Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May

Image 1 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 4 Beck St Providence Jany 3rd 18878 Dear Mr Douglass Your interesting letter was duly received on my return from Louisville Ky where I enjoyed attending the meetings and becoming acquainted with some of the members of 416 S J Eddy to F Douglass 1 of 2

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Date: 1887-01

Image 2 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May The Association for the Advancement of Women After that I spent some time in Atlantic City so that I have not been at home long enough to really feel settled yet in my usual winter work I see Mrs Greene occasionally but not very often

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Date: 1887-01

Image 3 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May I am glad to know you are having such pleasant experience and I hope you will continue to be well and enjoy your visit abroad in every way Papa Amy join with me in kind regards to you and Ms Douglass and best wishes for Happy New Year for you Sincerely yours Sarah J Eddy

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Date: 1887-01

Image 4 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May The Association for the Advancement of Women After that I spent some time in Atlantic City so that I have not been at home long enough to really feel settled yet in my usual winter work I see Mrs Greene occasionally but not very often Her brother requires very close attention and I think she does not leave him often We had the pleasure…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 5 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Papas health is pretty good and he is active as ever with a good deal of business on hand and many resources My sister is as well as usual and busy about different things Mrs Spencer thought last night that she had improved in her pianoplaying since she heard her last some years ago

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Date: 1887-01

Image 6 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May I am glad to know you are having such pleasant experiences and I hope you will continue to be well and to enjoy your visit abroad in every way Papa Amy join with me in kind regards to you and Ms Douglass and best wishes for a Happy New Year for you Sincerely yours Sarah J Eddy

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Date: 1887-01

Image 7 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Hyde Park Mass Jan 8th 1887 Hon Fredrick Douglass Dear Sir Will you kindly favor me with your autograph The kindness will be greatly appreciated by Yours very truly Chester W Kelley 418

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Date: 1887-01

Image 8 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Shelbyville Ills Jan 121887 Hon F Douglas Dear Sir Will you please send me your autograph on the enclosed card and thus make a very valuable addition to my collection And Oblige Bernie A Colton 439

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Date: 1887-01

Image 9 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Springfield Ill 11887 Mr Douglas Dear Sir I am getting a collection of autographs and would like very much to have yours I send a blank card enclosed in an addressed envelope Yours Respectfully C S Preston 710 S 7th Street Springfield Ill 419

