Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and family

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Date created	1863-12-20
Creator	Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Description	Written over the course of several days, in part from Roadside. Lucretia Mott explains why she has not had time to not write to her sister lately and passes on news of friends and family. In addition to briefly discussing the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an antislavery fair hosted by Elizabeth Perot, Mott offers lengthier comments on the wedding of Ann Mather, her family's Christmas cooking for the African-American soldiers at the nearby Camp William Penn, other Christmas arrangements, the illnesses of various friends from the antislavery movement, and the wedding of her cousin Laura Stratton to Fitzhugh Birney, an Episcopalian ("I never witnessed a wedding in a church before, save a Quaker meeting"). Mott also makes brief allusions to her views on war and her own mortality, and a George Ward's employment of African-American farmers.
Size	6 pages
Type	Text
Subjects	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 \| Christmas cooking \| Camp William Penn (La Mott, Pa.) \| Household employees \| Weddings \| Abolitionists
Geographical location	Cheltenham (Pa.) \| Philadelphia (Pa.)
Language	English
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Local identifier	A00182027
Collection	Mott Manuscripts, SFHL-MSS-035 (explore contents)
Contributing institution	Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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