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Scope and Contents 8 pages. Written from Roadside; it is not clear whether pages 1-4 and pages 5-8 are part of the same letter. Lucretia Mott passes along recent news of friends and family. She discusses a recent period of illness, which she attributes to overwork, and lists treatments she has tried. She also briefly mentions the schooling of her granddaughter Ellen Lord and talks about a visit from Robert Collyer, an abolitionist and Unitarian minister. Thomas or Marianna Mott has also written a letter to...

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2 pages. Fragment. Written over a note possibly from Nathaniel Barney to Lucretia Mott discussing travel arrangements to Yonkers, New York. Mott discusses recent deaths and other brief news of family and friends.

Subjects: Voyages and travels; Personal correspondence

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives news of family and friends, including her son-in-law Thomas Cavender's legal and financial difficulties, and discusses her family's Christmas celebrations.

Subjects: Christmas; Personal correspondence

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

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8 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives news of family and friends and talks about the work Rachel Wilson Moore and other women are doing to help African-American freedmen. She also writes of the financial and legal difficulties of her son-in-law Thomas Cavender and her daughter Elizabeth Mott Cavender.

Subjects: Freedmen--Charities; Women social reformers; Moore, Rachel Wilson

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

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6 pages. Describes the birth of Anna Davis Hallowell's son James Mott Hallowell (1865-1928). Expresses concern that Edward Morris Davis is overworking himself with the "Board."

Subjects: Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-; Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887; Childbirth

Relevant locations: Medford (Mass.)

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4 pages. Provides updates about Anna Davis Hallowell and her newborn son James Mott Hallowell (1865-1928) and discusses Anna Davis Hallowell's other children.

Subjects: Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-

Relevant locations: Medford (Mass.)

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4 pages. Lucretia Mott passes along news of family and friends, including the birth of her great-grandson James Mott Hallowell. She also discusses politics around abolitionists and the Civil War.

Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Abolitionists

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott mentions her recent success with medical electricity, briefly alludes to the surrender at Appomattox, and references Robert Collyer and the National Unitarian Convention. She also discusses the American Freedmen's Union Commission being organized by James Miller McKim and whether it will include women.Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Electricity in medicine; Electrotherapeutics; M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller),...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses the collective reaction to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15 and passes on other news of friends and family. She describes an incident in which her husband, James Mott, fell and injured himself. Mott also conveys sympathy for Frances Adeline Seward, whose husband and children had recently been injured in an assassination attempt.Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents--Assassination; Mott, James,...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives news of friends and family, including the health of her daughter Elizabeth Cavender. She reminisces over some early events in her and her cousin Mary Hussey Earle's life and discusses whether the children of interfaith marriages can be birthright Friends. She also describes an incident in which her husband, James Mott, fell and injured himself.Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Genealogy; Mott, James, 1788-1868; Quakers...