Box 3

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott gives news of friends and family. She briefly mentions attending a lecture by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. She briefly discusses Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and "Aaron P," as well as fundraising for an orphanage in New Orleans.Subjects: Fund raising; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.) Includes letter from Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, to Mott,...

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Mary Ann Wistar Chase was the daughter-in-law of Lucretia Mott's cousin Ruth Bunker Chase. Mott responds to Chase's request for Quaker prayers and discusses various news of friends and family.

Subjects: Quakers; Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

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4 pages. Most of the letter consists of William Lloyd Garrison's praise for Lucretia Mott. Garrison also discusses death, his and Mott's health, Mott's upcoming wedding anniversary, and his plans to travel to Europe in the near future. In addition, he thanks Mott for helping abolitionist George Thompson.

Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Death--Religious aspects; Thompson, George, 1804-1878

Relevant locations: Roxbury (Mass.)

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. The paper also bears a printed circular from the Rhode Island Radical Peace Society, dated 1867. Lucretia Mott shares various news of family and friends, including her servant Mary Quin's marriage and a visit from Mary Pen, a former servant. She plans to attend Rachel Wilson Moore's wedding.

Subjects: Household employees; Marriage; Irish Americans; Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Date inferred from contents; Mott seems to have misdated several letters in spring 1867. The paper also bears an invitation to a Swarthmore College committee meeting, dated 1867. Lucretia Mott gives news of friends and family; she remarks briefly that her brother-in-law has been using a chair on wheels to "assist his locomotion." Mott also very briefly mentions that Edward M. Davis disagrees with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances D. Gage's...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Date inferred from contents; Mott seems to have misdated several letters in spring 1867. Lucretia Mott writes about news of family and friends. She discusses the tensions between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, and other abolitionists based on whether to advocate for women's suffrage alongside African American suffrage; Mott mentions Susan B. Anthony, Aaron M. Powell, Stephen Foster, and Anna E. Dickinson. She also briefly speaks about collecting clothing for charity,...

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Date inferred from contents; Mott seems to have misdated several letters in spring 1867. Lucretia Mott describes the New England Anti-Slavery Society meetings she has attended while in Massachusetts. She notes that the question of whether to focus on women's suffrage as well as African American suffrage was very divisive.Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Women--Suffrage; African Americans--Suffrage; Women orators; New-England Anti-Slavery Society; Abolitionists;...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Handwritten copy of a letter from Lucretia Mott on the letterhead of her son-in-law Edward M. Davis; the original is located in the Heacock Family papers, SFHL-RG5-060. Written from Roadside. Addressed to Annie Heacock and either Jane or Gayner Heacock (refer to "Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott", edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer). Says that Mott is sending supplies for the African-American freedmen the Heacocks are teaching in Port Royal, South Carolina; commends the sisters...