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

in supporting the Standard
and also the continuous
aid that is freely given
to sustain the Liberator
and that without such
aid neither of these papers
could ever have been kept
up, at once indicates that
the same must apply
to the F D paper.
Frederick Douglas's friends
have urged on him and
with good cause that
he should not allow
funds raised by his personal
exertions in other directions
to be absorbed by his paper
or get sunk in its respon=
sibilites but that he
should rather let it go
down than sacrifice
to its support what he
makes outside the paper
and which should be for
the advantage of his family

{The following text is written perpendicularly in the right margin of this page.}

In saying the fugtives amply supplied first and the F Douglass
paper afterwards I have stated what I regard as
the prevailing sentiment among Irish contributors
I believe however there are some in England
who would reverse that order and say the
F Douglass paper first and the fugitives second
I should not be surprised if you would find