Box 3

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Mott's daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord has recently moved out of Roadside to New York City, and Mott discusses furniture shipments and house furnishings with her, as well as the house work she has been doing.

Subjects: Furniture; House furnishings

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 6 pages. Written from Roadside. Mott discusses house furnishings with her daughter Martha, who recently moved out of Mott's house and is now living in New York City. She advises her daughter on books to buy, saying that "the Koran is worth owning" but urging her to "avoid foolish novels"; discusses her own reading habits. Briefly references a meeting to aid "contraband" (formerly enslaved people who escaped to Union lines) in Missouri; and comments briefly on her own drinking habits....

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2 pages. Written from Roadside. Mott's daughter has recently relocated from Roadside to New York City, and Mott discusses furniture shipments and house furnishings with her.

Subjects: Furniture; House furnishings

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. The paper bears a printed announcement of a meeting of "the executive committee of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to promote Subscriptions to the Stock of Friends Educational Association." Mott's daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord has recently moved away to New York, and Mott discusses Lord's furniture sale as well as her own housework.Subjects: Furniture; House furnishings; Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916Relevant locations: Cheltenham...

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2 pages. Written from Roadside; seems to be a fragment. Mott questions some decisions her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord recently made in the process of moving into a new house in New York.

Subjects: Furniture; Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Mott describes a recent visit she made to her cousin Rebecca Bunker Neall in Mount Holly, New Jersey, and discusses plans for the upcoming wedding of her cousin Laura Stratton to an Episcopalian.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Weddings

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 8 pages. Written from Eddington, the farm where Lucretia Mott's daughter Elizabeth Cavender and son-in-law Thomas Cavender lived from 1860-1865; the paper also bears a printed a circular advertising the speeches of Mrs. Emily Shaw (possibly Mott's granddaughter Emily Mott Shaw). Lucretia Mott gives her daughter Martha ("Pattie") Lord and son-in-law law George Lord various news of friends and family and discusses recent visitors they have had. She makes brief mention of various topics,...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. The paper bears a printed announcement of a meeting of "the executive committee of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to promote Subscriptions to the Stock of Friends Educational Association." Mott tells her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord, who has recently moved into a new house in New York, about the furniture and other supplies she has sent to her. Mott also gives news of family and friends, briefly mentions a meeting in Bristol, and her daughter Maria's...

Scope and Contents 6 pages. Written over the course of several days, in part from Roadside. Lucretia Mott explains why she has not had time to not write to her sister lately and passes on news of friends and family. In addition to briefly discussing the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an antislavery fair hosted by Elizabeth Perot, Mott offers lengthier comments on the wedding of Ann Mather, her family's Christmas cooking for the African-American soldiers at the nearby Camp William Penn,...

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Written from Roadside. The paper also bears a printed letter from George L. Stearns to Morris L. Hallowell about conditions in Nashville, Tennessee (dated 1863-09-19), and a manuscript letter from Morris L. Hallowell to James Mott asking for a charitable contribution. Lucretia Mott tells Martha Wright that her granddaughter Anna Davis Hallowell is on her way to visit Martha in Auburn, New York. Subjects: Freedmen--Charities; African Americans--Charities;...