Pan-Republic Congress Organizing Committee.
Office of Secretary and Treasurer
Hon WM H. Arnoux, New York Chairman, General Committee.
Col. Ethan Allen, New York, Chairman, Executive Committee.
Dr. Persifor Frazer, Philadelphia, Pa., Chairman, Committee on Address to Organizations in Sympathy with Free Institutions.
Col. Champion S. Chase, L.L.D., Omaha, Neb., Chairman, Committee on Plan and Scope.
Dr. G. Brown Goode, Washington, D. C., Chairman, Committee on Address to all Peoples.
Walter S. Logan, Esq., New York, Chairman Committee on Legislation.
Wm. O. McDOWELL, Secretary and Treasurer, 20 Spruce St.
Newark, N. J., January 2, 1892
Dear Sir:
I am instructed by the Executive Committee to write you this letter as a member of the General Committee in charge of this work. With this date we enter upon the most important year of our work. It is 1892, the 400th anniversary year of the discovery by Columbus of America. For the next two years America and her institutions, the United States, her form of Government; her prosperity and the causes to which this can be credited, will have the attention of the world as never before. It is our great opportunity to advance the cause of liberty and human freedom, peace and justice throughout the world. On October 12 last, Discovery Day, our General Committee in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and adopted the enclosed resolutions, thereby creating The Human Freedom League to sustain and support this movement, and to continue so long as there is a work for it to do. Under these resolutions you are a charter member of the League and entitled to nominate others as charter members. At the present time, we are doing the organizing work in connection with The Human Freedom League marked out by these resolutions. As a part of this we are communicating with every fraternal, patriotic and commercial organization throughout the world, inviting them to amend their constitution, adopting the following as the additional objects of their organization:
"To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of republican freedom. To foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty."
In this country where the word "republican" is used as well in a partisan sense, we substitute the words "Institutions of American Freedom."
The Press throughout the world has given this movement most encouraging support. The great reviews are seeking a knowledge of our work. Articles have already appeared in the New England Magazine, Arena and Review of Reviews. The North American Review has a symposium in preparation for an early number. "Home and Country," a monthly, published at 98 Maiden Lane, New York, at a subscription price of $1.00 a year, gives its full pages to our work. We should, in order to do justice to the opportunity that is opening to us, organize, at once, a literary bureau. We ask:
First. That you will contribute to the cause this year as liberally as you can, sending your check at as early a date as convenient
Second. That you will, if you have not already done so, subscribe for "Home and Country," that you may be constantly in touch with the work.
Third. That you will send us names and addresses of persons both in America and abroad, as requested by the Independence Hall resolutions who will be interested, nominating them as charter members of The Human Freedom League, and we will invite them to become one with us in this work.
Fourth. That you will be in attendance at the adjourned meeting of the organization that will take place in Omaha, Nebraska, on April 10 next.
Very respectfully yours,
WM. O. McDowell
Secretary.
[*3024*]
[*Hon. Frederick Douglas.*]1123 California St.
San Francisco
Jany 5th
[*pray
expense
alots.*]

 and addresses of persons both in America and abroad, as requested by the Independence Hall resolutions who will be interested, nominating them as charter members of The Human Freedom League, and we will invite them to become one with us in this work.
Fourth. That you will be in attendance at the adjourned meeting of the organization that will take place in Omaha, Nebraska, on April 10 next.
Very respectfully yours,
WM. O. McDowell
Secretary.
[*3024*]
[*Hon. Frederick Douglas.*]1123 California St.
San Francisco
Jany 5th
[*pray
expense
alots.*] My very dear Mr. Douglas
Your old
friend "Eliza" does not
indeed forget you & it
gladdened her heart to
see you spoke of her with
affection in your letters
to Dora. How vividly
& fondly she recals those
old days of our youth
enriched by your friendship
& affection! Happy
days when our hearts
so glowed with enthusiasm
& the friendships formed
there remained true & steadfast
for life! Dear Mr
[Huff is gone & his saintly
wife also, & what a
friend [*1126*]he was as true as steel.
What a rich memory of love
those weeks I spent in
Lynn, my American
home. There I saw you
last & how separated
our lives have been since
then! Your life such a
busy, active one, full
of incident, mine so
domestic & retired!
My husband is one of
the most domestic of
men & I have been moved
to his tastes & devoted
myself to the
children. We are proud
of our boys & our one
daughter & of our grandchildren.
You have
grandchildren also,
I think. California
was too far away for it separated me from
dear friends & relatives
& for years I was alone.
You, my dear friend,
have had much to
worry you of late, but
your good wife has
helped you through it
all. Now I see by one
of the papers that you
are ill, I trust not
seriously, but I want
to send you a loving
word telling of constant
affection & of pride in
you. Our old friend
Parker Pilsbury now
83 years old writes letters
as of old & put me to
shame for my idleness.
We have all been ill
in this house with the
prevailing maladyI am near as strong
as most people. Our
dear eldest brother
has just died, of la grippe
& his daughter Annie
Hollins has been carried
away from all her usefulness.
This is a great
grief to my sister Dora
who loved her so dearly.
Excuse a hello & a longer
letter tonight dear friend.