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Date: 1887-01

Image 10 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Rome Jan241887 My dear Lewis Your letter of 5th janwas this hour received by me in this the eternal city Not less welcome than yours was the letter of Dear Amelia It was good of you both to give me such a peep into affairs in Washington for no matter how splendid my present surroundings there is no place like home and there are…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 11 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 2 and from here we came to Rome We shall leave here Thursday of this week and shall go to Naples with the purpose to return to Rome in March and spend the month amid the wonders of the eternal city I was very very glad to have a line from Dear Amelia telling just the things I wanted to know I was sad…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 12 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Brimfield Feb 3rd 1887 My kind Friend Hon Frederick Douglass Long ago I wrote you some years in Hayes administration and received an answer and since then once or twice and have hoped to see Washington City DC long ere this and call on you as I knew you at my good Fathers home when I was a mere boy and very much later…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 13 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 2 The that time I wanted you to stop over night with us but you had engaged a bed at the Peoria House or some other place and could not well do so but the next morning I escorted you to our house and there with our old Bellringer so called of antislavery proclivities there we all met and breakfasted together and a trifle…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 14 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 3 I published in 1882 Mr Browns name mentioned as a great friend of yours at Elmwood Ill near here and near Peoria also also Mr Brown knows me as well as Ingersoll and Ingersoll as well as yourself has known me since a little boy at my Fathers house at Wrentham Mass when you first made your appearance after you got out of…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 15 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 4 home and home was open day or night for all our friends altho we have not the magnificent head of an Ingersoll but a heart and soul made on the same scale as welcome as his own and all the Browns put together even too old John Brown where his good soul is marching on I think in 1865 I met you first…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 16 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 5 Brown was poor when you first saw him at Elmwood or only starting but none is rich holding Government office and some other connections but now Cleveland has the power he is about climbing down and out A nice man he is and he could have told you of me as well as he knew Ingersoll as ourselves and since that time your…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 17 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 6 If I only had the early minutes of my dear Fathers life and what he has done in his small enfeebled way as well as all we have been with and seen our checker board of life would be mounted well up but our excly exchequer in life has been measurably a failure by others to travel to see and be with a…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 18 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May My Mr Mrs Frederick Douglass I took the enclosed letter of introduction on board the Orient but in various ways was caused to forget it I hope however that you have already made the acquaintance of an American US missionary brother have no further need of this introduction of mine But acquainted or not hand it over to them You however were better as…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 19 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May of the letters have the post mark Paris is addressed to Mrs Douglass says faire Suivre send it on On the envelope is printed L Eipreueoret Ingenieur Civil 9 Boulevard Sebastopol Paris The 2d letter is to yourself post mark St Neots the 3d is a postal card post mark Palermo They await your orders And now let me leave the business part of…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 20 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May than any other men in Egypt Please drop me a postal card on the reception of this so that I can know that you receive this Mrs Davis letter Last night we had a lecture on Jamaica from H Bk Consul General here Captain Hartwell who has resided eight years in that Island His voice was bad his cold worse than yours the first…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 21 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Genova 18 Feb 87 My dear Sir The very kind letter which Mrs Douglas addressed to us some time since has been left unanswered in consequence of my wife having had a severe attack of Rheumatism in her right arm hand which first seemed only a tri even now prevents her a pen We were so good news which 117

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Image 22 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Boccardo on his return to this city Then also the American Register has told of the success your lecture in Rome Naples had I do so wish he could have been there and heard it too I imagine you will be returning to Rome I hope you will let us know your moves I too shall soon have to pack up be off but…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 23 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Genova 18 feb 87 My dear Sir The very kind letter which Mrs Douglas addressed to us some time since has been left unanswered in consequence of my wife having had a severe attack of Rheumatism in her right arm hand which first seemed only a tri even now prevents her a pen We were so good news which 117

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Image 24 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May in the spring but suppose all countries are My wife of course joins me in kindest regards to both of you and trusting that you are in good health and will remain so I remain Sir Yours Sincerely Ma

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Date: 1887-01

Image 25 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Cleveland Ohio March 3 1887 W McKinlay Esq Dr Sir I had a conversation with R H this AM He acknowleged that he owed the note int that he could not now pay but agreed that he would at the end of this month pay 1000 on the note and balance next month at last end I take him at his word if he…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 26 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May LW EASTON PHARMACIST 108 UNION STREET ROCKLAND MASS Mar 21 1887 Hon Fredrick Douglas Washington DC Dear Sir Please not let your secretary put this in the waste b until you have fulfilled my desire I am collecting the autographs of the honorable gentleman of the US I have many and wish to add yours to my number Please honor me by inscribing your…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 27 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Proposed Memorial TO THE LATE Rev Henry Ward Beecher The memorial is restricted to the letters and literary contributions of only a limited number of the most distinguished men and women of America and Europe and will be published in noteworthy form for presentation to Mr Beechers family and as a lasting record for his friends and the public Edward W Bok Editor 320…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 28 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May already assured but we fully recognize the positive advantage it would receive by some tribute from your pen We are therefore particularly hopeful of a favorable response at your hands and this we most earnestly solicit As it is desired that the memorial be issued at as early a date as possible may I beg the further favor of as speedy a reply as…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 29 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May And cheer us with a few lines to the noble and patriotic dead Faithfully yours Edward W Bok

