Box 2

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Discusses the idea of compensation to the South in exchange for the abolition of slavery. Writes, "We have had some interesting fugitives here lately. How I wish thousands more would escape, and the remainder resolve they would no longer work unpaid."Subjects: Personal correspondence; Families; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Slavery; Fugitive slavesRelevant locations: Philadelphia...

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4 pages. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Has received a letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson inviting her to "his pulpit" and to the Boston Women Regional Meeting. Mentions that Theodore Parker will be attending the Kennett Meeting and an anti-slavery meeting in Philadelphia.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Quakers

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)

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8 pages. Letter written on a printed circular titled "To the Friends of the Cause of Woman," dated January 15th, 1854 and signed by Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and others. Discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends. Discusses Quaker Meetings and mentions planning to meet Theodore Parker and Oliver Johnson on their way to the Kennet Progressive Meeting.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Quakers

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Recounts recent events and news concerning friends and family. Discusses her aunt Lydia P. Mott and Lydia's friend Chloe Allen, who have been staying with them. Theodore Parker came to lecture. Describes in detail the birth of her daughter Elizabeth Cavender's son. Mentions the conclusion of Yearly Meeting, the possibility of her meeting making an address to Southern slaveholders and the "New York Anniversary" where Sumner (likely Senator Charles Sumner) made a speech. Individuals...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Letter from James Mott to Lucretia Mott. Details his journey to New York and meeting with family and friends. Describes the content of the meeting he attended featuring Rachel Hicks and Rachel Rogers. Visited the "anti slavery office." Mentions a proposal being considered for Hicksite and Orthodox Quaker immersion. Encloses a letter from Ellis Yarnall to be sent to his father. Saw off Marianna Mott and her family on the steamer "Baltic." The third page includes additional text...

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4 pages. Discusses the departure of Marianna and Thomas Mott, who have left on the steamer "Baltic" to travel. Describes recent events and news concerning family and friends.

Subjects: Mott, Marianna Pelham, 1825-1872; Mott, Thomas, 1823-1899; Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)

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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.)

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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.)

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;...

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...