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[Partial letter to Deborah Weston] [manuscript]

by: Ricketson, Joseph; Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient

Publication date: 1863

Topics: Weston, Deborah, b. 1814, Ricketson, Joseph, Women's rights, Slaves, Antislavery movements, Women abolitionists

Publisher: [New York?]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

The first page of this letter is missing

Joseph Ricketson writes: "The President has finally been obliged to proclaim Emancipation---would that it could have been stronger and immediate---snail like the cause is progressing---but I think surely." Ricketson comments on a Republican convention. He gives an account of his wife's illness. He mentions the "Woman's Rights" movement

Includes envelope with the delivery address: Miss D. Weston, Weymouth, Mass'tts