[Letter to] Dear Deborah
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1863
Place of publication: New Bedford, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865); United States; National anti-slavery standard; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Joseph Ricketson gives news of New Bedford people, especially Mr. Thomas Mandell's engagement to Miss Osgood. Arthur [perhaps the son of Daniel Ricketson] has been transferred from the gulf squadron to the Atlantic. Joseph has not been well; he was greatly disappointed at not being able to attend the convention and see the departure of the 54th Massachusetts [black] Regiment. The proceeds of [Wendell] Phillips's lecture before the Cooper's Institute will be invested in the sending of the Anti-Slavery Standard to soldiers. Joseph has suggested to Oliver Johnson three names of recipients, including the Rev. William Jackson, a black chaplain of the 54th Mass. Regiment, and Ruth Russels, head nurse at Hilton Head.