Washington D.C. Aug. 23. 1873.

Gentlemen:

I am happily your debtor for the Farewell—a fine chromo Lithograph. Several of my friends have been very favorably impressed by it and consider it a fine specimen of Art. For my own part, inheriting from some of my unknown progenetors a large fondness for out door life—and for out door views—and having from some cause, a warm side for Landscape paintings, I very easily fell in love with this "farewell" picture. Altogether with my five or six Chromos all from your Fine Art Publishing House in Boston, I feel quite rich in pictures. I would venture a word of special praise for the Farewell if my judgement in such matters were worth anything and if such praise were not liable to be thought a cheap way of paying for a future gift in the same line. Please accept my thanks for the picture and also for the help you are rendering to civilization through the Fine Arts.

Yours Very Truly

Frederick Douglass

L. Prang & Co.