New York, Feb. 26th 1868

Miss Lucy Chase,
Richmond, Va.

Dear Friend,

Sectr Whipple has handed me your letter to him of the 23d int. wishing me to attend to your requests for Temperance Pledges &c., and to write to you, as he is so pressed with his correspondence that notwithstanding his desire to write he he is unable to do it promptly, which he regrets.

We are happy to circulate through you, and such other persons as you may select our Temperance Pledges, + Certificates We send you now by mail

50 Pledges for general signature
50 To Family – to be signed with [up-caret] by names of members of families they can be kept in the family safely;
50 Certificates –

We will send more when these are used, if you write for them. They are without charge to any one. The certificates, you percieve, can be filled in the blank for any Society Sunday School &c of any place. You will readily fill the blank appropriately as you find use for the Certifs.

We are grieved to learn that there is so much drinking of intoxicating liquors at Richmond by Freed, or other colored persons; and that in some other districts the tendency is strong in that deviation. We must do all in our power to arrest this great evil.

In my intercourse with colored people largely, at the north, I have not found them given to strong drink, or any drink that intoxicates as much as the laboring classes of whites. It will be a sad thing to every interest of liberty + humanity if they are led to indulge in even the first steps to drunkenness. Try to get all christian friends and well wishers of the people to labor with you in this good cause of preventing intemperance.

I am Dear Friend
Yours Truly
S.S. Jocelyn