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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives her sister news of friends and family and discusses Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and the relationship of slavery to the war. Mott also talks at length of the dismissal of John C. Frémont, a Union general who favored emancipation and under whom Mott's son-in-law Edward M. Davis served.
Date:
1861-11-06
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
George Luther Stearns letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
George Luther Stearns letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
George Luther Stearns was an abolitionist and recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the Civil War. The letter discusses the recent death of Gibbons's brother John Hopper. Mentions Stearns' efforts to help Maria R. Mann's school. Talks about politics, antislavery, and Abraham Lincoln's ruthless ambition.
Date:
1864-07-31
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College