& believe me with the
old affection.
Your true friend,
Eliza H. Sherwood P.S. I sought for & found
the Quarterly Review or
I think I was the N.A.
Review & read your first
article but have not yet
got the 2nd.Post-office address
Telegraph address
Express office DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
GEOGRAPHIC BRANCH Berkeley, Cali. Jan 7 1892 My dear McKinley,
I telegraphed you last night asking
you to send $50.00 to John Hackworth, Olney, Colorado
Will has been drawing on me to an extent
that is appalling & I owe Hackworth 50
My last note to you is now paid so I thing
you will do this for me. Yours
Stuart [*3097*]New Port January 8. 1892 Frederick Douglas,
Dear and old friend.
Concern as to your health causes
me to drop you a line.
How are you? Let me know -
The health and rigor with which
we have been blessed, must, in the
course of nature, yield; at least
to less force and activity. We
may be exposed for grand and
home the satisfaction of seeing
profitable results flowing from
our labors: we know that our
biases have not been a part in
an unprofitable manner. May peace and other blessings
attend you in your declining
years, The family joins me
in sending an affectionate
remembrance. Truly
Geo T Downing

 health causes
me to drop you a line.
How are you? Let me know -
The health and rigor with which
we have been blessed, must, in the
course of nature, yield; at least
to less force and activity. We
may be exposed for grand and
home the satisfaction of seeing
profitable results flowing from
our labors: we know that our
biases have not been a part in
an unprofitable manner. May peace and other blessings
attend you in your declining
years, The family joins me
in sending an affectionate
remembrance. Truly
Geo T Downing [* 1127 *]Natchitoches La Jany 10 1892
Hon Frederick Douglass
Washington D.C
Dear Sir you would
oblige me very much to know
where can a colored boy
18 years of age
where is the Best place
for him to make a
splendid living and to
secure a splendid education
north or south and
where he can get his
legal rights I am here
in Louisiana but I am
determined to secure an
education and to make
a man of my self I
am going to try to reach 1128the top of the Ladder as
President James A Garfield
did when he was a
poor boy I hope and
trust in the Lord that
you will remain in public
life not in private
I hope that you will speak
in many a state this
summer for Blaine or
Harrison if they are the
candidates I hope that the
Republican Banner will lead
to victory in November I
am only a Boy but Mr
Douglass I hope to see the
day come when the
colored race will come to the
front as all other races
my People the colored race
please Sir write soon and
oblige yours very Respectfully
Edward S. Wright The Salem Charlestown Mass,
Jan 11th 1892 To the Hon. Frederick Douglas
Dear Sir: Your letter of October 13th
/91 came in due season, and at that time. I thought I would
trouble you no more but since that time, I have decided to
write to you again, and should it be a very unwelcome sheet,
I ask you pardon for the trouble I cause you. I am not so
wise as your self. Your writing, and sentiment is kind. and
sympathetic, and I thank you, also for the ten dollars. which I
will hold like you advise me. Wheather to use it in part
payment, for my late father's last sickness, and funeral
expenses, or for the object of my final letter to you, and I
should have let you know before this that the money was
received, only that I have been unable to hold pen-from
a rheumatic trouble on the right side, from which I am
a sufferer at times.

 I am not so
wise as your self. Your writing, and sentiment is kind. and
sympathetic, and I thank you, also for the ten dollars. which I
will hold like you advise me. Wheather to use it in part
payment, for my late father's last sickness, and funeral
expenses, or for the object of my final letter to you, and I
should have let you know before this that the money was
received, only that I have been unable to hold pen-from
a rheumatic trouble on the right side, from which I am
a sufferer at times. There is no person living, for whom I have greater respect
than the Hon. Frederick Douglass, I was taught to love him, and
pray for him when a little child, and the lesson has stood
by me, and I by that, through life so far, and if in this.
I write plainly. I mean no disrespect. No, no, far from that. 1125I have made a careful study of your letter. And
I find you wish to put me off - to end the corrispondence
you tell me in a very kind way. you would gladly help
me if you could. now I think you could help me - if
you would: you tell me the soul of my noble brother is
safe. I am sure of that else there is no heaven -
you also tell me the earthly remains, are safe. I think
they are, as safe from his loved one's, as for the last
thirty two years - and his memory. I wish I knew who
has ever spoken his name - since the day he fellthat I might do them honor - and pray for them;
And, again you say, it seems to you there ought to be
friends near me - who could and would help me -
Those friends say to me, have you let Mr Douglass know
your condition - he is a rich man - and ought to help
you. He with other (and they name them) furnished the
the means to carry on old John Brown's work. tell me
please, Dear Sir, who paid the bills to keep my boy brother
and seventeen other young men at a military school
eighteen months, at Springfield Ohio, who paid his
way from Worcester Mass. to Kansas, and there he joined
John Brown. and with him went to his death. surely the
boy had no means, the poor sick father had none.
these friends that you say - ought, to be near me - say
to me. why did a certain few rich gentlemen - leave

 with other (and they name them) furnished the
the means to carry on old John Brown's work. tell me
please, Dear Sir, who paid the bills to keep my boy brother
and seventeen other young men at a military school
eighteen months, at Springfield Ohio, who paid his
way from Worcester Mass. to Kansas, and there he joined
John Brown. and with him went to his death. surely the
boy had no means, the poor sick father had none.
these friends that you say - ought, to be near me - say
to me. why did a certain few rich gentlemen - leave there home and business for a trip to Europe.
so soon after the Harpers Ferry affair - if they had nothing
whatever to do with it. those very ones - would tell me to
day - as they do - that they are not able to place a head stone
or tablet on that sacred bit of land - where rests the
remains of the father, and mother of a poor hero. one
that I should think the whole colored race would respect
let alone the fact that Wendell Phillips bought and paid
for the place - with the intention of doing reverence to the
memory of the noble boy.
