Girtups

Bridport

Oct. 16. 1886

Dear Frederick Douglass,

Wont you accept these two brush portraits of Mrs Josephine Butler, as a remembrance of your visit to Bridport, in the same year that England at length accomplished the Repeal of the C.D.A.

I know your cosmopolitan interest in the cause of Social purity

You look to England just as we look to America for mutual support & sympathy in their great moral movements for right & justice. As you say great reform comes slowly, we must "learn to labour & to wait." Great people are not made in a da (Mrs Butler). Her father & family before her were reformers & [illegible] for the freedom of negro slavery, & this gave her impetus to protest against the worst forms of white slavery.

This [illegible] is a portrait of her when young, now she is worn with work & illness. I thought you would like one photograph for your wife & one for yourself. Pray give her my kind regards, & say adieu, next you visit Bridport, I shall hope to see you both at Girtups, & show you yourself in the seal skin hat!

Wishing you all antislavery success.

Believe me Yours sincerely

Gulielina Stephens