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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Description:
Written from Roadside. Describes recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Discusses the recent deaths of Martha Holland and Samuel Bettle. Complains about the unequal wages between men and women and expresses her desire to have another Women's Rights Convention. Shares her opinions on the National Woman's rights meeting in New York City earlier in the month, where Susan B. Anthony spoke. Discusses the birth of her great-niece (daughter of Ellis and Margaret Yarnall). Dislikes the changing format of the antislavery meetings, saying, Fixed speeches on such occasions are not to be compared to spontaneous discussion; remarks on speeches by Wendell Phillips, Antoinette Blackwell Brown, Ernestine L. Rose, and Susan B. Anthony. Mentions Martha Coffin Wright's visit to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the recent birth of her son Robert Stanton.
Date:
1859-05-22
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott and Anna Coffin Temple Brown letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott and Anna Coffin Temple Brown letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Pages 1-11 were written by Lucretia Mott; the letter written by Anna Coffin Temple Brown begins on page 11. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Recounts attending multiple antislavery/general meetings and the participation of Rachel Barker, who "preached powerfully, Robert Collyer, James Miller McKim, and others. Discusses Henry Bleby. Discusses to varying degrees Rachel Barker, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony, Ernestine L. Rose, and other women activists; says, Let not S. B. Anthony abate one whit of her outspoken zeal, nor E. C. Stanton one word of her vigorous writing." Shares her opinions on Joseph Barker and his recent participation in abolitionist activities.
Date:
1858-10-14
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letters to Thomas Mott and Marianna Pelham Mott
Title:
Letters to Thomas Mott and Marianna Pelham Mott
Description:
Thomas and Marianna Mott are traveling in Europe. The letter beginning on page 1 was written by George Lord; the letters beginning on pages 2 and 4 were written by Lucretia Mott; the letter beginning on page 3 was possibly written by Maria Mott Davis. Details recent events and news concerning family and friends. References the circulation of correspondence. Lucretia Mott discusses reading "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. Mentions the imprisonment of and newspaper articles concerning Passmore Williamson. Recounts Ernestine L. Rose's opinions on Dr. Stamm as an ineffective reformer for the Women's Rights Movement. Mentions Richard Cromwell's negative behavior towards her at a recent meeting in New York.
Date:
1855-11-25
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cornelia Hancock letter to Mrs. Phillip S. Justice
Title:
Cornelia Hancock letter to Mrs. Phillip S. Justice
Description:
Written by Quaker reformer and educator Cornelia Hancock. Letter of introduction for Emily Howland and her niece to friends in London. States that EH is an old abolitionist and would like to visit Ernestine L. Rose.
Date:
1883-12-30
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Cady Stanton letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. She discusses Lucretia Mott, Ernestine Rose, and others, as well as the suffrage movement as a whole.
Date:
1894-12-07
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Suffrage leaders
Title:
Suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Portrait of Frances Wright, editor of the "Free Inquirer" in New York, 1828. The first periodical in U.S.A. established for fearless, unbiased inquiry on all subjects. (b) Mrs. Marcus Spring, Mrs. C.M. Severance, and Susan B. Anthony. (c) Portrait of Ernestine L. Rose. Daughter of a rabbi who was exiled from Poland. She circulated the first petition among women asking the Albany legislature to grant married women the right to control their own property. She secured eleven signatures. (d) Portrait of Rhoda Palmer who attended 1848 W.R. Con. and lived to vote in 1920 election at age of 102.
Date:
1850
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Lucretia Mott letter to Susan B. Anthony
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Susan B. Anthony
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes of learning about Ernestine L. Rose's plans to go to Europe. She praises Rose's "out-spoken radicalism, and forbearance toward the ignorant criminal and wrong doer - as well as wrong thinker." She also notes that she was always attracted to her lectures and their "candor in unpopular heterodoxy."
Date:
1869-06-06
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College