Box 3

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives news of friends and family, including the ill-health of her husband James Mott and her daughter Elizabeth Cavender. She comments briefly on the funeral of Abraham Lincoln.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Funeral journey of Abraham Lincoln to Springfield

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott passes along news of friends and family, including the ill-health of her husband, James Mott, and her daughter Elizabeth Cavender. She makes brief references to Jefferson Davis and John Wilkes Booth, discusses carpets, and briefly describes the disbanding of Camp William Penn, a Union training camp for African-American soldiers. She also mentions that her niece Maria Hopper has been working at a "soldier school" in Beverly, New Jersey....

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses recent news of friends and family, including her niece Anna Coffin Temple Brown, who has been travelling in Europe for the last year. She briefly mentions a "Swarthmore College Festival." Mott also alludes to the "Old Female Meeting," discusses Abby Kimber and the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, and mentions some recent events concerning Wendell Phillips and other abolitionists. Mott's daughter Elizabeth Mott Cavender's health...

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4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives news of friends and family, including the failing health of her daughter Elizabeth Cavender, who is being attended by Dr. Ann Preston. Mott also mentions a call she recently made to Rachel W. Moore. The final page bears notes from Edward Morris Davis to Martha Coffin Wright and from George W. Lord to Eliza Wright Osborne.

Subjects: Moore, Rachel Wilson; Preston, Ann, 1813-1872;

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)

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4 pages. Lucretia Mott discusses the birth of her granddaughter Anna Lord, daughter of George and Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord. She mentions George and Pattie's slight regret that the baby was not a boy. Mott also briefly discusses the death of Frances Seward.

Subjects: Childbirth; Seward, Frances Adeline, 1844-1866

Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

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4 pages. Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has just given birth to a daughter named Anna Lord. Mott's letter passes along news of friends and family, including Pattie's husband George Lord.

Subjects: Local transit; Puerperium

Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Scope and Contents 6 pages. Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her son-in-law George Lord and her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has recently given birth to a daughter named Anna. Mott discusses her activities in New York and mentions visiting Abby Hopper Gibbons and Sarah Moore Grimké. She discusses a recent visit to Medford and Boston with her sister Martha Coffin Wright, during which she visited the Buffum and Garrison families. She also speaks of Lazette Maria Miller Worden, whose sister...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her son-in-law George Lord and her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has just given birth to a daughter named Anna. She describes a recent visit with Nathaniel Barney and Elisa Starbuck Barney in Yonkers, including the religious gatherings she attended with them. She briefly describes giving a speech and discusses news of family and friends. Mott also makes brief references to the antislavery movement.Subjects: Barney,...

Scope and Contents 8 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has just given birth to a daughter named Anna. Her husband, James Mott, describes his recent activities and passes along news of friends and family. He briefly mentions Deborah Wharton and discusses Rachel W. Moore (who's husband recently died) and James Miller McKim (who was recently pickpocketed) at greater length.Subjects: Personal correspondence; Moore, Rachel...

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has just given birth to a daughter named Anna. She mentions a visit to John Merritt's and Robert Collyer and discusses Quaker ideas about music, dancing, and weddings. "The solemnity of a marriage forbade its being made a festive occasion. . . . I thought 'the practice of music and the feelings of Friends had undergone such change, as to regard it less objectionable in this day--when...