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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written partially from Roadside; may also have been addressed to Martha Mott Lord. Lucretia Mott passes on recent news of friends and family to her sister Martha "Pattie" Wright and briefly describes a lecture by Anna E. Dickinson. Mott also makes brief mention of sending supplies to Iowa and recent trouble at Camp William Penn (a Union Army training camp for African-American soldiers), and tells stories about her granddaughter Mary Mott Lord (born 1861) and great-granddaughter Maria "May" Hallowell (born 1860).
Date:
1864-04-19
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and family
Description:
Written over the course of several days, in part from Roadside. Lucretia Mott explains why she has not had time to not write to her sister lately and passes on news of friends and family. In addition to briefly discussing the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an antislavery fair hosted by Elizabeth Perot, Mott offers lengthier comments on the wedding of Ann Mather, her family's Christmas cooking for the African-American soldiers at the nearby Camp William Penn, other Christmas arrangements, the illnesses of various friends from the antislavery movement, and the wedding of her cousin Laura Stratton to Fitzhugh Birney, an Episcopalian ("I never witnessed a wedding in a church before, save a Quaker meeting"). Mott also makes brief allusions to her views on war and her own mortality, and a George Ward's employment of African-American farmers.
Date:
1863-12-20
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, Martha Mott Lord, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Description:
Partially from Roadside and partially written from the home of her son-in-law Edward Hopper. In addition to passing along various news of friends and family, Lucretia Mott briefly discusses what she has read recently, a trip to speak at Camp William Penn (a Union Army training camp for African-American soldiers), proposed treatments for various relatives' health issues, aid for and public opinion about African-American freedmen, and her views on war. She also briefly comments on equality within marriage and makes a brief mention of Anna E. Dickinson.
Date:
1864-01-21
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott passes along news of friends and family, including the ill-health of her husband, James Mott, and her daughter Elizabeth Cavender. She makes brief references to Jefferson Davis and John Wilkes Booth, discusses carpets, and briefly describes the disbanding of Camp William Penn, a Union training camp for African-American soldiers. She also mentions that her niece Maria Hopper has been working at a "soldier school" in Beverly, New Jersey.
Date:
1865-05-02
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College