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Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions wanting to see Elizabeth Cady Stanton's reply to Gerrit Smith's "unreasonable demand" and comments on a disappointing speech from Henry Ward Beecher. Details the illness and death of her grandson, George Hopper (1847-1856).

Discusses various religious tracts including Charles Wesley's "Awake Thou That Sleepest, Henry Ward Beecher's Power of the Spirit, and John Barclay's Three Letters."

Written from Roadside; possibly a fragment. Lucretia Mott thanks Martha Wright for her letter and gift. She recently spent some time with her daughter Anna Mott Hopper and discusses Anna's health, seeming positive about her improvements. She briefly discusses William Lloyd Garrison. She shares recent news concerning family and friends, with a particular focus on health issues. She asks if Martha has read the recent remarks in the Index "on the Beecher 'scandal' and the cruel treatment of Victoria" (Victoria Claflin Woodhull had been arrested the year prior after publishing an article in "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" alleging an adulterous affair between Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, wife of Theodore Tilton) and admits that she has not answered Claflin's letter to her yet because she does not know "just how." She has read the "literature and dogma" of Matthew Arnold with "so much interest." She writes about some recent dental issues of some family members. Partially written over a letter from L. M. Green to Lucretia Mott enclosing some lines of O. W. Holmes, perhaps referring to Oliver Wendell Holmes. Also partially written over a notice of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Peace Society's executive committee.

Pages scanned in reading order. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes that Joshua Hallowell has died and shares her concern for his family. She tells of news concerning family of friends and mentions circulation of correspondence. She discusses her sister Martha Wright's comments on "the cruelty of punishing children for their childish faults, noting that she is losing ground in [her] advocacy of government by love alone" as a result of the "obstreperous children, seemingly referring to her great-grandchildren. She also notes that the comments on the Woodhull and Beecher scandal are very good, saying she agrees with her, perhaps referring to Victoria Claflin Woodhull. She spoke with a Universalist minister who said that Mrs. Woodhull's mind was not clean and that she thought Tilton has put some of that scandal into her head" (Woodhull had been arrested the year prior after publishing an article in "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" alleging an adulterous affair between Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, wife of Theodore Tilton). Partially written over a letter dated June 16, 1972 from Mott's grandson Charles Cavender; he asks Mott to send him twenty dollars.

Sarah L. Stilson was a teacher. She expresses anger that "Mr. Beecher" (most likely Henry Ward Beecher), has been slandered by some people calling him an anti-suffragist. She writes, How can anybody with the slightest reasoning faculty be other than a suffragist? She also talks of young girls who are taking up the subject and even showing interest in national affairs. She tells Chapman not to get discouraged, for she knows that "beyond this struggle is surely victory, even if it be 10 years from now or later.