Box 5
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Contains 121 Results:
Mott, Lucretia to Sister, Roadside, 1872 4mo 23
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182319
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott shares news and describes recent events involving family and friends. She says Anna Hopper keeps very busy with her work at Swarthmore. Mott recently saw Laura De Force Gordon speak and describes her as not having "the magnetic power" of some other speakers. She also describes dreading having to meet Gordon as she does every new acquaintance, but she rejoices that "this new generation of advocates have the field." Partially written over a letter...
Dates:
1872 4mo 23
Mott, Lucretia to ? ?, 1872 4mo 28
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182321
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Fragment. Lucretia Mott shares news and describes recent activities of several family members.
Subjects: Personal correspondence; Swarthmore College
Dates:
1872 4mo 28
Mott, Lucretia to Children, Orange, 1872 4mo 3
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182318
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Addressed to "my dears." Lucretia Mott shares news regarding family and friends.
Subjects: Personal correspondence
Relevant locations: Orange (N.J.)
Dates:
1872 4mo 3
Mott, Lucretia to Sister, Philadelphia, 1872 5mo 13
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182320
Scope and Contents
8 pages. Lucretia Mott recounts the illness and death of her great-grandson Penrose Hallowell, son of Anna Davis Hallowell. She talks about recent activities of family members and briefly discusses the suffrage movement. She makes several references to Yearly Meeting, where the topics of marriage and temperance were discussed. She also mentions being unexpectedly visited by four Shakers at her house. Subjects: Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-; Hallowell, Richard P. (Richard Price),...
Dates:
1872 5mo 13
Mott, Lucretia to Wright, Martha, New York, 1872 5mo 27
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182322
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Lucretia Mott recounts her activities while in New York, and she disagrees with some of the "Herald's" account of her preaching. She also discusses attending a Boston Radical Club meeting where a discourse was given by Nathaniel Shaler on the Darwin's theory of biological evolution. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edna Dow Cheney were at the meeting. She also discusses the Free Religion Association meeting in Boston where she was a speaker. She bought several copies of the book...
Dates:
1872 5mo 27
Mott, Lucretia to Children, Orange, 1872 5mo 29
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182324
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Likely continued in Mott, Lucretia to Family, 1872 5mo 29 (A00182323). Lucretia Mott describes topics that were addressed at Yearly Meeting, including temperance and peace. She discusses her finances, which she says are handled by her son-in-law Edward Hopper. Written over part of a letter fragment dated May 18, 1872, to Lucretia Mott, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and Theodore Tilton, inviting them to an Equal Rights Party campaign event; Mott wrote over the remainder of this letter in...
Dates:
1872 5mo 29
Mott, Lucretia to Family, 1872 5mo 29
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182323
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Likely a continuation of Mott, Lucretia to Children, Orange, 1872 5mo 29 (A00182324). Lucretia Mott writes about her upcoming plans in New York and Boston and which meetings she plans to attend. She mentions that she has letters from internationals, labor organizations, and "Sands' Equal Rig" (likely referencing the National Equal Rights Party of which J. L. Sands was chairman) that she has no notion of answering. Partially written over an invitation to the funeral of Marcus H....
Dates:
1872 5mo 29
Mott, Lucretia to Children, Orange, 1872 6mo 10
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182325
Scope and Contents
2 pages. Lucretia Mott encloses an account of the death of her great-grandson Penrose Hallowell. She discusses her activities in Boston, which included attending the Free Religious Association meeting, where Octavius Frothingham delivered an excellent address. Other speakers included Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol and Celia M. Burleigh. She also mentions attending a funeral where Frothingham "preached the best funeral sermon," and Garrison spoke "long and well - rather too much spiritualism." ...
Dates:
1872 6mo 10
Mott, Lucretia to Lord, Martha, Roadside, 1872 6mo 14
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182326
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott describes her recent activities at home after being away for some time. She also recounts recent visits with family members. She requests that the letter also be sent to Martha Coffin Wright. Partially written over a letter fragment signed by J. Q. Sands and Geo. R. Allen of the Equal Rights Party inviting Mott to a ratification meeting. This appears to be a continuation of the letter Mott wrote over in A00182324.Subjects: Hallowell,...
Dates:
1872 6mo 14
Mott, Lucretia to Sister, Orange, 1872 7mo 20
Item — Box: 5
Identifier: A00182327
Scope and Contents
4 pages. Lucretia Mott writes about her recent activities and shares news of family and friends. Sarah Pugh showed up at Roadside unexpectedly looking for Susan B. Anthony and stayed for a visit. Partially written over a letter on Swarthmore College stationery dated May 14, 1872 from Edward H. Magill to Lucretia Mott, inviting her to a public religious meeting at Swarthmore. Subjects: Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875; Pugh, Sarah, 1800-1884; Swarthmore CollegeRelevant...
Dates:
1872 7mo 20
