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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord and George Lord
Description
Written from Eddington, the farm where Lucretia Mott's daughter Elizabeth Cavender and son-in-law Thomas Cavender lived from 1860-1865; the paper also bears a printed a circular advertising the speeches of Mrs. Emily Shaw (possibly Mott's granddaughter Emily Mott Shaw). Lucretia Mott gives her daughter Martha ("Pattie") Lord and son-in-law law George Lord various news of friends and family and discusses recent visitors they have had. She makes brief mention of various topics, including her children's trips to the opera, a female doctor who is using mesmerism to treat Mott's granddaughter Fanny, a recent "League Meeting" held by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a family member's recent assistance in a childbirth and subsequent interaction with a male physician. Mott also discusses the furniture she will be sending to the Lords, who recently moved into a new house in New York.
