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Written from Roadside. Reports recent events and news concerning family and friends. Discusses astronomy, science, and the theft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's possessions during a recent visit. References her participation in the recent antislavery meetings in Baltimore. Holds negative opinions of "the little Temperance lecturer, saying that she isn't one of us." Shares her opinions on multiple women's rights issues, including her support of the Bloomer fashion and the right of Lucy Stone to use her maiden name; "It needs that advocates of Womans Rights should be thoroughly grounded, to be able to stand firm against all opposition, and ridicule, and misrepresentation." Antoinette Brown Blackwell spoke to a full house at the Annual Meeting. Discusses J. B. Toulmin's [sp] interest in abolitionism and his support of Fanny Wright's "mission and experiment" for African Americans. Mentions receiving correspondence from Griffith M. Cooper, Elizabeth Pease Nichol, and Harriet Martineau. Mentions her daughters hemming sheets for the "Colored Home, Sydney Howard Gay, and Jessie White Mario. A Mrs. Young is holding an anatomy and physiology lecture in Philadelphia.

Fragment. Lucretia Mott is staying with her daughter, Martha Mott Lord. She talks about Sarah McKim's and Martha Lord's injuries and Anna Lord's broken leg as a result of a carriage accident. Lucretia will be staying a few days longer to help care for the family.

Lucretia Mott and her daughter give abolitionist James Miller McKim news about family and friends, discuss the place of clergy in the antislavery movement, and discuss women's rights. "How hard it is to correct the low estimate set on Woman's labors!" (For an explanation of the "pencillings" discussed in the letter, see A00182486.)