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1887 June 22, Philadelphia, to My own dear wife
Title:
1887 June 22, to My own dear wife
Date:
1887-06-22
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1828 May 3, List of clothes, books & other articles packed in two leather trunks &c, for Montrose, 5 Mo. 3. 1828
Title:
1828 May 3, books & other articles packed in two leather trunks &c, 5 Mo. 3. 1828
Description:
List of clothes taken with me from Philada. to Woodbourne--- 5 Mo. --1828. Also, list of bedding & furniture in dwelling at Woodbourne.

William Drinker Cope moved to Susquehanna County, Pa. (Montrose, later at Woodbourne) where he established a farm in order to look after his father's land interests.
Date:
1828-05-03
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1860 April 10, to My dear sisters
Title:
1860 April 10, to My dear sisters
Date:
1860-04-10
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1895 August 11, Woodbourne, to dearest Mother
Title:
1895 August 11, to dearest Mother
Description:
Stationery has a brown embossed "ESC."
Date:
1895-08-11
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1862 December 3, to Dear Cousin Sarah
Title:
1862 December 3, to Dear Cousin Sarah
Date:
1862-12-03
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1892 July 25, Philadelphia, to Dear Anna
Title:
1892 July 25, to Dear Anna
Date:
1892-07-25
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Mott's daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord has recently moved out of Roadside to New York City, and Mott discusses furniture shipments and house furnishings with her, as well as the house work she has been doing.
Date:
1863-10-30
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. The paper bears a printed announcement of a meeting of "the executive committee of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to promote Subscriptions to the Stock of Friends Educational Association." Mott's daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord has recently moved away to New York, and Mott discusses Lord's furniture sale as well as her own housework.
Date:
1863-11-08
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; seems to be a fragment. Mott questions some decisions her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord recently made in the process of moving into a new house in New York.
Date:
1863-11-10
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. Discusses furniture Mott has had shipped to her daughter (who recently moved out of Roadside and into a house in New York City) for her new home and asks what sorts of plates and platters she needs.
Date:
1863-10-29
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 over a child's letter to "Aunt Elly, apparently Eliza Osborne. Lucretia Mott relays news of friends/family, including events concerning Cyrus Dennis. She also discusses furniture, William Heacock the furniture seller, her domestic servants, and Thomas Cavender, the husband of her deceased daughter, Elizabeth Cavender.
Date:
1866-06-08
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. The paper bears a printed announcement of a meeting of "the executive committee of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to promote Subscriptions to the Stock of Friends Educational Association." Mott tells her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord, who has recently moved into a new house in New York, about the furniture and other supplies she has sent to her. Mott also gives news of family and friends, briefly mentions a meeting in Bristol, and her daughter Maria's trip to the opera.
Date:
1863-12-15
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 relates recent news of friends and family to her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord. Makes brief mention of attending lectures by the "Freedman's and Union League committees" and letting them take the lead in activism.
Date:
1864-04-22
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her children and grandchildren
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her children and grandchildren
Description:
Likely sent to specifically to Martha Mott Lord and Lord's family, who relocated from Lucretia Mott's house in Cheltenham to New York City in October of 1863. Mott gives news of a recent visit to see her cousins Rebecca Bunker Chase, Caroline Chase Stratton, and others in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Laura Stratton (Caroline's daughter) is soon to marry Fitzhugh Birney, and Caroline is making plans to move to Germantown. Most of the letter describes Mott's shopping for furniture, dishes, etc. in Philadelphia.
Date:
1863-10-20
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her children
Description:
Lucretia Mott discusses her trip to New York City to visit her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord and son-in-law George Lord; she dwells in particular on her trip to the city, what she has been doing to help her daughter around the house, and the new house that Pattie and George plan to move into.
Date:
1864-04-30
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. Mott discusses house furnishings with her daughter Martha, who recently moved out of Mott's house and is now living in New York City. She advises her daughter on books to buy, saying that "the Koran is worth owning" but urging her to "avoid foolish novels"; discusses her own reading habits. Briefly references a meeting to aid "contraband" (formerly enslaved people who escaped to Union lines) in Missouri; and comments briefly on her own drinking habits.
Date:
1863-11-01
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. Written over a note from James Miller McKim to James and Lucretia Mott on the stationery of the National Freedmen's and Union Commission. Most of the letter discusses furnishings in the new house of Anna and Edward Hopper, Lucretia Mott's daughter and son-in-law. Mott also passes on other news of family/friends and mentions a discussion she had with McKim about the Freedmen's Union.
Date:
1866-04-22
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and family
Description:
Written from Roadside. Mott tells her daughter (who recently moved away to New York City) about recent social calls, furniture shopping, and her cousin Caroline Stratton's plans to move to Philadelphia.
Date:
1863-10-22
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and family
Description:
Written from Roadside. Mott tells her daughter (who has recently moved away to New York City) about the furniture Mott has found for her new home and discusses other home decorating matters. She talks at length about possible treatments for her granddaughter Fanny's back pain, comparing the options offered by different doctors as well as the opinion of abolitionist Robert Purvis. Mott also expresses reluctance about Susan B. Anthony's lecturing plan: "I'm past entering into any new movement."
Date:
1863-10-23
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Mott's daughter has recently relocated from Roadside to New York City, and Mott discusses furniture shipments and house furnishings with her.
Date:
1863-11-05
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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