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Holograph, signed.
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Document identity
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qz20vg30s
label
Partial letter from Joseph Ricketson, [New Bedford, Mass.], to Debora Weston, [1861 April?]
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document
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1
Source metadata
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qz20vg30s
contentType
document
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normalized
title
Partial letter from Joseph Ricketson, [New Bedford, Mass.], to Debora Weston, [1861 April?]
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["[April 1861?]"]
year
1861
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3133959
creators
Ricketson, Joseph, 1815-1876
Weston, Debora, 1814-
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Ricketson, Joseph, 1815-1876
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Potter, Reverend
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Correspondence
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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pageCount
1
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extent
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 in.
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yes
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sf268508b
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ht24xg10q
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42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
notes
Holograph, signed.
The beginning of this letter is missing.
Joseph Ricketson writes that Lieutenant Paine was ordered to Fort Schuyler near New York. Benjamin R. Almy, who purchased Thomas R. Robeson's house, and who is "one of our wealthy and most excellent citizens," died suddenly. Joseph Ricketson says "our good city has been very quiet this winter---there has not been a single party to my knowledge." According to a report, this is the day on which Fort Sumter is to be attacked. Major [Robert] Anderson has acted nobly and humanely thus far in not occasioning the loss of live[s]." Joseph Ricketson expresses the convictions of his Quaker faith. He is thankful to have Mr. Potter as his preacher. He regrets that William Lloyd Garrison is so feeble. An Englishman who heard Wendell Phillips a few weeks ago pronounced him the greatest orator he ever heard.
pubPlace
[New Bedford, Mass.]
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qz20vg30s
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document
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1
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0
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photo
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