This portion of the Wright family papers should be used in tandem with Accession 1665 when researching the activities of Samuel G. Wright, as the separation was somewhat random depending upon where packets of papers and volumes were stored at "Merino Hill." However, this portion contains most of the papers of Harrison G. Wright, which were not part of the earlier gifts.

This portion of the Samuel G. Wright papers is fragmentary, and most of the documentation of his business activities will be found in Accession 1665. Many of the correspondents are the same. Substantial coverage is confined to only a few enterprises: the project to supply fuel wood to the Paulus Hook ferry boats, whose proprietors also controlled the turnpike and stagecoach line leading between Jersey City and Newark; the project for a salt works at Lewes, Del., for which David Thacher (1767-1830), an experienced salt-maker from Massachusetts, was agent; and the ledger and receipts for Dover Furnace. The correspondence relating to the operation of Dover Furnace and the disputes arising out of its sale are in Accession 1665, as is almost all of the material relating to Delaware Furnace and Wright's western trade.

This portion does contain some of the volumes in which Samuel G. Wright copied his outgoing letters, although his back-slanted handwriting is very difficult to read. One of the letterbooks was begun by Nathan Dunn (1782-1844), who later assigned his business to Wright in bankruptcy. Dunn, a fellow Philadelphia-West Jersey Quaker, was read out of the Philadelphia Monthly meeting for bankruptcy. He recouped his fortune by going to China in 1818-1832, where he prospered either in spite of or because of Quaker scruples against dealing in opium. Returning to Philadelphia with a huge collection of Chinese art and artifacts, he established the city's famous Chinese Museum. Reading between the lines of both inbound and outbound letters, one can get some sense of the difficulties faced by enterpreneurial personalities in the wakes of the War of 1812, the Panics of 1819 and 1837 and the boom-and-bust cycles of the early 19th century economy.

Some of the correspondence is concerned with family and domestic issues. There are also items dealing with Wright's role in Whig Party politics, and insurance policies on "Merino Hill" and Wright's nearby country store.

The papers relating to the settlement of Samuel G. Wright's estate were collected by his son and executor Harrison Gardiner Wright. Aside from ordinary debts, the most important issues involve his western lands. Wright's Illinois agents included William J. Conkling (1826-1904) a famous lawyer and real estate dealer of Springfield, and Moore, Morton & Company's Illinois Land Agency in Quincy.

Sarah Wright is represented by two small ledgers that antedate her marriage and a "grocery book" from 1918-1823. The latter was also used by her husband to write what appears to be a draft of a political letter to the editor in the 1830s or 1840s.

The papers of Harrison G. Wright are partly domestic and concern the management of "Merino Hill" and family relationships. The largest files deal with the continuing issues of the Illinois and Missouri lands inherited from his father's estate, some of which was handled through the Philadelphia merchant banking house of Thomas Biddle & Co. Among letters from his cousin, Rep. Hendrick B. Wright, is the text of a speech expressing the Northern conservative view that the Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union and not to emancipate the slaves. There is also an insurance policy on "Merino Hill" and an album of sentimental poetry copied by each of his classmates at the Quaker's Burlington Boarding School in 1826 as a memento.

Harry Hall Wright (1881-1956), the great-grandson of Samuel G. Wright, is represented by a notebook covering the genealogy of the earliest American generations of the Wright family.