No sir. the friends you say I ought to have near
me, would not turn there hand. to help me pay the bill
of ninety seven dollars. a bill of honest indebtedness for
the last sickness and buryal expenses of my poor old
father. God only know how it will ever be paid. I do not
and how little they know or care (perhaps I am severe
I do not wish to be) how much that son would leave
to my parents, in there feebleness. and what it has
cost me, to try to fill his place to them. but they
have gone to there rest and to meet there dear one -
and I will struggle on in my poverty and affliction
as long as the Heavenly Father permits - there is no
one to labor. to keep me. and my dear good husband
from the poor farm, as we strive, to keep my father
and mother from there, as much for my noblebrothers sake as their own,
I am disappointed, I thought perhaps you would take
some interest but if you cannot who would? it was not
for the ten dollars that I wrote to you, but for your interest
there are many ways that a poor person can be made
self supporting . But it is more than a poor laboror can
do these days, to get a position, with only influence.
that will pay him more than a bread and water living.
Dear Sir only a few lines more, should it ever come
in your way, that you should see your way clear to
assist me. I think you would find me worthy for
nearly three months I have been confined to my room
with rheumatic trouble, at my best I am able to do this
little if I was a woman of good health, I would ask nothing
more, [lit?] sickness and poverty, twin monsters, are what I
have had to contend with for years, and when death took
my only child, my noble boy, nearly twenty two years old
I thought my heart was breaking, and I cannot work
since as I did before, good by dear Sir, pray the
Heavenly Father prosper you, and care for you, and
those who are dear to you, and at last take you to him
self is the sincere wish of one who hold you in high esteem
Mrs. S. H. Brann[*good read*]

 ask nothing
more, [lit?] sickness and poverty, twin monsters, are what I
have had to contend with for years, and when death took
my only child, my noble boy, nearly twenty two years old
I thought my heart was breaking, and I cannot work
since as I did before, good by dear Sir, pray the
Heavenly Father prosper you, and care for you, and
those who are dear to you, and at last take you to him
self is the sincere wish of one who hold you in high esteem
Mrs. S. H. Brann[*good read*] THE SHAW MONUMENT. That site on the Common, opposite the
State House, which the donors of the Shaw
monument have asked for is emphatically
the location which they should have. The
monument will be unique and imposing, the
work of a master hand, very different from
some of the designs with which our public
grounds have been afflicted. Col. Shaw was
one of the heroic figures in the war for freedom,
and it is right and proper that the solid
block of granite whose sculptured face will
commemorate his fame should have
a conspicuous position. It has often
been remarked that the "old families,"
that so-called "aristocracy," of Massachusetts
poured out their blood like water in the Rebellion,
and the remark is a true one. They
gave lavishly of their bravest and their best.
Col. Shaw, one of the most gallant, was only
one among a legion of brave young volunteers
who offered themselves with the poorest and
humblest of their fellow-citizens to the service
of their country. Perhaps one secret of
the brilliant fighting qualities of our Massachusetts
regiments was that they represented
all classes of our population.
Social distinctions were obliterated
in the fervor of patriotism. Millionaire and
mechanic, patrician and immigrant, fought
side by side and followed the same colors.
We do not know how the higher and finer
duties of American citizenship can be more
impressively taught to future generations
than by this monument of the fortunate
young son of Massachusetts which is to stand
in front of the State House on Beacon Hill,
near the spot whence he led his regiment of
freedmen.
DeWOLFE, FISKE & CO.,
PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS.
361 and 365 WASHINGTON STREET.
THE ARCHWAY BOOKSTORE. BOSTON, JAN. 13th, 1892 Hon. Fred. Douglas
WASHINGTON, D. C. , Dear Sir;-
When you were at our place some time since, you spoke
of writing some additional matter for your autobiography. We
are having calls for the work, but have been waiting before publishing
a new edition, to see whether you wished to make any
additions.
We enclose a letter which we have received in regard to
the book. Please let us know whether you wish to send us any
new matter. If we do not hear from you we shall go to press
with the book at once.
Yours Respectfully,
(Dictated.) DeWolfe. Fiske &CO 1129Office of Park Publishing Co.
PUBLISHERS OF
STANDARD SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS. 284 Asylum Street. Hartford, Conn. Jan 12 1892 Messrs De Wolfe Fiske & Co
Boston. Mass
Gentlemen, Can you now
inform us when a new edition
of 'Life of Fredk Douglass' will
be issued. Had we the
prospectus now. could set at
work two first class agents.
