Box 4

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3 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott answers Lydia Price's questions about writing to Queen Victoria, speaks of her own frustration with sectarianism, and gives other advice.

Subjects: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; Society of Friends; Quakers

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.); West Chester (Pa.)

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott talks about recent activities of family and friends. She discusses Anna Davis Hallowell's depression and her parents' efforts to keep it secret; in her opinion it is "a mistaken idea that mental disturbances must not be spoken of and treated as other ills." She talks about going to the wedding of William Still's daughter to a man who was formerly enslaved (William Still was an abolitionist whose parents...

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2 pages. Fragment. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright; George Trask letter to Lucretia Mott. Lucretia Mott writes that she sent George Trask "$5 for anti-tobacco slips." Lucretia appears to be staying with her daughter, Martha Mott Lord. Partly written over a letter from George Trask to Lucretia Mott asking her to read an enclosed circular and to pray for him.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Trask, George, 1798-1875

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord; Martha Mellor letter to Lucretia Mott. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes about recent activities of several family members. Appears to be written over a letter from Martha Mellor to Lucretia Mott, but since Mellor's letter is dated 1872-01-15, it is unclear whether someone wrote a date wrong or if the Mellor letter was instead written over Lucretia's letter. Subjects: Personal correspondence; Society of Friends;...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes about recent activities of several family members. She is alone at home and misses her recently-deceased husband, James Mott. She notes, "The Revolution and Woman's Journal too may improve their paper by more on other phases of woman's rights and urging all to prepare to enter the avenues now opening for woman." Subjects: Little women (Alcott, Louisa May); Bereavement; Women's...

Scope and Contents 3 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord; Joseph Dugdale letter to Lucretia Mott. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott talks about the recent activities and health of several family members. She mentions going to a well-attended meeting where Mary Grew gave an excellent speech. Written over an undated letter from Joseph Dugdale to Lucretia Mott. Subjects: Personal correspondence; Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916; Grew, Mary, 1813-1896; Women orators Relevant...

Scope and Contents 4 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright. Lucretia Mott discusses the "reconciliation meeting" called by Theodore Tilton which involved representatives from the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association (the two organizations formed when the American Equal Rights Association split in 1869). She writes "several proposals made - none of which acceded to," and she states that Martha Lord and Anna Coffin Temple Brown were inclined to the Boston...

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2 pages. Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord. Lucretia Mott writes that they had "an encouraging meeting" for Swarthmore College and raised $2,000 which will go towards "paying the debt hanging over us." They still need to furnish the other rooms and fill up the school. She also talks about going to a Freedman's Meeting and a Peace Meeting.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Swarthmore College

Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)

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2 pages. Possibly a fragment. Likely written to Martha Mott Lord. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses recent activities of her family members and friends.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; House selling

Relevant locations: Cheltenham (Pa.)