Monday morning. Mary, Mrs Philbrick & Miſs Paul have gone in James Mott's carriage with Mr Thoms to see the water works. St Ann(?) has just called looking very brisk and heaps more of folks are below. Now I will enter a little into the tactics of things. Mary Parker is in a pretty uncomfortable state of mind. Maria treats her with calm cold civility & nothing more. She acts otherwise as if she were not present. I treat her very kindly just as I should Mrs Joebell(?) were she here. Laugh & talk & feel perfectly free with her and treat her as well as can be but of (?) (?) with any talk about the deep things of the cause & I do not find her an authority to other folks. We are somewhat disgusted to find that the how(?) (?) Paul that Maria was not coming on as otherwise Susan would have waited for us. I suppose that we shall have a great chance of having Mary for the President and Lucretia Motts health puts it out of the question. We pressed Sarah Grimké last night very much but she does not think she knows enough of busineſs. All the Philadelphia people appear right as to Denialism, but not sufficiently interested. Baileigh is the same right minded person. Maria leaves no stone unturned to please the Denial appeal before the minds of all. Maria's seeding worries Mary, I suppose. Mary Chapman has been invited to the Grews(?) to take up her abode, but she manifested so much horror that the thing was even thought of, that I hardly knew whether she would be able to answer the invite civilly. I shall do up this letter at noon and will then add a few more words as the mail does not close till 5 o'clock(?) I dispatched my letter to Lucretia yesterday
