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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Fragment; had been mailed with another letter. Lucretia Mott consoles her sister, who has recently lost a child, and discusses the daily happenings of her life.
Date:
1849-1852
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Date and recipient inferred. Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis's. Lewis is glad that magnetism has helped Townsend recover; she gives details of her mother Esther Lewis's use of it, and says that while it may be fiction, it works. Lewis encourages Townsend to speak out more on antislavery, and discusses reform in general; after mentioning those who ask for merciful treatment out of self-interest, she says that "true reform can have no sympathy." She mentions some writing that Townsend sent to her, and spends some time on theological questions of divine love and the source of evil. She ends by describing garden work and her fondness for insects.
Date:
1845
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Description:
Esther Fussell Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' mother. Lewis describes experiments with magnetism and phrenology performed on another woman that caused her to see visions. She also comments on Baltimore Yearly Meeting, church bells, and abolitionism.
Date:
1842-10-12
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She has been ill for some time and has been attended by many doctors. She tells Lewis of a new physician who has been treating her, a woman named Miriam De Bonneville, and discusses the treatments De Bonneville uses. She also discusses Fredrika Bremer's travels in the United States, mentions a school that Lewis has been working at, and talks of paranormal phenomena reported at Rochester. The letter also includes several pages written in pencil by someone else, possibly Lewis's brother-in-law Dr. Edwin Fussell.
Date:
1849-1850
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Kimber, Esther Fussell Lewis, Mariann Lewis, and Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Abby Kimber, and Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Abby Kimber's part of the letter discusses at length experiments with "Phreno-Magnetism" (apparently a combination of phrenology and animal magnetism or hypnotism) performed on Gertrude Kimber Burleigh by Emmor Kimber, who put her in a trance and then touched the various phrenological "organs" on her skull and observed her behavior. Esther Lewis's part of the letter, dictated to Mariann Lewis and dated 1843, discusses news of friends and family, including a problem with her foot that prevented her from walking for several weeks and the recent formation of a temperance pledge society nearby. Mariann Lewis's part of the letter discusses the travel-plans of Fussell's husband Edwin. Graceanna Lewis's part of the letter discusses her life in York, where she worked as a teacher in her uncle Bartholomew Fussell's school.
Date:
1842-02-05 - 1842-04-14
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Esther Fussell Lewis, Mariann Lewis, and Elizabeth Lewis letter to Edwin Fussell and Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Esther Fussell Lewis, and Elizabeth Lewis letter to Edwin Fussell and Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Dictated by Esther Fussell Lewis to Mariann Lewis, who, with Elizabeth Lewis, has added a good deal of news. Esther's part answers Edwin and Rebecca's request for advice about joining a communal settlement, urging strongly against joining. Elizabeth's part reproduces, from Graceanna Lewis's letter of 1842-10-12 (A00179475), a description of an experiment involving animal magnetism and phrenology performed on Rachel Wright.
Date:
1842-12-13
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Ellen N. Stephens
Title:
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Ellen N. Stephens
Description:
Written in verse. Discusses her inclination for poetry. Describes her recent social activities, including visits to the Motts and James Miller McKim. Passes on news of friends and family. Discusses an attempted magnetic healing and her attitudes on magnetism generally. Imagines traveling to Ellen as a spirit and hearing some of her acquaintances mocking her views on human rights and racial equality. Discusses the religious grounds for her belief in universal human rights.
Date:
1843-02-05
Collection:
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College