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Lucretia Mott writes about recent events involving family and friends, including her husband James' health problems. She mentions reading an essay on women's culture from the "Catholic World, likely referring to an essay by Félix Dupanloup titled Learned Women and Studious Women." She references some divisions within the women's rights movement and states that she will not "put on paper anything of complaint of our loved co-adjutors, till they had had more time for defense and explanation." However, she does note that "Elizabeth Stanton's sympathy for 'Sambo' is very questionable" and that she will not subscribe to the "Revolution" (a newspaper started by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony), calling it "not satisfactory." She talks of plans to withdraw from office despite Lucy Stone's protests. A portion of this letter is written over a letter from Julia Holmes to Lucretia Mott dated October 8, 1867.

Provides her recollections of Lucretia Mott for the development of Lucretia Mott's biography (Anna Davis Hallowell was in charge of the biography's development). Recounts historic events of the abolitionist movement and Lucretia Mott's involvement, including sexism within the movement, the establishment of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (which Mott served as president of), anti-slavery fairs, rioting mobs, Mott's boycotting of products made by slave labor, aiding former slave Jane Johnson, and attending trials in support of fugitive slaves, including Daniel (Dangerfield) Webster. Briefly discusses Mott's participation in the women's rights movement. Says, And generations of women yet unborn shall rise up and call her blessed.

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