Box 2
Container
Contains 145 Results:
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1855 6mo 4
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181885
Scope and Contents
6 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Describes interacting with Theodore Parker, who has been attending Quaker Meetings and lecturing. Plans to attend an upcoming antislavery convention in Newtown but says "any dependence on my worn out powers as a speaker, detracts greatly from the pleasure of these occasions."
Subjects: Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860; Personal correspondence
Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Dates:
1855 6mo 4
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1855 7mo 4
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181886
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends, including her return from Auburn to Philadelphia. Talks about a woman named Miss Chapman from Massachusetts who has been struggling to find subscribers for her wreath-making business.
Subjects: Personal correspondence; Travel
Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Dates:
1855 7mo 4
Mott, Lucretia to Children, Philadelphia, 1855 8mo 7
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181887
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Maria Mott Davis and her husband Edward Davis are away visiting family in Nantucket and have left their children with Lucretia. Discusses recent events concerning family and friends. References events surrounding the legal case of Passmore Williamson, a Quaker arrested for taking an African American woman named Jane Johnson and her children away from their master. Morris Hallowell and James Miller McKim protested Williamson's arrest.Subjects: Personal correspondence;...
Dates:
1855 8mo 7
Mott, Lucretia to Lord, Martha, 1855 8mo 13
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181888
Scope and Contents
6 pages. The first three pages are addressed to "Sister" and were probably written by one of Lucretia Mott's daughters; the second portion was written by Lucretia Mott; the third portion was written by Elizabeth Mott Cavender and addressed to her aunt. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions Martha Coffin Wright agreeing to preside over the Woman's Rights Convention in Saratoga. Briefly discusses Rachel Tyson Jackson (1807-1883) and the Sharon Female Boarding...
Dates:
1855 8mo 13
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1855 8mo 14
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181889
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends.
Subjects: Personal correspondence
Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Dates:
1855 8mo 14
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, 1855 9mo 4
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181890
Scope and Contents
10 pages. Apologizes for failing to properly reply to recent correspondence. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Recounts interacting with and news of Joseph Barker. Mentions Dr. Stamm wanting to organize a convention and Quaker Meeting lecturers. Describes in detail the court testimony and protection of freedom seeker Jane Johnson by abolitionists. Has visited Passmore Williamson in prison, who was arrested for his role in Jane Johnson's escape. Discusses the...
Dates:
1855 9mo 4
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1855 9mo 7
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181892
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions the circulation of correspondence. Mentions the imminent return of Ellis Yarnall, the legal case of Passmore Williamson, and the death and funeral of Lucretia's sister-in-law Elizabeth M. Mott (1804-1855). Is forwarding the prospectus for the "Darby School" (the Sharon Female Boarding School), where her niece Ellen Wright may attend. Discusses Lucy Stone, who wrote a letter to James Mott praising Martha Coffin...
Dates:
1855 9mo 7
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, Philadelphia, 1855 9mo 11
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181893
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Talks about the case of Jane Johnson, a fugitive African American woman who abolitionists helped to escape and harbor, and calls the decision of the judges an "abomination." "Indignant" Meetings are being held about the case with speakers such as Rev. Andrew Twonbley Foss (1803-1875) and Samuel Aaron (1800-1865). Her health is preventing her from attending Meetings and accepting an invitation from Anne Warren Weston to...
Dates:
1855 9mo 11
Mott, Lucretia to ?, 1855 9mo 12-13
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181894
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Fragment; pages labeled number 5 and 8. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions the circulation of correspondence, an upcoming anti-slavery meeting, and the revival of the Fair Committee (probably referring to the annual Anti-Slavery Fair of Pennsylvania). Lists multiple newspapers/journals she subscribes to, and she has cleared off hundreds of letters and pamphlets from her desk. Discusses the death and funeral arrangements of her sister-in-law...
Dates:
1855 9mo 12-13
Mott, Lucretia to ?, Philadelphia, 1855 9mo 17
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: A00181895
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Probably to her sister Martha Coffin Wright. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Attended an antislavery meeting where she heard Mary Grew's "excellent" letter to Passmore Williamson listing the resolutions that they had adopted. Describes the birth of Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord's daughter Ellen Lord De Schweinitz (1855-1897). Briefly discusses the schooling of her niece Ellen Wright, who may attend the "Darby...
Dates:
1855 9mo 17
