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Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1858 7mo 6

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181934
Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Discusses her opinions on and the participation of several individuals in the women's rights, abolition, and free love reform movements, including Rachel Barker Moore, Susan B. Anthony, William Goodell, Stephen Pearl Andrews, James Miller McKim, Thomas Curtis, William Lloyd Garrison, and Henry Clarke Wright. Mentions a recent court ruling giving fathers more rights than mothers over their children. Recounts the treatment of James Bowers, who was tarred and...
Dates: 1858 7mo 6

Mott, Lucretia to Mott, Lucretia, 1858 8mo 7

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181935
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Written from Roadside. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions stopping by the Anti-Slavery Office. Jacob Heaton asked for her autograph.

Subjects: Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Dates: 1858 8mo 7

Mott, Lucretia to Anna, Roadside, 1858 8mo 13

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181936
Scope and Contents

5 pages. Written from Roadside. Addressed to "Anna" and likely written to her niece Anna Coffin Temple Brown. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Partially written over a printed invitation to a gathering at the home on James Sloan Gibbons to establish a new "Christian Association."

Subjects: Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Dates: 1858 8mo 13

Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1858 8mo 24

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181937
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Written from Roadside. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence.

Subjects: Families; Personal correspondence; Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912; M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Dates: 1858 8mo 24

Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1858 8mo 29

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181938
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Written from Roadside. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Briefly mentions an upcoming Quarterly Meeting and Rachel Wilson Moore's Meeting at Niagara.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Dates: 1858 8mo 29

Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1858 9mo 1

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181939
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Describes the family and friends she interacted with and the meeting she attended while staying in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Discusses the circulation of correspondence.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Quakers

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.); Mount Holly (N.J.)

Dates: 1858 9mo 1

Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1858 9mo 10

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181940
Scope and Contents 8 pages. Written from Roadside. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Discusses the misrepresentation of reform movements in the press. Recounts her attendance at multiple crowded antislavery meetings and the speeches of Rachel Barker, Robert Collyer, and others. Speaks extensively of her nephew Ellis Yarnall and his new wife Margaret Harrison Yarnall. George Combe has recently died. Mentions correspondence from Elizabeth...
Dates: 1858 9mo 10

Mott, Lucretia & Brown, Anna Temple to Wright, Martha, Roadside, 1858 10mo 14

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181941
Scope and Contents 12 pages. Pages 1-11 were written by Lucretia Mott; the letter written by Anna Coffin Temple Brown begins on page 11. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Recounts attending multiple antislavery/general meetings and the participation of Rachel Barker, who "preached powerfully," Robert Collyer, James Miller McKim, and others. Discusses Henry Bleby. Discusses to varying degrees Rachel Barker, Antoinette Brown Blackwell,...
Dates: 1858 10mo 14

Mott, Lucretia to All at Home, Baltimore, 1858 10mo 27

 Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181942
Scope and Contents 4 pages. Last paragraph written by Anna Mott Hopper. Discusses family and friends and references the circulation of correspondence. Describes participating in meetings in Baltimore concerning abolition, saying, "Radical preaching seems to suit the people, and good feeling prevails." Mentions attending a large meeting with African Americans, as well as sermons by Miriam Gover, Joshua Foulke, Ann Weaver, and Louisa Steer. Individuals who also attended meetings included John Needles, Chalkley...
Dates: 1858 10mo 27