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Letter from Lucretia Mott to May Wright Sewall.

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The name of the young sister from Indiana had passed from my memory - the pleasant impression remains. Your letter would have been answered earlier but for the unsteady hand of 87 dread the pen. The cast thou enquires for is not now to be had in this city. Please accept the accompanying - thy old - very sincere friend. Shall I add my autographic motto? "Truth for authority--not authority for truth."Lucretia Mott (1793-1888), Quaker minister, reformer, abolitionist. Lucretia Mott was very involved with both women's rights and the anti-slavery movement. She was a founder and president of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the American Equal Rights Association, and her home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When she travelled to London in 1840 to attend a world antislavery convention, she was denied recognition as a delegate because she was a woman. At this convention she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton with whom she developed a friendship. Together, the two women called the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y. in 1848.
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