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Image 30 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 1 Washington April 10 1887 Dear Father Your letter dated March 24 I received yesterday It found us all well and pleased to hear from you Mr Trotter the new Recorder of Deeds is seriously sick with pneumonia Gerrit S Loguen has been appointed Deputy Recorder of deeds The Lawyers are much put out about it Senator Sherman is making a trip South In…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 31 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 2 Bradley is dead age 84 Langstons Son shot and killed another man this time in Petersburg Va You are not forgotten hear in Washington people are constantly inquiring for you and your health Lewis showed me a Power of Attorney from you to attend to your business and as he seemed a little put out because I held checks for drawn in your…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 32 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 3 free from cough He is a pretty hard case I dont know what is in store for him in the future any change that may come over him I think must be for the better He is a good hearted boy but it is next to impossible to get him to mind we are sending him to Emma Smith to teach she says…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 33 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 4 Charley Mr Mrs Clark you would be kept informed of matters there I dont like to appear to be looking around when others have been placed in charge Henry is still there and I think everything is going on all night My eye by constant use is beginning to trouble me After writing all day long it is two hours or more before…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 34 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 148 via Amedeo Monday morning April 11 1887 Dear Mr Douglass Thanks for your letter of without date Enclosed in Mr Douglass letter find a note of introduction for Mr Stanislaus Dorelli of 82 via Hamilton not far from your hotel The cameo cutter however is not Mr Dorelli but Mr Girardet who cuts for Mr D other dealers in jewelry precious stones Mr…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 35 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May from dealers cuts in his rooms Mr Dorelli is thoroughly honest reliable He is a great friend of Mrs Fletcher of me I am sorry that he does not speak English but his brother does Mr Girardet cuts the finest stone cameos of any person in the world Now let me give you a word of explanation about Cameos they are either of fine…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 36 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Washington DC April 141887 My dear Father I had not even dared to hope for a letter all to myself from you as I could share Lewis letters and I know there are many to whom you must write individually I am more than glad to have one however and I thank you I have thought much of Mrs Douglass since Charley told me…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 37 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May of her recovering I have not heard a word since but as she was at that time speechless I felt sure she must have passed away but since your letters came I have a doubt for if she had died at that time the announcement of that fact as well as her serious illness would have met you upon your return to Italy I…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 38 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May he is even now far from being out of danger He is boarding with Mrs Jacobs Mrs Amelia Bolling is assisting his wife in nursing him his doctors are Sammie Cook Rayburn and Lincoln Very likely someone has written you that Gerrit has been appointed Deputy Recorder He is not stopping with us but with the Browns on I St as he can reach…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 39 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May your journeyings in foreign lands than Mr Bruce We yesterday secured from Mr and Mrs Barrier of Brockport NY the announcement of the marriage of their daughter Fannie to Mr Williams the wedding to take place April 20th Frank Sangston has again plunged his family into the deepest grief by shooting and killing a colored man in Petersburg Va Others will no doubt write…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 40 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 5 in a few days we will have a myriad of leaves and blossoms Many of the shade trees through the city I notice have been severely trimmed I suppose on account of the caterpillars that were so excessively abundant last year 17th St has a more unfinished look than usual this spring Water pipes extend all along from S to Boundary st and…

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Image 41 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May I received a letter from Ms Tin this morning She was telling me how much she enjoyed my last letter In a former letter she had asked me to tell her something of your travels and in answering as one of your delightful letters had just come I gave her quite a lengthy synopsis of the same she not only enjoyed it very much…

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Image 42 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May to the 15th St Church I did hear that Pet would take a class in our Sewing school but she has not yet put in an appearance I would like very much to meet her each Saturday You and I have long been and I think will remain her earnest admirers Miss Briggs I see often She always wants to know the latest from…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 43 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May that is making it possible for her to finish the school year The month of March this year fully sustained its reputation of being the month of months for terrific wind storms and Hattie Sprague came to us several after noons quite exhausted with her walk from Miner building and with not sufficient strength or courage to climb 16th St hill With her rosy…

