Aberdeen 2d.

March—1846

My Dear FriendWebb, 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. . I shall be in Glasgow on on the fourteenth—and shall remain there and in its vicinity several days—You will do me a kindness—by sending all the books you have ready to that Place, unless you have more than five hundred. I think you had better not bind up more than one thousand now as I doubt very much whither I can get rid-of more the coming six months they go very slow. My first meeting in this place will take place this evening—we shall probably hold three here—and from here return to Montrose—hold one more meeting there, touch at Dundee—hold a meeting—at Perth and hold another meeting—and from

there return to Glasgow.

My kind regards as to Mrs. Webb. in haste

truly yours

F Douglass