Search results

Thanks Parsons for his letter of condolence after the recent death of Collins's son Henry Hill Collins. Imagines Henry's welcome in heaven.

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."

Sarah Ash and Lydia Schofield were twin sisters. Ash writes about her grief over the death of her son Samuel Earl Ash, who had died in June of 1892.

Mary R. Parkman was the sister of Sergeant Theodore Parkman. Asks Abby to write to her mother Susan P. Parkman to comfort and console her over the recent death of her son Theodore Parkman. Discusses the mourning of her mother. Abby's son William Gibbons and Theodore died on the same day of the year.

Offers religious consolation for the death of James and Lydia's son. Briefly discusses the state of the Society of Friends and the widespread "departure from the ancient doctrines of our Early Friends, likely in reference to the Wilburite-Gurneyite controversy.

Mary R. Parkman was the sister of Sergeant Theodore Parkman. Thanks Abby on behalf of her mother Susan P. Parkman for her letter, which comforted her over the recent death of her son Sergeant Theodore Parkman. Discusses the mourning of her mother. Mentions her mother's work for the soldiers.

Eliza Schofield and Mary H. Child were Martha Schofield's sister and mother, respectively. Eliza passes on news of family and friends, including the return of invalids from Florida, the death of someone's child, and their reading. Child says she is glad her daughters "so grace their womanhood, instead of living without any aim in life as too many of the fair sex do." Describes Martha as "very independent, going where no other white ladies go, not a bit afraid of what the world will say."