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in getting the remains of $200,
In consequence of freeing
their slaves, she & her sister
have been compelled to resort
to day labor - She has a fine
expressive face. It is indeed
noble to see two such young
girls make such a sacrifice
of their all.

Went to Spring St. Institute
only about 20 or 30 there, Mrs. R
decided not to speak -

The fates have indeed been
against us - not a meeting
have we had that has
paid expenses --

14. Friday,

Dined at James
Motts, Abbey Gibbons, Sarah
Grimpke, Thomas Curtis,
Griffith Cooper & Eliah Capron
& wife Rebecca, were invited
guests. An Uncle of Thomas
Motts wife, Mary Anna, from
Texas was there - We had a
very chat - spiritualism as
usual being the principal
topic, Mrs. Rose & Mr. Curtis
believing the spirit inseparable from
the body, of course, were on

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[April /54]

the unbelieving side. While Sarah Grimpke was all enthu
siasm in the faith, Eliah
Capron doesn't believe, he knows
there is a reality in spirits disem-
bodied, communicating with the
living, the rest of the compa
ny, with myself, seemed
not to know whether or not
there is any truth in these
modern manifestations.

Mrs. R. returned to the Doctor's
immediately after dinner to rest
for the evening meeting to be
held at Samson's Street Hall -
I remained & with Lucretia
Sarah Grimpke & myself on one
side & Thomas Curtis on the
other, had an argument as
to the probable future exis-
tence of the mind or soul
or spirit of man - not an
argument could one of us
bring, other than an intuitive
feeling that we were not to cease
to exist, when the body dies,
while Mr. Curtis reasoned, (as
has Mrs. Rose often done with me)
that all things in Nature die,

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