Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec.
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Image 1 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Washington DC Oct 13 1882 Rev CS Smith Md Dear sir I am very much obliged by a copy of your monograph read at the Tricentennial celebration of the ordination of Rt…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 2 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. must ever be while mind is above matter and skill is superior to brute force If the Colored people will continue to strut about in the mental old cloths of the white…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 3 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 11 Mathewson at Penn Rd Oct 14 1882 My Dear Friend This Sunday aft I am all alone Minnie must have missed her train last night unless she was sick She goes…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 4 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. the holthus picture I thank you for telling me your motive for exacting the promise from me in regard to the letters But in very truth I told you the only reasons…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 5 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. always a word of remembrance for them whenever you feel like giving it to them You have said nothing of your old companion cigar for a long time do you still abjure…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 6 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 11 Mathewson Dr Paw RI Oct 22 1882 My Dear Friend Your letter and its enclosure came safely and in due time I have answered it in my thought many times but…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 7 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. goes to them tomorrow to stay until the family are fairly moved and settled in their new home almost in Pawtucket they all seem cheerful about it but these changes are perfectly…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 8 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. B sheet life yours has been You would be interested in this Mr Carpenter and I hope you will see him before he leaves the country I think it was he who…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 9 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 2 SHEET Monday I had a hope that this mornings post would bring me a line from you and it did so for which I thank you From the former sheet you…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 10 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. would aid you to understand your own and misreading it as you did perhaps more surely than if you had read read it rightly you did come to understand your own and…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 11 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. as illustrated at Andover of the Unity Convention at Saratoga and by the New York Brooklyn Ass in their cause with the Beecher Though finding Evolution in all these instances he scourged…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 12 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. and had pupils enough to make us feel easy about our expenditures we should be quite content As it is she is not able to walk much or sit at the Piano…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 13 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 130 Rye Hill Newcastle England Oct 30t 1882 Dear friend F Douglas I may truly say I have seldom glanced at the signature of a letter which gave me such heartfelt pleasure…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 14 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 2 by the lapse of time and all that the associations connected with the thrilling events that once agitated our minds remain as undimmed as ever Yes the stranger who once crossed…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 15 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 4 I hope a Boarding House will never be my lot but that always a quiet peaceful home may be the position of my old age My present arrangements look pleasing and…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 16 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Pray excuse the Blunders in my pages I have numbered them so that they may be more easily followed I have been interrupted in writing My Brother Sister have not yet seen…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 17 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 7 How time speeds on and with it new interests I was astonished by my nephew now a husband and father as they are one day when I mentioned the name Who…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 18 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. 6 go on now they have it much in their own hand and with them it will I believe be impossible How thy oft repeated words have come true But set them…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 19 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Pray excuse this inexcusably poor letter my maid went out to get some writing papers and she has brough me this very tough kind I could hardly write upon it I hope…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 20 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. decipherable It is too long to write over again My sister had heard of Mr Grants death with concern a good man gone to rest
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 21 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED DP LESTER ATTORNEY AT LAW Oswego City NY Nov 5th 1889 Hon Frederick Douglass Washington DC My dear sir I trust you will pardon me for…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 22 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. D P LESTER ATTORNEY AT LAW COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Oswego City N Y 1882 which those names were wont to inspire for the sacred cause with which they were…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 23 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. THE PIONEER AND ONLY RELIABLE LEGAL LETTER SHEET DIRECTORY PUBLISHED IN AMERICA CIRCULATING 600000 COPIES ANNUALLY BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Chart of American Attorneysâ Association ESTABLISHED 1874 Composed of Leading Commercial Lawyers permanently…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 24 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Newcastle on Tyne England Nov 14 82 Dear Friend Frederick Douglass I have just finished reading the new Life of F Douglass and I feel as if I must tell thee how…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 25 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. We need something more than a theoretical idea of what slavery was The world can never be rightly understood without this dreadful part of its history can be taken into account The…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 26 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. and have had many little connecting links filled up which were wanting before together with some newer relating connected with later times to complete the chain that I am well pleased to…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 27 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. and yet whose behests I at one time feared so much I was so afraid he would be so exasperated with all that had been said that he would not grant the…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 28 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Let me hope too that time and reflection are binding up the wound of affliction as nothing else can do and that thy young people around thy hearth are doing what they…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 29 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. will thank thee very sincerely for supplying such a book I scarcely know how the present generation in a country like England may read such a book but we of the past…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 30 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. time after time in our midst and after these Charles L Remand Wm Wells Brown and Fred Douglas came and verified more than all that had been spoken the spirits were stirred…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 31 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. Newcastle on Tyne England Nov 14 1882 Dear friend Frederick Douglass I have just finished reading the new Life of F Douglass and I feel as if I must tell thee how…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 32 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. a renewedly awakened interest From my last letter it will be seen how quickly one generation follows another with new interests and new pursuits and how soon past events pass from the…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 33 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. heartstrings wrung with the tales of its horrors time after time and have lived through the events as they occurred must read the book with no small degree of interest So at…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 34 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. time after time in our midst and afterthese Charles L Remond Wm Wells Brown and Fred Douglass came and verified more than all that had been spoken Our spirits were stirred to…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 35 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. made anything like the same deep impression on my heart as that did and to this day it rises up as vividly as ever I think Thou willnot wonder then that as…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 36 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. My Brother Henry Sister Anna are as well as usual All friends who knew thee are glad to hear tidings through thy letter to me and feel for thee in thy sorrowful…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 37 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. dates in thy book but have lent it at present I cannot tell whether Mary thou or Wm W Beden were here first I think we did not see thee in New…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 38 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. thy present vocation It is time to rest after labor Let me hope too that time and reflection are binding up the wound of affliction as to nothing else can do and…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 39 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. the morning and was sent for to find him a lifeless corpse A dreadful shock which caused my very nature to reel as it were Yet I was comforted in the assurance…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10
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Image 40 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1882, Oct.-Dec. South Wolfeboro NH November 22 1882 My Dear old friend Douglass I now wright to let you know that five days after I parted with you I found my self safe at…
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1882-10