ALS, one page, 6.5 x 8.75, September 16, 1851. Letter to "Mr. Stone," in part: "A Woman's Rights Convention will be held in Worcester on the 15 and 16 of Oct. next. We are inviting to that convention, those of a progressive spirit, and whose influence we think would serve the cause. We are particularly desirous that you should be present…You have shown yourself a friend of human progress. But the cause of humanity will advance more rapidly, when society accords to Woman, and she recognizes for herself, a higher life, and knows that she too does duties to the world, other than to serve its food merely." In fine condition.
Stone was an key organizer of the first eight National Women's Rights Conventions; the second was hosted in Worcester on October 15-16, 1851. Lucretia Mott served as an officer of the meeting, Harriet Kezia Hunt and Antoinette Brown gave speeches, and a letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton was read. Wendell Phillips made a speech which was so persuasive that it would be sold as a tract, demanding: 'Throw open the doors of Congress; throw open those court-houses; throw wide open the doors of your colleges, and give to the sisters of the De Staëls and the Martineaus the same opportunity for culture that men have.'
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