 While working at the Navy Office, Morris became close friends with fellow clerk Wil(l)iam Parry, who was also from Anglesey and would become secretary to the Cymmrodorion Society in 1755.Parry and Morris worked closely together in the Department of Foreign Accounts.Richard's eldest brother, Lewis Morris, died in 1765, and in the following year Richard Morris made his only visit home, when he called on his brother Lewis's widow at Penbryn.