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Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes that she has been invited by Paulina Wright Davis to the Second Decade Convention in Philadelphia, but she feels she cannot go. She alludes to the tensions between the Boston suffragists and the New York suffragists and feels that Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton would "do well to confine themselves to lecturing and holding independent conventions where they can be got up well - and let Boston do all the good it can with the able speakers and excellent Journal." She also mentions a "marriage and divorce law" that is "undergoing severe review."