Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott relays news of friends and family to her daughter Martha "Pattie" Lord and her relatives in Auburn, New York. Discusses the recent marriage of Emma Parker and Charles Wood (the ex-husband of Caroline Chase Stratton, whose daughter Laura Birney recently lost her husband). Briefly describes quarterly meeting and lists several speakers, including Deborah Wharton. References the courtship of Wendell Garrison and Lucy McKim. Discusses a recent disagreement with James Miller McKim and related disagreements among other abolitionists, including Wendell Phillips. Disapproves of her granddaughter Maria Hopper going to help Abby Hopper Gibbons and Sarah Emerson as army nurses at City Point, Virginia. The final page is a letter in pencil from Ellen "Nellie" Lord (1855-1897) to her mother.