Is Mr. Douglass bringing the
work to date or has he abandoned
the idea.
An early reply will oblige. We
are sorry to trouble you again.
with this matter, but we are
constantly receiving inquiries
concerning the book. from our old
agents and other parties.
Your very truly
Park Publishing Co.
B. [*1129-A*] Washington DC Jan 15 Friend McKinley
My Sister have been
quite sick I could not ask
her to sine the note before
this. I am geting better and
I will lie down and bring
your Intrus Saturday
Saturday a friend of mine
promised to let me have
money to morrow - Six of
my family down and my
self it take every cent I
get from the shop to by medicine
and some thing to eate - the
men can not keep the
costemers to gether like I
they all know you & have
not [n] not worked but
4 days since I saw

ley
My Sister have been
quite sick I could not ask
her to sine the note before
this. I am geting better and
I will lie down and bring
your Intrus Saturday
Saturday a friend of mine
promised to let me have
money to morrow - Six of
my family down and my
self it take every cent I
get from the shop to by medicine
and some thing to eate - the
men can not keep the
costemers to gether like I
they all know you & have
not [n] not worked but
4 days since I saw [*3098*]you this is confidential
but I will asure you
I will do what is right
with you when I get
strait. Enclosed you
will find her on my
note
yours truly
E. D. CoxHyppolite, Président D'Haiti à l'honorable
Frederick Douglass, ancien animiste Des États-Unis
en Haïti. Cher Monsieur, J'ai lu le texte de la conférence
que vous avez faite sur Haïte devant un nombreux
auditoire Américaine. Cette lecture m'a impressionné, non pas à cause
des éloges que vous avec d'ecernes à mon pays, mais parce
que vous l'avez jugé' avec s'quite' et que vous liu avez dit
les d'enfants comme pes mérites avec une impartialité qui
vous honore. Vous avez parlé d'Haïti et de la mission que
la Providence lui a confiée avec les accents d'une philosophie
d'engagée de toutes les petites passions qui obscurcissent
la raison et l'aussont le jugement des hommes.
Pouvait-il d'ailleures, en étre autrement de la part
de celui dont le nom peul commande le respect, de vous
Monsieur, dont la l'orgue carrière est un l'témoignage
Éclatant de ce que peuvent le sentiment du droit et
la foi en Dieu dans la latte contre les injustices et les
préventions du monde? Soufrés don que comme citoyen d'Haïti,
je vous remercie d'avous verdu justice a mon pays. En vous priant d'accepter ma photographie que
je vous expédie dans une Caisse qui vous sera remise
peux Monsieur Hannibal Grice, Ministre d'Haïti [*2990*]ā Washington, je saisis, Cher Monsieur, cette occasion
de vous réitérer l'assurance de ma plus haute considération. H Cypprohle Port-au-Prince, le 16 Tamier 1892
[1892 Ja 16] Hyppolite; President of Haiti, to Honorable Frederick Douglass,
former Minister of the United States in Haiti. Dear sir;
I have read the text of your address upon Haiti which
you made before a large American audience. This perusal has impressed me, not only by the encomiums which
you have paid to my country, but because you have judged with equity
and you have spoken of its faults as of its merits with an
impartiality that does you honor. You have spoken of Haiti and of the mission confided to her
by Providence with the accents of a philosophy freed from all the
small passions which obscure the reason and warp the judgement of
men. It could not, however be otherwise on the part of himof whom
the name alone commands respect, you, sir, whose long career is
a glorious witness of what the sentiment of right, and faith in
God can accomplish in the battle against the injustices and the
prejudices of the world. Permit me, then, as a citizen of Haiti, to thank you for having
rendered justice to Haiti. In praying you to accept my picture which I send to you in a
case which will be forward to you by Mr. Hannibal Price, Minister
from Haiti to Washington, I seize, dear sir, this occasion to
renew to you the assurance of my most high consideration.

 alone commands respect, you, sir, whose long career is
a glorious witness of what the sentiment of right, and faith in
God can accomplish in the battle against the injustices and the
prejudices of the world. Permit me, then, as a citizen of Haiti, to thank you for having
rendered justice to Haiti. In praying you to accept my picture which I send to you in a
case which will be forward to you by Mr. Hannibal Price, Minister
from Haiti to Washington, I seize, dear sir, this occasion to
renew to you the assurance of my most high consideration. Hyppolite. 2990January 20th 1892 Mr. Butterworth.