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Image 44 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 9 When I commenced this letter I thought to enclose it with Lews as he intended to write today but he got up with a bad headache and has been feeling quite ill all day He overdid on Monday he was out in Maryland locating lots the woods had not been cut down and it was hilly and he found the walking difficult he…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 45 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May not waiting for his letter but upon my sending this immediately I will comply with his reuest although I dislike very much to do so because I know you will be disappointed Possibly no steamer will go before his letter is ready that being the case it will be all right and you will not feel that you have almost entirely missed hearing from…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 46 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May good friends of forty years ago who are still remaining Please remember me kindly to Mrs Douglass if she is with you Best love to you from Lewis and myself Your affectionate daughter Amelia

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Date: 1887-01

Image 47 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Nantucket April 17 1887 Dear Mr and Mrs Douglass It was indeed an agreeable surprise to return to my humble abode late in the evening from my brother Alex Macys where I had been visiting to find your very welcome letters While reading them you should have heard me soliloquize You know old people are apt to talk to themselves Since Hamlet did the…

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Image 48 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May the night Tears came to my eyes when I began to realize that I was not totally forgotten by you as I supposed myself to be I had been steeling my mind and trying to grow callous at what in my morbid sensitiveness I feared was indifference on your part and I had succeeded tolerably well but not so completely as I had imagined…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 49 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 6 subsequently broke down completely He was ill at home several years before he died Only a fortnight later I went again to the Cemetery to follow the remains of an own Cousin a lady only a trifle older than myself with whom I had always kept up a cousinly friendship I was always more than a welcome guest to her home and I…

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Image 50 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 7 When in addition to seeing one after another of my friends and relatives drop away I consider the everthinning ranks of my Comrades in arms so to speak the old Abolitionists the world naturally grows more and more lonesome and I find it not so easy to rally putting into practice the motto as given above But we must not shadow the lives…

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Image 51 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 8 house they sold and seem to feel lothe to leave it but on the whole it was a good arrangement since the house was too large for people of their age who do not entertain much company She is to leave the first of May for Nantucket but I shall not expect to see her much before the middle of the month as…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 52 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 5 ending and that Mr Douglass may not be compelled to finish his travels alone _ and as he says in his letter to have to deplore the loss of your help and companionship O What a world we live in of mingled joy and sorrow Today we bask in the sunshine of pleasure tomorrow we are shadowed by the deepest grief Only a…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 53 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 9 may interest you hoping not to be wearisome Charlotte writes that she received an invitation from Mrs Dame Maria Mitchells niece to attend an Alumnae gathering in Washington before which Stephen Fosters daughter Alla had been invited to read a paper Charlotte listened to her address with absorbing interest for her parents sake as well as for her own and said it was…

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Image 54 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 10 My cousin had planned for me to meet Miss Foster at her house in Roxbury but Abbey Kellog Foster died about that time which prevented it It was a disappointment to me Miss A S Blackwell told me she was sorry she didnt know I wanted to see her as she could have invited us together at their house as well as not…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 55 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 11 and I also reported the Ligue at the Mass Annual Suffrage Association and being in the City I thought I would remain through the short cold days of midwinter much as I love Nantucket it seems isolated to me at that inclement season But my visit was cut short by a catastrophic dispatch announcing the death of brother Thomas Elizabeth G Mary whom…

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Image 56 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May taking an interest in every thing that transpires Sorosis in the meetings of which you both kindly expressed so great an interest is still a salient feature of our society We have admitted a few new members by ballot and have large meetings I wonder if you will ever be with us again while I am presiding officer I fear not I was again…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 57 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 13 To imagine you standing on the Pyramids makes them seem like real things not myths as they have in the hazy distance of time and space When you gazed earnestly into the eyes of the Sphinx wondering to its significance did it open its mouth silent for ages and say as it did to Emerson You are another Sunday morning April 24 Last…

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Image 58 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May packing for their return North Mrs Osgood left Washington and lived in Chicago for some months and then returned to the city her husband having been reinstated into office at the Treasury Isnt that unusual A Nantucket gentleman called on me a few days ago who had dined with them at 1636 16th Street With the kindest regard and the most sincere hope that…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 59 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May wide world which journey however delightful must be accompanied by racking toil of mind and body on that you could write much during weeks and months just previous to setting out when the pressure upon nerve and brain and limb must have been tremendous I have a very dear and intimate friend Mrs H B Sharp who has just written me that instead of…

