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Fragment. Lucretia Mott discusses recent events concerning friends and family, including tension between her sister Martha Wright and others, Caroline Stratton Wood, men not offering women their seats, antislavery fairs, periodicals, clothing, several meals, and carpet balls.

Lucretia Mott discusses news concerning family and friends, particularly that of her widowed cousin Caroline Stratton.

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.

Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses the recent remarriage of Charles Wood (ex-husband of her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton) and various people's reaction to it. She briefly discusses Wendell Phillips Garrison's and Lucy McKim's romantic involvement. She relates news about friends and family, including Augusta Stratton Needles's recent run-in with Confederate soldiers.

Lucretia Mott discusses recent events concerning family/friends, the marriage of Caroline (probably her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton), illnesses within the family, and sewing. Mentions going with Willie to Media, where he gave an abolitionist speech. Note at the end signed E.W.O., probably Martha Wright's daughter Eliza Wright Osborne (1830-1911).

Handwritten copy. Written from Roadside. Elizabeth S. Miller was a reformer and women's right activist. Lucretia Mott thanks Miller for her kind letter and gift and says she would be very glad to have a visit from Miller. She mentions that her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton has recently died. She references recent controversy surrounding the Comstock Laws, which prohibited sending obscene material through the mail and were named after their foremost advocate Anthony Comstock. She is glad that Ezra Heywood is free (Heywood was arrested for distributing a pamphlet on marriage reform but was pardoned by President Rutherford B. Hayes) and adds that "Comstock's power ought to be limited or taken away."

Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott shares news and discusses recent events concerning family and friends. She writes that she has been ill, and Maria (Davis?) has had shingles. Edward Magill's only son recently died from diphtheria.

Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott relays news of friends and family to her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord and her relatives in Auburn, New York. Discusses the recent marriage of Emma Parker and Charles Wood (the ex-husband of Caroline Chase Stratton, whose daughter Laura Birney recently lost her husband). Briefly describes quarterly meeting and lists several speakers, including Deborah Wharton. References the courtship of Wendell Garrison and Lucy McKim. Discusses a recent disagreement with James Miller McKim and related disagreements among other abolitionists, including Wendell Phillips. Disapproves of her granddaughter Maria Hopper going to help Abby Hopper Gibbons and Sarah Emerson as army nurses at City Point, Virginia. The final page is a letter in pencil from Ellen "Nellie" Lord (1855-1897) to her mother.

Appears to be a fragment. Possibly written on March 18th. Describes recent events and news concerning family and friends, including the failing marriage of her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton and Charles Wood. Mentions planning to skip the National Woman's Rights Convention in New York in favor of attending the New England Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston.