J[ermain] W[esley] Loguen to Frederick Douglass, February 4, 1859

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

DEAR DOUGLASS:—I wish to acknowledge through Frederick Douglass's Paper the following donations from kind trans-Atlantic friends:

Birmingham L. A. Society...........£3 0 0 Coventry do do ........... 2 10 0 Dublin do do ........... 14 0 0 From two young Irish ladies........ 1 0 0

In behalf of my fugitive brethren and sisters that are constantly calling at our house for assistance to get to some place of safety, I thank these kind friends, one an all, for their remembrance of my suffering people in this the time of great distress and in this tangible way.—The donations from the ladies in Birmingham and Coventry came by the way of our kind and every true friend Miss Julia Griffiths. We have had occasion before to feel grateful to friends in this far-off land, through the kindness of this dear friend of the slave, Miss Griffiths. What we should have done in these hard times, I know not, if it had not been for the kind endeavors of Miss G. in behalf of our poor people. May God bless her, and all those kind friends, in their labors of love, we will ever pray, and the blessing of hundreds of fugitives struggling for liberty will be theirs. Yours, as ever,

J. W. LOUGEN, Ag't. U. G. R. R

SYRACUSE, Feb. 4, 1859.