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Image 60 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May disappointed having had her close companionship for a dozen years She says she is going to Europe to rest Think of that But she is used to it having crossed the pond several times before If the great Pyramid and other great things have not exponged everything small out of your heads perhaps you will remember that she had a dedication of her Sconset…

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Image 61 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 278 Degraw St Brooklyn NY 42087 My dear Mr Douglass As one who altho a stranger to you personally has many kindly recollections of you I write to you today to ask if you will please kindly send me that I may place it with your photograph the familiar lines attributed to you beginning thus A government that cannot or does not protect the…

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Image 62 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Washington DC April 22nd 1887 Dear Father Since my last to you Lewis has communicated with H C Kudlich he sent him a certified copy of the Power of Attorney you gave him asking him if he would give the money Mr K replied that you had instructed him not to pay the money upon hearing this I asked Lewis for the check which…

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Image 63 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Mr Matthews held the reins and managed matters himself and it was an easy matter to find out who was in good standing about the office with Mr Matthews by Johnsons seeming friendship towards such persons and his insulting little ways towards such persons as Matthews cared little for I shall see Mr Anderson I mean your old friend formerly from Ohio who partly…

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Image 64 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Since writing the above letter dated April 22 I have just received yours of March 30 for which I am thankful I have been feeling pretty blue for the past few days for never before have I been so deceived in anybody as in Gerritt Loguen and your letter at this time somehow has lightened my heart I supposed Lewis has told you of…

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Image 65 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May particular and afterwards receive kicks from them as Lew did from Matthews Lew signed a petition to have Matthews confirmed has been shabbily treated ever since I think that Matthews Loguen and Johnson have their heads together to rule or ruin Mr Trotter in the administration of the Recorders Office I dislike to say this about Mr Matthews but I believe therefore I say…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 66 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Bridport April 24 1887 Dear Mr Douglass We rejoice on every account to hear that you have cheerful accounts of Mrs Douglass mother It must have been very sad for her to feel such great anxiety which she was so far removed from the power of rendering any We are glad to think that we shall have this new friend together with the old…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 67 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Washington We are likely to be away the first part of June but I may be home for the public celebrations about ie for Sunday June 20 19th We have made as yet no definite plans for the summer and when we hear from you after your arrival in London when you are likely to come we can no doubt arrange accordingly You will…

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Image 68 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May time and thought As you may perhaps have left Rome I have addressed the newspaper and shall address this note to the care of Mr Putnam We found Venice the cheapest place for beautiful photographs of buildings c With kindest regards to you both Yours very faithfully Russell L Carpenter

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Image 69 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Simpson Ross and Co REAL ESTATE BROKERS and Auctioneers Valuators Loan and Rent Agents Mortgage and Auction Sales of Real Estate specialty on any date to suit Solicitors and other Clients No Charge for offering properties at auction unless sold except for Mortgage Sales JK Wesley Simpson PE Ross Archibald McKinlay THE LAND MART 52 Adelaide St East Toronto April 25th 1887 My Dear…

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Image 70 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May lending that money to your mother to reconstruct the Calhoun street house dealing with her the same as you would a stranger ie talk a mortgage c the same as other money lenders does see if she gets the money from others she will have to pay interest and that regularly too She must be made to do the same to you or your…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 71 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Palazzo Moroni 165 Borgo Vicchio Roma Monday morning April 25 1887 Dear dear Jennie If you have postal cards can you not drop me one between your letters with just a few words Think how long the time seems between your letters If you keep some on the table with pen and ink so you do not have to go for them but only…

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Image 72 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May with her were also calling Friday PM the Putnam household and ourselves attended the American Ministers reception held once a month and this the last Beautiful rooms Mr Stalls the Minister took me to the refreshment room and was every way most courteous and kind Many wanted to be presented to Mr Douglass and an American lady said I have seen this in Washington…

