Holograph, signed.

Richard Davis Webb presumably wrote this letter to Caroline Weston. Richard D. Webb has been engrossed by two subjects: "the recollection of my great domestic loss and the affairs of America." [The "great domestic loss" is a reference to the death of Richard Davis Webb's wife, Hannah Webb, who died on July 16, 1862.] He has just finished printing the second, enlarged edition of Professor John Elliott Cairnes's The Slave Power: It's Character, Career, & Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest. Webb wishes that wealthy Americans, such as Caroline Weston's uncle (Joshua Bates?) and Mr. Peabody would endeavor to make the book better known. Richard D. Webb considers the it "the ablest book on the subject ever written." He mentions De Witt's Jefferson and Democracy and the correspondence between Edwin Loring and Charles Loring. [The Correspondence on the Present Relations Between Great Britain and the United States, by Edwin W. Field and Charles Greely Loring was published in Boston, 1862.]