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This collection consists of correspondence and associated papers written and received by Isaac T. Hopper. The letters and documents are gathered from various sources, but they mainly consist of letters from Isaac Hopper to his daughter Sarah, and which comprise part of the Sarah Hopper Palmer Family Papers. Also included are correspondence with prominent Quakers including Elias Hicks, Thomas M'Clintock and Elijah Pennypacker. The collection touches on an enormous variety of subjects, ranging from Friends doctrine, simplicity, and the Separation of 1827; social justice, abolitionism, and prison reform; and personal anecdotes, accounts of meetings with friends, and the 1832 Cholera Epidemic.

Financial papers, mostly bills and receipts.

See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Semi-daily entries describe Wilbur's daily life; teaching career; participation in the anti-slavery movement, including attendance at anti-slavery meetings; extensive attendance at various lectures and meetings on subjects including science, religion, temperance, teaching, abolition, and women's rights; presence during speeches of prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and William Lloyd Garrison; participation in the women's rights movement; and family relationships.

Wilbur wrote small paragraph-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Primarily documents her social interactions and events of the Civil War. Frequently refers to losing custody of her niece Alfreda Bigelow.

Lucretia Mott and Mary Grew thank Leonard Myers and his colleagues for fighting for abolition and assures them they are doing the right thing.

Addressed to her husband Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). Discusses her activities in Port Elizabeth with friends/family. Received the papers her husband sent with his last letter, and reports that an individual named Joseph confiscated abolitionist reading material from her. Says that "Joseph is like many others completely the slave of prejudice, and from hearing a few others talk against the Abolitionist, a ranter against them, purely because he knows nothing about them."

Shares his recollections of Lucretia Mott and describes in depth the early history of the abolitionist movement and the establishment of antislavery societies. Discusses multiple individuals to varying degrees, including William Lloyd Garrison, Prudence Crandall, Lydia Maria Child, James Watson Webb, James Forten, Beriah Green, Lewis Tappan, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Martineau, the Grimk´e; sisters, and others. Says a man named Mr. Wakefield predicted that "women would do more and dare more for our cause than men." When discussing the Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833, Wright describes Lucretia Mott's speech and says, I cannot be mistaken as to the influence of Mrs. Mott over that truly historic convention, and yet, when a few years ago I fell in with what was probably the fullest report of it, I could not find in it a word of her speech or even her name! I could hardly believe my own eyes, and did not much feel like preserving a document which had left out what best deserved to be in it.

Has sent Jackson a copy of "Lays of Quakerdom" by Benjamin Rush Plumly. Reminisces about attaining a copy of the book from Plumly at Philadelphia's 1853 Decade Anti-Slavery Fair, and discusses abolitionists who attended, including Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis, Sojourner Truth, Charles Burleigh, and others. Recounts interacting with the Biddle Press to publish new copies of the "Lays of Quakerdom." Also discusses distributing copies of "Mollie Pryce" to Jackson and others. Shares news concerning family/friends in the postscript.

Titled "A sketch of the life of Lucretia Mott by her nephew Ellis Yarnall." Subtitled "Written out after one or two evenings spent in talking with her." Probably a handwritten copy by Maria Mott Davis.

Discusses her work in writing a manuscript about James and Lucretia Mott as antislavery activists, which she has enclosed (Anna Davis Hallowell was in charge of developing a biography about Lucretia Mott). Mentions her poor health and making preparations for the Annual Meeting of the Woman Suffrage Society.