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Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott asks her cousins for news and relays some of her own about family and friends, especially Caroline Chase Stratton Wood. Mott discusses Caroline's unhappy marriage and her divorce, her disagreements with her husband Charles P. Wood over parenting, and public sentiment about the case. Also discusses the death of Caroline's mother Ruth Bunker Chase. Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Personal correspondence; Confidential...

Scope and Contents 3 pages. Fragment. Spent time with Mrs. Child, most likely Lydia Maria Child, who shared her early experiences in the antislavery movement in order to inspire and prepare young abolitionists. Discusses Wendell Phillips and describes her reaction to one of his speeches. Mentions the Garrison family.Subjects: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Women abolitionistsRelevant...

Scope and Contents 8 pages. Fragment, perhaps to Mott's sister Martha Coffin Wright. Date inferred. Mott discusses the funeral of her cousin Ruth Bunker Chase, her travel plans for the New York State Woman's Rights Convention in Albany, grief over a death of a relative, and other news of friends and family. She also discusses a sermon by Rachel Moore, notions of starting a Hicksite college, and essays on theology recently published in "The Atlantic."Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Congresses...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Mott discusses the recent death of her cousin Ruth Bunker Chase, Chase's will, and other recent news about friends and family, including the education of some of her younger relatives. She also talks about current politics, including recent pieces by William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, William Seward, and Maria Weston Chapman; whether her health will allow her to attend the approaching New York State Woman's Rights Convention in Albany; her esteem for the theology of Frederick...

Scope and Contents 3 pages. In addition to discussing recent news of family and friends, Mott talks briefly about secession, quotes and discusses a relative's remarks in favor of compensated emancipation, gives her opinions of Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address from an antislavery perspective, and quotes some comments on it from "The Bugle" and the "Principia." She also discusses Caroline Stratton's divorce and the illnesses of various children in the family. Written from Roadside."When Lincoln...

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1 page. Brief note stating that he doesn't know the artist that Edward Morris Davis mentioned.

Subjects: Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887

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4 pages. Nathaniel Barney was Lucretia Mott's cousin. He recounts hearing Lucretia speak at an antislavery meeting in New York, acknowledges her invitation to attend her fiftieth wedding anniversary, and discusses news of family and friends.

Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Antislavery movements; Women abolitionists

Relevant locations: Nantucket (Mass.)

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8 pages. Lucretia Mott tells her family in the Delaware Valley about her trip to Nantucket, the island where she was born, and the relatives she saw there, including her aunt with dementia. She also mentions a planned meeting "with the colored people."

Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

Relevant locations: Nantucket (Mass.)