My dear sir:
I am heartily in favor of observing Sunday as a day of rest -
and I am equally in favor of keeping the gates of the world's Columbian
Exposition open on Sunday. The doors of the church and the gates of the
Exposition should, alike and on the same principle, be open, leaving to the
people absolute freedom of choice between one or the other. The people
alone have a right to decide in what manner they shall find rest
on that day, for which may be rest to one person may be irksome toil
to another. Sitting and lying down, may be more tiresome to one than standing
or walking to another. Hence liberty of choice should be left to the judgement
conscience of such individual. There is no more reason for shutting up
the grounds of the Exposition on Sunday than there would be for shu[tting]
up the Streets, Boulevards and Parks of Chicago. The price of liberty is said
to be eternal vigilance. We should fiercely resist the first encroachments of bigotry
and superstition. It should be stucloped out in the egg. I am not of those who
think that great questions of human liberty and progress, are to [lit] be determine
by a text. Such questions must be left to reason experience and the general
welfare - yet I deem it fortunate that the Christian scriptures, not tell them
reason, rejects the authority of the Jewish Sabbath as holy day. and leaves mankind
entirely free to choose their own way of disposing of their time on that day. The Jews and some
of the early Christians, wished to put the old wine of the law, into the new bottles
of Christianity - (as some of our statesmen would like to have some of the old customs
of slavery fastened upon our new dispensation of liberty) but neither Christ
nor his apostles, were in favor of any such thing. [*1065*]2
When called to account for breaking the sabbath by the church and priesthood
of his day, he said the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. He said that the
Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The Pharisees of that day
would have shut hungry men out of the cornfield, as today, the same class, would
[have] shut the people out of the Exposition grounds. Oh, but they were hungry!
and there was the difference the objector will say. I admit no essential difference
The mind and heart can be hungry as well as the stomach, the spiritual
man not less than the physical [spiritual] man and it is as merciful and as
necessary at times, to feed the one as the other. For this want "There are
sermons in the stones, Books in the running brook."
Paul like his master, though brought up at the feet of Gamaliel after the manner
of the perfect law- utterly rejected the bondage of the law and broadly- and
declared that jewish ordinances, the sabbath included were ended in Christ.
To the early Christians he said. And you being dead in your soul, and the
circumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven
you all trespasses, blotting out the hand writing of ordinances that was against
us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
Cross. Let no man therefore, judge you, in meat or in drink or in
respect of an holy day or of the new moon, or of the sabbath, which are a
shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ. In this, if such were
wanted, we have scriptural warrant for rejecting the idea that one day is more
holy than another. And hence opposition to opening the fair on Sunday [grounds] must
find some other support than the idea of sabbath desecration.
Very truly yours
Frederick DouglassTo Hon.
Wm. Butterworth.
Jan. 1893.Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 25, 1892.

 of an holy day or of the new moon, or of the sabbath, which are a
shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ. In this, if such were
wanted, we have scriptural warrant for rejecting the idea that one day is more
holy than another. And hence opposition to opening the fair on Sunday [grounds] must
find some other support than the idea of sabbath desecration.
Very truly yours
Frederick DouglassTo Hon.
Wm. Butterworth.
Jan. 1893.Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 25, 1892. Honorable Frederick Douglass.
Cedar Hill, Anacostia D. C.
U. S. A. Dear Sir: I leave the pleasure of acknowledging the
receipt of your favor of December 31, 1891. Mrs. Battiste and myself regret much to learn
that you and Mrs. Douglass have both been down
with la grippe, but are thankful that you are both
recovering; and hope that ere this you are both entirely
reestablished in health. I have not received any letter from Mr. Bassett
for some time, but I have learned that he is also down
with la grippe, from a letter written by his daughter to
Dr. Terres. I must inform you that I received a New Years
gift in the form of an announcement from Mr. Durham
of my being appointed Deputy Consul. My bond having
been duly filled out and forwarded to the Department,
I am in expectation of my Commission by the steamer
due here this week. The feelings of gratitude towards you for your kind
words for Haiti, seem about to take a definite shape, in
a gold medal to be presented to you; or your photograph
in a gold frame with the inscription "F. Douglass, Haiti
Reconnaissant," it is not yet decided which. 1131I am also informed that you will be named to
represent this Country at the Chicago Exposition of
the Columbus Centennial.
Affairs here are in a very unsettled State, Quite
an excitement was created here by the article published
in the N. Y. Herald of January 9th about a
vessel said to have been purchased & fitted out as
a man-of-war by the revolutionary party's agent in
New York, and supposed to have left, but all this
has since been contradicted, however there still
existe a feeling of anxiety and every body seem to
expect that before long there will be an attempt
made to overthrow President Hyppolite. The authorities
are on the "Qui vive" and all measures are being taken
to suppress any attempt.
Only three of the exiles have up to this present writing
accepted the "amnesty."
The negotiations for a loan to the Government is under
way and almost concluded for $150,000 monthly, but the
merchants terms are: the Government accepting the $5 of
Seegitime's issue payable at $4 in gold. and an interest
of 1% on the $150,000, per month. The Government
hesitates at accepting the $5, bills and is not disposed
to pay but 1/2 % per month. But I fear that it
will be forced to accept the terms proposed by the
merchants, because the Government is hard pressed
for money, not being able to pay its employees their
January salary up to the present.
I would beg to remind you of the draft transmitted to you by the Treasury Department
but due to our Consular Agents here in payment
of Services rendered American Vessels.
Mrs. Battiste begs to be remembered to you
and Mrs. Douglass.
Yours truly
A. Battiste630 Franklin St.
January 25, 1892 Hon Fred. Douglass,
Dear Sir:
Having seen
in several newspapers notices
somewhat similar to
the enclosed slip, I take the
liberty of asking you the "facts
in the case", as well as the
name of the lady.