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Image 73 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May with Mrs Carson and her friend and saw its sculptures some beautiful pieces Only the villa of sculptures was open This was a little building of two rooms containing the collection which is thought to be good From here we cross pass St Angelo and cross its bridge every time we go almost anywhere except St Peters and the Vatican

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Image 74 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Pension Office Washington April 2687 Dear Father Yours of 14 inst was received yesterday eleven days from date of mailing Joe and Chas F received their letters at same time If you wrote me from Athens I have not yet received it I wrote you at Naples and also at Rome and sent a photograph of the house on Cedar Hill taken by Fred…

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Image 75 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May of the Hospital and Dr King of Wayland Seminary and was roundly hissed for his pains Although chosen through Chases influence the Bee denounced his speech and says he took advantage of them Mr Langstons son is again a murderer This time he has no defense an unprovoked murder He accused a colored man in a tobacco warehouse in Petersburg Va of stealing from…

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Image 76 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May trip as you have been thus far and escape sickness or injury Everything is going along about as when I last wrote Fred will write about the Recorders Office and what is doing there so I will pass that for him My Fred is pushing his business and is also working in a Gallery near his old place He made more money during the…

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Date: 1887-01

Image 77 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 118 Via Amedio Naples 27th April 1887 Dear friend Mr Douglass I have been so busy lately that I have woefully neglected my correspondence but I have not forgotten that I owe you a letter However I have twice published in the Am Register two weeks ago in the number which comes out next Saturday written about you if not to you The first…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 78 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May concerning you anent Clevelands anxiety that the Republican Senate should do justice to your race in appointing as your successor the man whom that same senate rejected The second article is about the editorial occupying a column which the Secolo of Milan the widest circulated paper of Italy had about you The Secolos editorial is most complimentary without being unctuous is correct where they…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 79 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May you would smile when you thought of the plantation white with cotton in the precincts of Tuckahoe Eastern Sho of Maryland my Maryland Please see the register of 30th April But other papers even if they have made harmless mistakes have as a general thing been filled with just eulogy have held you up an example to the young men of Italy for perseverance…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 80 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Wash DC 42787 My Dearest Girl Fearing that I might not get an opportunity to answer your letter tonight I have taken my dinner hour in the office to answer I dont care to have you buy any silk for the Cravats but get post and stamps for your use You stated sometime ago that you had some white silk and that is what…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 81 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 2 The girls told me that Mr Neuning was very much impressed with Virginia McBeetes photo and this he admitted I afterwards to the exercises to meet the Greggs walked home with them and on the way Mrs Anna told me of Neunings infatuation so you can tell Virginia that she has a good catch His parents were formerly from Charleston being related to…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 82 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 3 Henry Wallace leaves for home on Saturday night to spend fifteen days after an absence of a year He returns with an excursion Party who are coming to attend the May Drill Tonight the only Patti appears As the prices range from 2 to 7 for a seat she will take away about 12000 for the one night I am very anxious to…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 83 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 4 and Patti I have to be very economical this year in my patronage of the game When you come to live with me you will get tired hearing me speak of it to say nothing of saving my dinner while I am attending the game By that time though Jane may be cured of the fever Ask Joe did he get the papers…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 84 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 5 Mr W is practicing Law But for the rain there would have been a large attendance but as it was it was very pleasant owing to the absence of a crowd as is usual on such occasions Mary McKinney made a very decided impression by her make up I there met Prof Adams of Louisville who was Lizzies beau He asked after Frannie…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 85 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May of some of the other papers on him I think the President would have gone had he been assured that Jeff Davis would have been there By the way I hope to get the Pres Mrs Clevelands autograph next week then will start on the others I think the lady who kissed West was his aunt Dont over work yourself so as to lay…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 86 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May 118 Via Amedeo Naples May 1 1887 Dear Friend Douglass Yours of the 29th came last night and as I had already a letter from Egypt for you I have this opportunity in sending you to send you a line also I had already researched out the Naples direction and addressed it Firenze Florence I would have sent the letter immediately to Florence but…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 87 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May as you have suggested the confounding of Elector Senator I am so glad that you spoke in Rome the city that was the greatest slave center that the world ever knew There were more slaves fewer men who governed in the Roman Empire than ever any government possessed Up to 1860 two hundred thousand slaveholders governed the United States i e 200000 persons from…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 88 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Mrs Fletcher and I have been reading with the intensest interest your life You have not only put forward the facts in the strongest and most telling way but in a vivid and most interesting style You do use the English language most clearly forcibly and interestingly I notice that you do not allude to what I told you in my last letter that…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 89 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Street Somersetshire England May 5 1887 Dear Mr Douglass I feel a good deal of hesitation in addressing you being an entire stranger to you and especially as I am going to ask a favor I am a daughter of John Bright the eldest of his family Your name has of course been a familiar one for many years with us and associated with…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 90 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May and ask you whether you would be in the west of England again and whether you could find time to spend a day or two with us in the country in a neighborhood not altogether uninteresting to Americans since we have an old ruined Abby some other such places quite near besides a good many homely people who would enjoy seeing you I think…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 91 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May we watched it from afar with painful anxiety Now I have said all that perhaps I ought to say I hope you will pardon me if it seems to you that I am taking an undue liberty a very warm interest for many years in the great cause which you serve to us so largely to represent must be my excuse Mrs Carpenter has…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 92 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May I am not sure if any of your family accompanies you but we should of course warmly welcome any Believe me yours very truly Helen P B Clark

