# Tier 1 — Lucretia Coffin Mott, Nantucket chapter (b. 1793) Adult fame is Philadelphia, Seneca Falls, the 1840 World’s Antislavery Convention. The island product is **how Nantucket made her**, plus the visits home after the Hicksite split. She left at about thirteen for Nine Partners. She always called herself a Nantucket woman. That claim is the brief — and the limit. Do not build a general-purpose Mott chatbot that happens to mention the island. ## Why Tier 1 - Enormous published correspondence and sermons. - Childhood sources are thinner than Mitchell’s diaries but enough for a dated Nantucket self: Fair Street house (still standing in early accounts), mother’s shop, Brookes slave-ship diagram at school, Elizabeth Coggeshall’s preaching, grandmother Ruth Coffin Folger’s discipline. - Dual with Anna Gardner (who stayed) is the civic payoff. - Legal: writings PD; Swarthmore controls manuscript images. ## Primary material ### A — Own words | Source | Where | Island use | |---|---|---| | *Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott*, ed. Beverly Wilson Palmer (U. Illinois, 2002) | Print; many letters also in TriCo/Swarthmore digital | Voice. Includes an 1866 letter describing travel *to Nantucket* and family visits (A00182122, digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu). | | *James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters*, Anna Davis Hallowell (1884) | PD | Family-assembled; note editorial smoothing. | | Mott Manuscripts, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore, SFHL-MSS-035 | 7 boxes; correspondence with Garrison, Stanton, Nathaniel Barney, etc.; 1840 England diary | Adult mind. License reproductions. | | Sermons and *Discourse on Woman* | Published; PD | Rhetoric, not childhood anecdote. | | Recollections she told children/grandchildren | Embedded in Hallowell and later biographies | Brookes diagram at age four; hayride punishment; lightning strike on the first house. Treat as remembered, not contemporaneous diary. | ### B — Nantucket record - Nantucket Friends meeting minutes; real estate; Nine Partners yearbooks. - Robert J. Leach, “Ancestors for Lucretia Coffin Mott,” *Historic Nantucket* (July 1975). - Nathaniel and Eliza Starbuck Barney (cousins; Seneca Falls); island Hicksite meeting on Main Street after 1831 — she preached there on visits. - Anna Gardner’s island career as the stay-behind counterpart. ### C — cutoff Pick a **dated self** and print it on the splash screen: - **1806 girl leaving for Nine Partners** (thin A; strong place), or - **1840s minister visiting Nantucket** (thick A; she can discuss Garrison, the 1840 convention, but not 1848 as future if you freeze her earlier), or - **1866 visitor** (the surviving letter home). Do not let one body slide across seventy years of opinions without labeling the year. ### Likeness - William H. Furness portrait, 1858 (FHL Swarthmore). - Joseph Kyle portrait (Smithsonian NPG). - Fair Street house described in Medford Historical Society Papers (house still noted as standing in that account). Birth house gone; lightning memory only. Early Nantucket Lucretia has almost no childhood portrait. An 1858 face on an 1806 body is a lie unless labeled “adult remembering.” ## Partners | Org | Role | |---|---| | **Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore** | Manuscripts and portraits. | | **NHA** | Island genealogy, Barney connection, Hicksite site. | | **Nantucket Meeting / Quaker historians** | Discipline, women’s ministry, 1831 split. | | **Atheneum** | Reform lecture culture she belongs next to, even if the 1841 Douglass night is not hers. | | **Anna Gardner scholars** (NHA “Road from Abolition to Suffrage”) | Dual partner. | ## Programs 1. **Fair Street childhood** (short, place-based AR + kiosk). Mother’s shop, Brookes plate, hayride. Heavy beat 3, because A is memory. 2. **Hicksite visit.** Dated sermon-length monologue in the register of her published ministry, set on a return to Nantucket. 3. **Dual: Mott × Anna Gardner.** One left, one stayed. School integration and suffrage as island problems, not Philadelphia abstractions. 4. **Do not** ship “Douglass AI” as a sidekick. If 1841 appears, it is Gardner/Pompey’s room. ## Production steps 1. Choose the dated self in writing with the historian. This decision drives wardrobe, corpus, and cutoff. 2. Build A from Palmer + Hallowell + the 1866 Nantucket letter first. Add Swarthmore only under license. 3. Map Fair Street / Main Street Hicksite site / Atheneum as AR anchors. 4. Likeness: adult portraits for the visiting-minister build; interpretive youth body only with a label. 5. Voice: plain speech, Quaker *thee/thou* used as she actually used it in letters (not costume-shop Quaker). 6. Dual Gardner corpus in season 1b (Gardner’s own essays and the school fight record). 7. Eval with Quaker historians and Black Nantucket historians — Mott’s Nantucket includes the Meeting’s early anti-slavery stand *and* the labor system that preceded it. ## Budget band $120k–$220k for a single dated self + AR street anchors. Dual with Gardner adds $40–80k (second corpus, second wardrobe, shared engine).