As you may remember, Capt.
Thos. Auld left only three
children - Mrs J.C. Harper, now
living in comfort near St. Michalls,
Mrs. Wm H. Bruff, of Texas,
who is disabled by paralysis
and our departed mother.
My sister, Anna Lucretia, has
been congratulated several times

1892 Hon Fred. Douglass,
Dear Sir:
Having seen
in several newspapers notices
somewhat similar to
the enclosed slip, I take the
liberty of asking you the "facts
in the case", as well as the
name of the lady.
As you may remember, Capt.
Thos. Auld left only three
children - Mrs J.C. Harper, now
living in comfort near St. Michalls,
Mrs. Wm H. Bruff, of Texas,
who is disabled by paralysis
and our departed mother.
My sister, Anna Lucretia, has
been congratulated several times 1130for "the lady' mentioned above.
Hoping you will pardon
my interest in the matter,
if it is intrusive, I am
Respectfully, and sincerely
Yours,
Thomas E. Sears (MD.)Tenafly, N. J.
June 29th
[*[1892 Dear Douglass Is there any
truth in the enclosed
statement, if so, we wish
to record it in History.
I was sorry that I could
not see more of you in
Washington. We had a
good convention of three
days both in your City &
at Phila. & two hearings
before our Standing
Committee, all well rounded
out with receptions, dinners.
I think we are making some
progress, but it is a sore tax
on human patience
to be forty years going through [*204*] [*123*]& Princeton, to educate the [stringent?] striplings
for the ministry. With kind regards for
yourself & family Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. this moral wilderness with
no one to give us manna,
& no pillar of light to lead
the way, & no Moses in
direct communication with
the ruler of the universe
But all this could be
endured if we only had
a golden calf whose ears
& tail & legs could be thrown
into the United State Mint by
peicemeal to supply us with
the sinews of war. But alas
on the distant horizon we
see no coming calf, to say
nothing of such women
who will share their abundance
with us instead of giving
bequests to Harvard Yale Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President of
the united woman suffrage organizations of
the entire country, has sent this letter to Mr.
Hamilton Willcox, of New York. It is very
important, as Mrs. Stanton and her political
friends have commonly favored Federal action
on suffrage, and have generally been against any
partial woman suffrage measures. The bill referred to is indorsed by the Working-women's
Society, which represents the organized
workwomen of New York, the N.Y.
Central Labor Union, the Central Labor Unions
of Brooklyn and Syracuse, and other organizations
including over one hundred thousand men. 26 West Sixty-First St.,
New York, November 20th, 1891.
Mr. Hamilton Willcox:
Dear Sir:—I have read the bill framed by
you, to relieve self-supporting women from the
many disabilities and sufferings caused by disfranchisement. It is timely and important. I know no class
of citizens that need the protection of the ballot
in their own hands more than the friendless
working women who, in the hard struggle of life,
must depend wholly on themselves for shelter,
food and clothes. I sincerely hope this bill,
which it is proposed to present to our Legislature
this winter, will pass without one dissenting vote.
Two hundred thousand women, with children
and aged parents in many cases depending on
them, who average by their labors less than five
dollars a week, should not plead in vain for a
voice in the government of the Empire State. This large oppressed class forms no constituency
for any party; it has no representatives in
the halls of legislation,—hence there are none to
guard its interests in the world of work. Accept
my warmest thanks for your efforts to secure for
this class the right of suffrage,—that right which
Charles Sumner well said "is the Columbiad
of our political life, and every citizen who holds
it is a full armed Monitor." The terrible social
evils we all deplore can never be remedied but
through the enfranchisement of woman. I hope that all friends of justice will use their
utmost influence for the immediate passage of
this bill.

 in
the halls of legislation,—hence there are none to
guard its interests in the world of work. Accept
my warmest thanks for your efforts to secure for
this class the right of suffrage,—that right which
Charles Sumner well said "is the Columbiad
of our political life, and every citizen who holds
it is a full armed Monitor." The terrible social
evils we all deplore can never be remedied but
through the enfranchisement of woman. I hope that all friends of justice will use their
utmost influence for the immediate passage of
this bill. Your able paper on the power of the Legislature
to extend the suffrage is unanswerable. The
claim that the constitution stands in the way of
such action is groundless. The people being the
primal source of power, speak through their
respective Legislatures, and are above all constitutions,
which they make and unmake, and to which
they give new interpretations, as they advance
n civilization. Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Cady StantonCLERK'S OFFICE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON D.C. Feb'y 4, 1892.
Respected Madam :
Two plucky young AMERICAN girls will,
On Saturday, Feb'y 6th,
at 436 Ninth Street, bet. D and E Sts., N.W.
with self-earned money, open the finest Fruit Store ever in Washington.
The store is called the American Fruit Store.
They will also handle Choice Candies.
Miss Maggie, of the firm, was for 6 years at the Malaga Fruit Store,
kept by Italiens. Perhaps she has, at some time, in the past, waited on
you.
It is time Americans were helping AMERICANS, especially young
ladies, enterprising and energetic enough to venture into business.
