First Convention Ever Called to Discuss the Civil and Political Rights of Women, The, Seneca Falls, NY, July 19, 20, 1848."
Pamphlet: "The First Convention Ever Called to Discuss the Civil and Political Rights of Women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848.” [NP, ND].
Pamphlet: 5-1/2" x 8-11/16"; 8 pp.; printed self-wrappers (stapled); browning to front and rear; first leaf slightly separated along left edge; creased where folded (twice, horizontally); short closed tear to right edge (first leaf, not affecting text); offsetting to pp. 6/7 where newspaper article laid in; "Resolutions" pencilled at lower margin first leaf (in the hand of Abbie B. Rice); about very good.
The pamphlet prints the announcement of the Seneca Falls Convention ("A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N.Y…), "The Declaration of Sentiments" ("When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied…”), "Resolutions," and "The First and Closing Paragraphs of Mrs. Stanton's Address, Delivered at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848 (I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you at this time, having never before spoken in public, were I not nerved by a sense of right and duty…).”
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