Scope and Content of Collection
The Joseph Raynes papers consist of nine letters sent between 1831 and 1843 by Joseph Raynes to his family in Bonsall, in Derbyshire, England, and one letter written by his cousin, Jane Cliff, to his sister, Harriett Raynes in 1849. Subjects covered in the correspondence include news of friends, family and deaths; an Atlantic sea voyage; the Chesapeake Bay; Baltimore; the failure of the Bank of Maryland; and the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Cincinnati.