Quite a number of your friends will call on them Saturday. Would
it be asking too much to beg your assistance? A call by you, even
for a trifling purchase, would have a good effect on others and encourage
the young ladies.
If I am not asking too much, please assist us in encouraging these
plucky American girls, by mentioning them to your friends, and, if
possible, by calling on them Saturday. I write this out of a pure
patriotic spirit and to assist the young ladies. Although they are
only acquaintances in a business way.
Very Respectfully Yours,
WILLIAM EVERETTE. [3/62]14 lbs. Turkey .18$2.52
6 bunches celery .10 .25
2 qts Cranberries 20
1/4 pk Onion .13
1/2 " S. Potatoes .20
Ash shovel 15 $3.45
Cocoanut .05 $3.50
Remainder 150 $5.00Hyppolite
President of Haiti; Sir; By the kind and obliging care of Honorable
Hannibal Price, your able and efficient Minister, now residing
near the Government of the United States, I have recently had the
great pleasure to receive a most admirable portrait of your Excellency.
I esteem myself very fortunate in being the possessor of a
reminder so perfect of your Excellency's face and features and
of having it in my power to show to my friends and visitors something
of the port and bearing of the President of Haiti. I accept
with every grateful sentiment this present from your Excellency
and shall value it for the friendship which it implies. I gladly
avail myself of the occasion of this present to assure you that my
desire for the peace and happiness of Haiti has suffered no abatement
since my return to the United States.
Let me also thank you for your letter and your approval
of my address concerning Haiti. I have endeavored to be just,
setting down nothing in malice. I am glad that you have thus far
been able to circumvent and defeat the schemes against the peace
and progress of Haiti. There is no height of civilization to
which I do not wish to see her rise.
With sincere sentiments permit me to subscribe myself simply Your friend
Frederick Douglass. Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C.
February 9th. 1892.Lock Box #995.
Asbury Park, N.J. Feb. 9, 1892. Hon. Fred Douglas.
Dear Sir: -
I write to see if you will come to Asbury
Park the latter part of March or the first of April and
lecture for the benefit of our church. We would be glad
to have you to come and remain with us a few days.
We will use every endeavor to your stay pleasant with us.
I await your answer, please state what it will cost
us.

lass. Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C.
February 9th. 1892.Lock Box #995.
Asbury Park, N.J. Feb. 9, 1892. Hon. Fred Douglas.
Dear Sir: -
I write to see if you will come to Asbury
Park the latter part of March or the first of April and
lecture for the benefit of our church. We would be glad
to have you to come and remain with us a few days.
We will use every endeavor to your stay pleasant with us.
I await your answer, please state what it will cost
us. Yours very truly,
Fillmore Smith,
Pastor A. M. E. Zion Church 3025LÉGATION DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
D'HAÏTI New York, February 10th, 1892 My dear Mr. Douglass, I am requested by Mr. C. Archin,
Secretary of State of the Foreign Relations of
Hayti to inform you that our people have
been so much pleased with and thankful for
your kind words in behalf of Hayti and the
Haytiens in your public conference of last
October, that a general demand is made from
our various towns for copies, in french and in Honorable Fred. Douglass
Washington, D.C. [*1124*]pamphlet form of both that conference and your
articles published in the North American Review. A comity of young men has been organized
at Port-au-Prince to meet that
demand and all that is needed now is the
author's authorization which I am requested
to solicit in their names. To those expressions of the gratitude
and admiration of my people, allow me to
add those of one who would be proud and
happy to be reckoned by the old good Fred.
as his devoted and admiring friend, Hannibal PriceSecrétairerie d'État
des Relations Extérieures
Section de la
Con. Générale
No. 109 Port au Prince 11 Février 1892
Monsieur,
Je m'epresse de vous
annoncer que Son Excellence le Président
d'Haïti a fait choix de vous pour être
premier commissaire de la République d'Haïti
in l'Exposition Universelle de Chicago.
Ce choix du Premier Magistrat de notre
République a été inspiré, et je suis heureux de vous
le dire hautement, par ce sentiment de patriotique
sympathie et d'admiration qui se manifeste dans
notre Nation pour l'homme remarquable dont la
parole austère la défendue tout récemment, avec une
éloquence convaincue, au sein de la Grande Amérique
Espérons,
Monsieur Frederick Douglass,
Ancien Ministre Résident de Etats Unis d' Amérique
en Haïti.Espérons, Honorable Monsieur, que vos
généreux accents en faveur d'Haïti, que vous
avez appris à connaître et à estimer, seront entendus
du Monde entier et contribueront puissamment
á faire apprécier à sa juste valeur a jeune Pays
encore à la recherche de sa voie dans la civilisation.
Votre présence á l'Exposition de Chicago, dans
laquelle la République s'efforcera d'occuper une
place digne d'elle et des conseils que vous lui
avez donnés, marquera dans l'attention publique
et ajoutera à la bonne opinion qu'elle a prise
dans l'Assemblée des Nations civilisées.

imer, seront entendus
du Monde entier et contribueront puissamment
á faire apprécier à sa juste valeur a jeune Pays
encore à la recherche de sa voie dans la civilisation.
