Box 1

Includes an account of visit of Frederica Bremer. Also photocopy of a typed copy of a letter from James Russell Lowell to Elizabeth Townsend

"Dear cousin," her future husband

A copy? The author of the letter defended slavery and argued for a gradual end rather than immediate. Also included, a printed petition from women of [blank] Pennsylvania for immediate end of slavery in D.C., etc. Mary and Elizabeth Townsend were strong supporters of abolition.

Journal of a steamship trip to New York City; she commented on raucous 4th of July celebration. The the trip continued to New Rochelle and up the Hudson, returning on the Delaware River. She mentioned visits from Elias and Willett Hicks, Isaac T. Hopper, Edward Hopper and other prominent Friends. Also a draft typed transcript

Bound volume contains a copies of her "letters' written in verse. Antislavery sentiments, "Diary" in verse of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 5 month 1840, including her reactions to queries and Committee reports. Letter to Grace Anna Lewis, 3 month 9, 1845. "Characters written for dolls sold at the Antislavery Fairs," including cook, housekeeper, fugitive slave.

Narrative poem by Hannah and Elizabeth Townsend

Botanical Emblems volume 1 1834 (dried flower inside)

Manuscript and photocopies

Very faded account in small notebook together with handwritten copy by her sister Elizabeth and a typed transcription. Romantic telling of her grandmother's courtship.

In verse by Elizabeth Townsend