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1860 February 23, Woodbourne, [to Dear Brother], Philadelphia
Title:
1860 February 23, Philadelphia
Description:
Contains a separate draft of the letter's first sentence.
Date:
1860-02-23
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1843 August 15, Philada., to Henry
Title:
1843 August 15, to Henry
Description:
Letter includes Thomas P. Cope's recollection of the 1816 death of his son, Francis.
Date:
1843-08-15
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1879[?] February 21, Hotel Brtannique, Naples, to My dear Brother & Sister
Title:
1879[?] February 21, to My dear Brother & Sister
Description:
Author writes her condolences for the death of a child, possibly Oliver C. Cope (born and died 1879).
Date:
1879-02-21
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1860 October 7, Woodbourne, to My Dear Niece
Title:
1860 October 7, to My Dear Niece
Date:
1860-10-07
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Mentions wanting to see Elizabeth Cady Stanton's reply to Gerrit Smith's "unreasonable demand" and comments on a disappointing speech from Henry Ward Beecher. Details the illness and death of her grandson, George Hopper (1847-1856).
Date:
1856-01-07
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts
1879 February 21, Naples, to My dear Alexis & Lilly
Title:
1879 February 21, to My dear Alexis & Lilly
Date:
1879-02-21
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Lucretia Mott letter
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter
Description:
Fragment. Likely written to Martha Mott Lord. Lucretia Mott writes that she and her daughter Maria Davis have arrived at the home of her nephew George Brown. The baby of George and Mary Brown's son Ellis Brown had died shortly after being born. Partially written over a letter from Mary Yarnall Brown to Lucretia stating that her grandchild had been born and had passed away from a sudden illness.
Date:
1879-1880
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
R. S. Abbott letter to Rebecca White
Title:
R. S. Abbott letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Addressed to "dear cousin." Gives news of Abbott and her family, including the death of her son Joseph. Reflects on divine mercy and other religious themes. Describes in great detail the last days of her son William, who had died of diphtheria several months earlier.
Date:
1863-02-20
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
It is possible that the last two pages are from a different letter than the first three. Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott tells her sister Martha about the sickness, death, and burial of her granddaughter (the daughter of Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord and George Lord), as well as the fruit that her family and friends have grown. Heard someone praise Martha Wright for her speech at a recent convention on women's rights, mentions that her first antislavery meeting of the season is coming up, and briefly discusses going to a "colored meeting" involving a man who had been helping fugitive slaves. Mott also talks at length about a visit from Caroline Chase Stratton Wood, who is getting divorced.
Date:
1860-09-13
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts
1860 May 14, Woodbourne, [to Dear Brother] Philadelphia
Title:
1860 May 14, [to Dear Brother] Philadelphia
Date:
1860-05-14
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Martha Schofield letter to Sarah J. Ash
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sarah J. Ash
Description:
Sarah Ash was Martha Schofield's sister. Schofield offers sympathy over the recent death of Ash's son Samuel Earl Ash. She shares some of her fondest memories of Earl and writes that they should take comfort in the knowledge that he is in heaven.
Date:
1892-08-26
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Discusses her grief over the death of her nephew Lawrence P. Corbin (1868-1870). Describes lying with him until his death.
Date:
1870-03
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She writes that she has just received news that her young niece has died after being burned by scalding water. She is heartbroken and hopes that her sister Almira will come and stay with her and their other sister Carrie Taylor Corbin while she is grieving over the death of her daughter.
Date:
1870-01-31
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to William and Mary Johnson
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to William and Mary Johnson
Description:
Lucretia Mott gives her condolences for the loss of William and Mary Johnson's infant daughter and notifies them of the recent passing of Edward and Elizabeth Parrish's son.
Date:
1842-01-17
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Fragment; likely a continuation of Lucretia Mott to Martha Coffin Wright, 1861-08-18 (A00181988). Mott gives her sister news of friends and family, especially her grandchildren, and recommend the works of Herbert Spencer on education. She also discusses the war, her travel plans for the year, her relatives' handwriting and names, and (briefly) a visit from Joseph Dugdale and Sarah Dugdale.
Date:
1861-08-20
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her daughters
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her daughters
Description:
Written from Roadside; the final paragraph is written in faint pencil. Mott discusses the illness, death, and burial of her grandson Henry "Harry" Cavender (1849-1863), son of Thomas Cavender and Elizabeth Mott Cavender, as well as other news of family and friends. Mott also reflects on the Civil War, discusses a recent speech by Charles Sumner, and tells of running into the ex-husband of her cousin Caroline Stratton. Mott says of the Civil War: "How many are cut down, alas! Still, I wish to compare these awful sacrifices, with the tenfold—yes—manifold, in numbers, that slavery has doomed to the most cruel deaths from generation to generation—and if, by this present means, these cruelties can be arrested, and an end draw nigh to man's claim of property in his fellow man, we need not 'be troubled'—knowing that 'these things must needs be.' My faith, however, in the superior force of the 'mighty weapons' that 'are not carnal, ' is unshaken."
Date:
1863-09-12
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, Maria Mott Davis, and their children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, and their children
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses news of family and friends. She writes at some length about her servant Catherine Corr, who recently gave birth prematurely to a son and whose young daughter is suffering "a disease of the brain" and is not expected to live much longer. She briefly discusses the illness of her young granddaughter Anna Lord, the travel plans of various family members, her niece's wedding preparations, Sarah Speakman McKim's feelings about her new neighborhood, and her own ideas about medicine.
Date:
1866-08-14
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Lucretia Mott recounts the illness and death of her great-grandson Penrose Hallowell, son of Anna Davis Hallowell. She talks about recent activities of family members and briefly discusses the suffrage movement. She makes several references to Yearly Meeting, where the topics of marriage and temperance were discussed. She also mentions being unexpectedly visited by four Shakers at her house.
Date:
1872-05-13
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Palmer and Jonathan Palmer
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Palmer and Jonathan Palmer
Description:
Gibbons describes her sorrow over the death of her young brother Thomas, who passed away in her arms. Her brother John arranged for an Italian artist to come make a death mask of the child at midnight. She herself made a silhouette of Thomas's face. Her young sister Hannah also passed away. Speaks positively of a young man named James, possibly her future husband James Gibbons.
Date:
1832-02-14
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Anna Mott Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Anna Mott Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Anna Mott Hopper was Abby's sister-in-law. Discusses the recent deaths of her son George and Abby's son William. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends. Concerned about the prevalence of scarlet fever in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
Date:
1856-12-17
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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