Letter from Lucretia Mott, Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.], to Maria Weston Chapman, 5 mo[nth] 13th [day] 1840
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Holograph, signed.In this letter, Lucretia Mott comments on the new book, Despotism in America, which she has "since read with deep interest." [Despotism in America is by Richard Hildreth, Boston, 1840.] Lucretia Mott wishes David Lee Child and Lydia Maria Child would settle in Philadelphia. Anna M. Hopper wishes that Mrs. Child would open a school for young children, but Lucretia Mott is more concerned that she should be sent to the World's Convention. In reference to the division between the New and Old Organizations, Lucretia Mott hopes that J. G. Whittier will have his eyes opened, but he "seems to be blinded." She describes an incident in Smyrna, Delaware, where D. Neall was tarred and feathered.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Child, David Lee 1794 1874
- Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
- Correspondence
- Hildreth, Richard 1807 1865
- History
- Hopper, Anna M
- Massachusetts
- Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
- Neall, Daniel 1784 1846
- Slaver
- United States
- Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892
- Women
- Women Abolitionists