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 93 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Eminenza Râma Gertude Putnam inchinata al bacio della S Porpora domanda umilmente la grazia di potere in compagnia di altre persone vedere e venerare le catene del glorioso principe degli Apostoli che si conservano nella Basilica Eudossiana Che

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 94 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May A Sua Eminenza Râma Il Signor Cardinale Lucido Maria Parocchi Vicario Gânle di Sua SantitÃ Sr And Vicariatus dia 6 Maii 1887 Suo gratia L M Card Vic Per LEntroscritta Oratrice

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 95 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Ardkill Billing Co Dublin 5987 My dear Friend It has been a great pleasure to look back upon your visit to us the drawback being that Mrs Douglas was not with you It was so very pleasant to see you wearing so bravely your threescore and ten years years now of well took honor and repose after the many 425

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 96 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May and trying vicissitudes of earlier days Thanks for your letters both that before leaving Liverpool and again since your return home which we were glad to hear you reached in due course finding all your dear ones there well I shall see and return the photos of Proffessor and Mrs Allen to M Edmundson when she comes back from Scotland where she and her…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 97 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May preparatory to going to the states in the Autumn My husband desires to write his very kindest remembrances to you and we would both wish to include your wife in kind regards You must excuse this hurried letter as we are just about leaving home for Belfast on a visit to my brothers And remain dear friend affectionately Wilhelmina Webb

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 98 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Madame Giottis No 1 Via Soderini Florence May 10 1887 Dear Mrs Putnam We came packed snugly and warm ten of us safely to Florence Mr Douglass and I were soon ensconced in a large pleasant room being very pleasantly met by Madame Giotti We met Mrs Carson and Miss Richardson at breakfast in an exceedingly cheerful dining room Miss Stoddard and party we…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 99 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May the Duomo as we suddenly came upon it while driving I think Florence a beautiful city a conclusion matured by a six hours experience The illumination takes place Thursday evening and the grand exhibition Friday so we shall not leave before Saturday Will some Mrs F D to Mrs Putnam

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Image 100 of Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May Tuesday May 11 1887 PALAZZO MARONI 165 BORGO VECCHIO ROME Dear Mr Douglass I write to inform you that I send you by the same post as this letter a sketch of the little picture of Rome that you liked I hope it will prove acceptable and serve as a memorial of your sojourn in the Eternal City as well as a souvenir of…

Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
Date: 1887-01

Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1887, Jan.-May