so small a sum in this letter, but some way wish to send L2 of this amount for thy own use, and the other L2 to your Vigilance Committee.  It so happens that we have not anything for the better from our own Anti-slavery Association this year.  Very sincerely thy friend, my dear husband uniting in kind regards,

    Anna H. Richardson.

    WOOD HOUSE, near NEWCASTLE, May 3, 1860. [An occasional rural
    residence of ours, five miles from home.]

To William Still:—­I have again to thank thee, dear friend, for a kind letter and for the perusal of three letters from thy fugitive friends.  It must be truly cheering to receive such, and their warm and affectionate gratitude must be as rich reward for many anxieties.  I conclude that it is not necessary for those letters to be returned, but should it be so, let me know, and I will be on the lookout for some private opportunity of returning them to Philadelphia.  Such occur now and then.  We like to see such letters.  They assist us to realize the condition of these poor wanderers.  I am sorry for not having explained myself distinctly in my last.  The promised L4 were for the fugitives, being gathered from various Christian friends, who gave it me for their particular use.  But we wished half of that sum to be laid out (as on a previous occasion), at thy own discretion, irrespective of the Vigilance Committee.  I have now another L1 to add to the latter half, and would gladly have enclosed a L5 note in this envelope, but we are rather afraid of sending the actual money in letters, and our London bankers do not like to remit small sums.  I shall continue to watch for the first opportunity of forwarding the above.

Our valued friend, Samuel Rhoads, has been lately in heavy sorrow.  I send this through his medium, but fear to add more lest I should make his letter too heavy.  With our united kind regards, very truly, thy friend,

    Anna H. Richardson.

    54, Westmoreland Terrace, June 8, 1860.

Dear Friend:—­William Still:—­It is a good plan to send me these interesting communications.  The letter to your coadjutor at Elmira, reached us a few days since.  That depot must not be allowed to go down if it be possible for this to be prevented.  Perhaps J.W.  Jones might be encouraged by a gift from England, that is, by a little aid from this country, expressly for the fugitives, being put into his hands.  If you think so, I am sure my friends would approve of this, and you can use your own discretion in giving him our gifts in one sum or by detached remittances.  The greatest part of the money on hand, has come in from the private perusal of thy interesting letters, and my friends simply gave my husband and me their money for the fugitives, leaving the exact disposal of it to our own discretion.  It has struck me of late, that if I may be allowed to print occasional extracts from thy letters (with other Anti-slavery