[Dec. 22, 1845]

please send me fifty Books so that I may have them by tuesday night—with or without the portrait I wrote the enclosed in great haste It is a rough jornal, I am glad to hear from that mouth full of teeth

I got the American letters—youWebb, Richard Davis

Richard D. Webb was a Garrisonian abolitionist from Dublin, Ireland, whom Douglass met on his first trip to the British Isles in 1845. Originally a Quaker, he turned toward Unitarianism as his antislavery passions became more radical. A successful printer, Webb guided the small, but intensely active, Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society in Dublin, of which James Haughton and his family were also members. Webb printed the organ of the British Garrisonian abolitionist movement, the Anti-Slavery Advocate, out of his Dublin-based office. The British Garrisonians were active pamphleteers, and Webb's own The National AntiSlavery Societies of England and the United States (1852) was one of the most confident and able statements of the Garrisonian cause to appear on either side of the Atlantic. Temperley, British Antislavery, 210, 212-13, 227, 237, 239, 244, 252-54, 256, 259; Taylor, British and American Abolitionists, 241-44, 248, 258-59, 293-94. sent me—A hundred thousand thanks for your promptness—My letters were good letters my family are all well, Another letter from Shortt this morning I dine tomorrow with your old friend Pimm He says you are an odd fish—tis no Slander, I wrote to Maria Waring today

Most truly yours

F. Douglass