Rebecca Buffum Spring autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Eagleswood [Perth Amboy, N.J.], 10 February [1860]
Description:
At [George] Sennott's request is getting up a petition for [Aaron Dwight] Stevens. Is surprised at the decision of the Brown girls to go to Concord. Mounted with this is the heading for a petition addressed to the Governor of Virginia [John Letcher] asking him to spare Stevens's life.