12
xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz
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The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows.
Genre/FormSubjects| Heading | CUL Archives:
Portal | CUL Collections:
CLIO | Nat'l / Int'l Archives:
ArchiveGRID |
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| Abolitionists--United States. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| African Americans--History--To 1863. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Antislavery movements--United States. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Baptists--Clergy--United States. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Butler, Mary Jones Murray, 1838-1912. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Clergy. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft),
1822-1907. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Griffith, John Thomas, 1845-1917. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Kinney, William B. (William Burnet), 1799-1880. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Murray, Eliza Jones Rhees, ca.1803-1871. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Murray, Nicholas, 1802-1861. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Murray, Thomas Chalmers, 1850?-1879. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Presbyterians--Clergy--New Jersey. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Republicanism--United States--History--18th
century. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Rhees, Ann Loxley, 1775-1849. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Rhees, B. Rush (Benjamin Rush), 1798-1834. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Rhees, Morgan J. (Morgan John), 1760-1804. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Rhees, William Jones, 1830-1907. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Slavery--South Carolina--History--18th century. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Slaves--Religious life--Georgia. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Slaves--Religious life--South Carolina. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Welsh Americans. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Williams, Gwyn A. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Return to top History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Abolitionist, Welsh republican radical, publisher, Baptist
minister, pioneer and adventurer Morgan J. Rhees fled to the United States in 1794 faced
with arrest for his political work in Wales. Between 1793 and 1794 Rhees published
Cylchgrawn Cynmraeg,
the first political magazine in
the Welsh language. Rhees traveled throughout the United States and its western
territories on horseback 1794-1795, preaching emancipation and republican ideals while
searching for a suitable settlement for Welsh immigrants. In 1797 he and his wife Ann
Loxley Rhees founded the town of Beula in western Pennsylvania with land purchased from
Benjamin Rush. The settlement was a failure; the land was ceded back to Rush in 1802.
Rhees remained active in republican politics and encouraged Welsh emigration. Rhees was
the great grandfather of Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University.
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