Wm. DUNN & Co.

95. Bishopsgate St. (Within)

London 23 Nov 1877

E.C.

Dear Sir

I inclose Letter of Credit on New York and dft for the Balance $110 Currency in your favor which I will thank you to cash & apply in aiding such colored congregations as you know to be most deserving of help. As to how it is to be disposed of I trust be left mainly to you but the general grounds are this those aided should be what is usually known as Evangelical, thus they would be requiring assistance more it may be than many others, and thus they should be doing what they can to help themselves. Personally I am but partial to Episcopacy but disposed to aid equally all the Orthodox creeds.

I was in Washington in Nov and January last and have since much regretted that it did not occur to me to call on you. I am much interested in the present condition and future of your people and would have been glad to have availed of your opinion information & opinions on

these points. A fairly extended tour in the States from October to March more than 3 months of which was spent in Washington & the States south and west of Washington gave me many opportunities of observation and on the whole I was much pleased with the many and prospects of the men with whom (colored I mean) I was brought into contact. that they seem but all in my case that could be wished is unfortunately true of all men but having in mind all that they have suffered in themselves and in their Ancestors much to be encouraged with.

Perhaps you can [send?] receipt of this to me at the address I give below. It may interest you to know that I have a very vivid recollection of seeing you there some time about the year 1845

Yours faithfully

W^m B BarbourBarbour, William Boyle

William Boyle Barbour (22 October 1828 – 13 May 1891) was a Scottish merchant and Liberal politician.

Camphill

PaisleyPaisley, Scotland