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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Description:
Written from Roadside. In addition to giving her sister Martha news of family and friends, Lucretia Mott discusses recent social engagements with "old abolitionists" including Sarah Pugh, Elijah Pennypacker, Graceanna Lewis, and Gertrude K. Burleigh; politics and the war; the Christmas gifts her grandchildren received; John William Colenso's recent book on the scriptures and her own opinion on theological issues; charity work being undertaken for the African-American freedmen in Port Royal and Washington, D.C.; James Freeman Clarke and Robert Collyer; and a "home for colored children, possibly the Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans.
Date:
1862-12-27
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Lucretia Mott tells Graceanna Lewis, a Quaker abolitionist and ornithologist, about antislavery meetings she has committed to attend. ''All of my meetings are antislavery meetings, and I trust they will be while we hold millions of our fellow beings in abject bondage.'' Written from Roadside.
Date:
1860-07-31
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Hannah Wright Mifflin
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Hannah Wright Mifflin
Description:
Hannah Wright Mifflin was a Quaker whose family was involved with the Underground Railroad. Lewis discusses the birth of her sister Rebecca Fussell's grandchild, Alice Fussell, and reflects on motherhood. She writes that African-American abolitionist William Still wants to write up a story about a time Mifflin's parents, William and Phebe Wright, aided a fugitive slave. Lewis is working on a piece about Elijah F. Pennypacker's work helping runaway slaves. Lewis's nephew Linnaeus Fussell is in Central America.
Date:
1871-07-09
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Lewis recently attended an antislavery meeting where Elijah Pennypacker, her brother-in-law Edwin Fussell, and a Baptist minister named John Collins discussed communal living and its relationship to progress; the letter summarizes their positions. "Miss Abby" (likely Abby Kimber) was also there. Lewis discusses ideas of morality and religion; she also mentions attending a meeting of the Royal Spring Temperance Society and an anti-tobacco pledge that has been circulating.
Date:
1846-02-10
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Describes a temperance meeting where Lewis heard and spoke with Elijah Pennypacker. Pennypacker discussed his ideas about individual and collective reform, his inclination to separate from the Society of Friends, and "come-outerism." Lewis also discusses an antislavery paper that she and Townsend intend to start, and she encourages Townsend to have more confidence in herself for this venture. Lewis is interested in asking Frederick Douglass to write some articles about "prejudice against color." In addition, she notes that a woman has recently arrived from Baltimore on the advice of her physician with no travelling companions but her five small children.
Date:
1844-1850
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Fragment. Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Lewis describes a pair of funerals she attended. One was for an abolitionist and was also attended by Elijah Pennypacker; the other was for a woman "from a very humble sphere" who "passed away with no husband or child to mourn her."
Date:
1847-1850
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College