[draft] New York Decr 13th 1830 Dear Sir The Secretary of the Colonization society, in Washington, has informed me of your intention to visit England, to solicit aid, from the Philanthropic and benevolent part of that community, in favor of the Object of the institution, and has requested me to give you letters of introduction, to promote the success of your mission. To you I will write withoureserve, because you know the interest I take, in the extirpation of slavery throughout the Ustates. Regarding the offices I have held, I feel a delicacy, in appealing to the benevolence & generosity of the people of another country, to give us aid, to extricate us, from any internal & domestick evil, with which we may be burden'd. I enclose you however a letter, which you are at liberty to show, to the characters mention'd in it, and which may render you all the service, which the introduction desired, might obtain. My long absence from that country, is an additional motive with me, not to [illegible], on any material effect, which letters from me might produce. I wish you to inform the Secretary, that I have endeavord to promote your object, in the only way that I could. With the best wishes for your health & welfare, & success of your mission, I am, dear Sir sincerely yours, James Monroe