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Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott shares news about family members and lists the items she is donating for Christmas. She recommends John Weiss's book, ''American Religion'' and notes that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ''ought to write often to the Golden Age.'' She discusses the growing support for Victoria Claflin Woodhull despite ''her unwise utterances as to the 'right of doing wrong.''' Mott is concerned about Josephine Griffing's health problems. She discusses Lucy Stone's decision to print H. Tracy Cutler's article complaining about Stanton in the Woman's Journal. She mentions the Laura Fair case, Theodore Tilton, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, her own advancing age, and others matters. She also briefly discusses the ''Alabama case'' between the U.S. and the U.K. and recent smallpox vaccinations at Swarthmore College. Pages 7-14 may be out of order. Partially written over a letter from Henry M. Laing dated 1871-12-23, and also partially written over a letter from C. L. Farrington to Lucretia Mott, dated 1871-12-08.

Written from Roadside. Possibly a fragment. Lucretia Mott writes that she had Paulina Davis and Sarah Pugh over, and they told her about the Washington Meeting. Davis and Isabella Beecher Hooker are seeking signers of their petition to the Judiciary Committee to give women the right to vote. They asked if Martha Wright will go to Albany to get signers, and Lucretia lists people in Philadelphia she thinks they could get to sign. She discusses recent activities of family and friends; Martha Wright is suffering from rheumatism. Briefly talks about a meeting and mentions Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Partially written over a letter from Charlotte L. Peirce to Lucretia Mott in which she recalls going to the Seneca Falls Convention, and she alludes to the current divisions within the woman suffrage movement but feels that "our aim is the same, what matter if we all do not all choose the same means to accomplish it?"