Brooklyn, N.Y. 8 Dec '56 Evening

Frederick Douglass, Esq. Rochester

My dear Sir,

I have just rec^d your note dated Nov. 29^th enclosing a draft for $250. Enclosed is the [illegible] of your letter. You [illegible] it has been marked at some P.O. "[Dollars?] for [illegible]". What this means I can not say. My address is Brooklyn [illegible], tho' letters directed to me at N. Y. come regularly, though! [illegible] not every day [illegible]. I regret this delay, & am sorry you have not [illegible] your [illegible]. The boxes shall be forwarded. [illegible] requested them to be forwarded to me. The English corresponded to Gerrit but they be sent to you. The expense by [illegible] will be more than by some other way, but that it saves time. I wrote you on the 6^th & will wait for an answer to that letter I wonder you did not write again because the [illegible] not acknowledged.

You speak of a box from New Castle. It was shipt by a sailing vessel from L pool with 2 other boxes one of which is from Birmingham & the other from Liverpool. I will try to observe yr directions. I am sure these 2 packages were shipt by a sailing vessel, as I fear the passage will be long. I will endeavor to find them the CH: here, when the vessel arrives, as much as possible.

I have nothing more to say about the Resolution I love you too well to quarrel with you. If any man has a right half as surely toward slave holders it is the man who has suffered so much at their hands. But that of the Redeemer & the worshipers [illegible] And [illegible] by the not headed [illegible]

Truly yours

L. Tappan.

I fear you put the letter into the [illegible] P.O. without putting a stamp on to the envelope, [illegible]