B-250-12
Philadelphia 5 mo 10th 1824
My beloved Aunt
I believe thou art sensible, that
nothing but my many engagements, would so long, have
prevented, thy poor neice, from resuming her pen to write
to one, so often the companion of my silent moments,
and tho I spend many hours alone, I seldom feel lonely
the number of our visitors, unless on particular occasions,
is very small. A week previous to the yearly Meeting,
cousin Mary Rotch, and Mary Newhall, arrived in
the city, and on the next day, attended Arch street
Meeting, where they spoke, but Mary Newhall was
spoken to, in the midst of her communication, in a
severe manner, and requested to take her seat, she
answered mildly, that she did not wish to intrude,
on any one, and proceded, she met with rebukes in all
the meetings she attended, accept Green street, where
the Elders have not so much influence, on account
of their conduct to Elias Hicks, as the meeting have
not unity with them. On first day following the
yearly Meeting, at Arch street Jess J Kersey broke up
the meeting while she was speaking, just after she had
commenced, the friend next him refused his hand, but
he took his hat and walked to the next, so that the
meeting was in a hubbub, some going out, some
crouching to get near Mary,and others kept their seats,
till she was done.
The address of an interesting young woman in our
Yearly Meeting, who has met with some trials I think
very applicable in the present day, that she believed
if we were willing, to go forth with the wine, and oil,
and heal the wounds of those he had wounded, that
