Maria Webb ALS to A[nna] M. C. Barnes, October 10, 1859

in view is the sustaining
of the Frederick Douglass
Paper so far as the Ladies
of your society believes
it requires your pecuniary
aid - Should any residue
be left of course you
will use your own dis=
cretion in its application
Dr Cheevers lectures the Syracuse fugitves and
Wm. Bailey's paper are all hath
excellent objects & also the Syracuse fugitives - But with
regard to the latter I should
say that in a letter I recently
had from my friend Anna
Richardson of Newcastle she
mentioned having just
sent all £100 one hundred pounds
to assist Mr Baileys paper
in its present difficulty.

For my own part I hold