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Philadelphia, Inventory of Estate of Thomas Evans, Deceased
Title:
Philadelphia, Deceased
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1901 February 20, Awbury, to My dear cousins
Title:
1901 February 20, to My dear cousins
Date:
1901-02-20
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1902 October 22, Woodbourne, to Dearest Mother
Title:
1902 October 22, to Dearest Mother
Date:
1902-10-22
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1901[?] March 15, Swallowfield, to My dearest Mother
Title:
1901[?] March 15, to My dearest Mother
Date:
1901-03-15
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1888 October 10, Philadelphia, to My dearest wife
Title:
1888 October 10, to My dearest wife
Date:
1888-10-10
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1820 August 29, Chester County, to Henry & Rachel, Philadelphia
Title:
1820 August 29, to Henry & Rachel, Philadelphia
Description:
Letters from two different authors on same page. The first is signed "Cara" presumably Caroline R. Yarnall. The second letter, which begins underneath the first, is signed "Thy Mother, M.C."
Date:
1820-08-29
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
Title:
I. Kratzenstein, etc.
Description:
Advertisement for I. Kratzenstein, Dealer in Notions, Trimmings, etc. This is the only card in the collection for this business, but not the only card for this artist. See bmcad070444001 (Isaac Nusbaum, Fine Woolen Goods) was also designed by Geo M. Hayes. Card with illustration of two cats cuddling in a chair, and another cat watching from behind a pail. Its caption reads: “Jealousy.”
Date:
1881
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
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 Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Date inferred from contents; Mott seems to have misdated several letters in spring 1867. Lucretia Mott writes about news of family and friends. She discusses the tensions between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, and other abolitionists based on whether to advocate for women's suffrage alongside African American suffrage; Mott mentions Susan B. Anthony, Aaron M. Powell, Stephen Foster, and Anna E. Dickinson. She also briefly speaks about collecting clothing for charity, mentioning that some might go to Harriet Tubman, and the failing health of her brother-in-law Benjamin Yarnall. Includes a recipe for making "red oil" to help heal "cuts and hurts."
Date:
1867-05-26
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 Auburn
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Auburn
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives her opinions on the proportions and furnishing of a house that her daughter-in-law Marianna will soon move into. She also mentions the upcoming wedding of her niece Ellen Wright and William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., as well as a recent disagreement among abolitionists involving Moncure D. Conway.
Date:
1864-09-06
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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