Mott, Lucretia to Elizabeth, Roadside, 1879 1mo 23
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Handwritten copy. Written from Roadside. Elizabeth S. Miller was a reformer and women's right activist. Lucretia Mott thanks Miller for her kind letter and gift and says she would be very glad to have a visit from Miller. She mentions that her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton has recently died. She references recent controversy surrounding the Comstock Laws, which prohibited sending obscene material through the mail and were named after their foremost advocate Anthony Comstock. She is glad that Ezra Heywood is free (Heywood was arrested for distributing a pamphlet on marriage reform but was pardoned by President Rutherford B. Hayes) and adds that "Comstock's power ought to be limited or taken away."
Subjects: Stratton, Caroline Chase, -1879; Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915; Heywood, Ezra H. (Ezra Hervey), 1829-1893; Abbot, Francis Ellingwood, 1836-1903
Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)
Dates
- Creation: 1879 1mo 23
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