Votre présence á l'Exposition de Chicago, dans
laquelle la République s'efforcera d'occuper une
place digne d'elle et des conseils que vous lui
avez donnés, marquera dans l'attention publique
et ajoutera à la bonne opinion qu'elle a prise
dans l'Assemblée des Nations civilisées. Vous vous serez ainsi prête à réaliser
un de vos rêves si noblement exprimés dans votre
conférence de Novembre dernier et l'ardent désir du
Président d'Haïti et du Pays qu'il dirige si -
dignement de voir notre race commune définitivement
réhabilitée dans la considération universelle par
l'initiative d'Haïti. Votre dédommagent aux fatiguer de
cette mission qui vous est offerte avec une
pleine.pleine confiance dans vos talents et votre attachement
à notre-Pays où vous avez laissé un de honorable
Souvenir, est dans la part que vous allez prendre
à sa meilleure présentation parmi les Puissances.
Amies réunies à Chicago dans cette fête du
progrès et de la reconnaissance des deux
hémisphères à la mémoire de Christophe Columb.
Je vous annonce, au surplus, que Monsieur
Chs. A. Preston, sucrier Secrétaire de la Légation
d'Haïti à Washington, est nommé second
Commissionnaire à cette Exposition.
Ci-joint votre commission en la
Susdite qualité.
Veuillez agrée, Monsieur, l'assurances
de ma haute considération.
Le Secrétaire d'État des Relations Extérieures
C. Archin2
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Relations,
Port au Prince, February II, 1892 SIR:
I hasten to announce to you that HIS EXCELLENCE, THE PRESIDENT
OF HAITI, has nade choice of you to be FULL COMMISSIONER of
The REPUBLIC of HAITI, at The Universal Exposition at Chicago.
The choice of the First Magistrate of Our Republic of HAITI,
at the Universal Exposition at Chicago,
The choice of the First Magistrate of our Republic,
has been inspired, and I am happy to openly say it, by that sentiment
of patriotic sympathy and admiration which manifested itself
in our nation, for the remarkable man whose rigorous word has recently
defended her, with convincing eloquence, in the midst of
great America.
Let us hope, Honorable Sir, that your generous words in favor
of Haiti, which You have learned to know and esteem, will be heard
by the entire world and will powerfully contribute in making appreciated
at its just value, this young country, still in search of
her way in civilization. Your presence at the Exposition in Chicago,
in which the Republic will endeavor to occupy a place worthy
of her, and of the counsels that you have given her, will, in the [*1132*]public attention, emphasize and add to the good opinion which she
has obtained in the Assembly of Nations.
Thus you will be prepared to realize one of your dreams,
so nobly expressed in your ADDRESS of November last, and the ardent
desire of the PRESIDENT OF HAITI and of the country which he
so worthily governs; of seeing our common race definitely rehabited
in numerical consideration through the invitation of Haiti;
and your recompense for the fatigues of this mission, which is offered
you with full confidence in your ability and in your attachment
to our country, where you have left so honorable a remembrance,
is in the part you will take in her better presentation
among the friendly Powers reunited in Chicago in that festival of
progress of the two hemispheres, of the memory of Christopher
Columbus.
I announce to you, moreover, that Mr. Charles A. Preston,
former Secretary of Legation of Haiti, in Washington, is named
Second Commissioner at that Exposition.
Enclosed is your Commission in the above named quality.
Be pleased to accept, SIR, the assurance of my high consideration.
The Secretary of State of Foreign relations.
(name unintelligible)Office of Sec of State for Foreign Relations.
Port au Prince, Feb 11, 1892

 better presentation
among the friendly Powers reunited in Chicago in that festival of
progress of the two hemispheres, of the memory of Christopher
Columbus.
I announce to you, moreover, that Mr. Charles A. Preston,
former Secretary of Legation of Haiti, in Washington, is named
Second Commissioner at that Exposition.
Enclosed is your Commission in the above named quality.
Be pleased to accept, SIR, the assurance of my high consideration.
The Secretary of State of Foreign relations.
(name unintelligible)Office of Sec of State for Foreign Relations.
Port au Prince, Feb 11, 1892 Sir,
I hasten to announce to you that HIs Excelence
The President of Haïti has made choice of you
Commissioner of the Republic of Haïti at the Universal
Exhibition at Chicago.
The choice of the First Magistrate of our Republic
has been inspired, and I am happy to openly say it [openly],
by that sentiment of patriotic sympathy and admiration
which manifested itself in our nation, for the remarkable
man whose rigorous word has recently defended her, with
convincing eloquence, in the midst of great America.
Let us hope, Honorable Sir, that your generous words [voice] in
favor of Haiti, which you have learned to know & to esteem,
will be heard by the entire world and will powerfully contribute
[to the] in making appreciated at its great value, this young country still in the
search of her way to civilization. Your presence at the Exposition
in Chicago in which the Republic will endeavor to occupy a [worthy] place
worthy of her & of the counsel's that you have given her will
in in the public attention, emphasize & add to the good opinion which
she has attained in the assembly of nations.
Thus you will be prepared to realize one of your dreams so nobly
expressed in your address of November last, & the ardent desire of the Pres.
of Haïti & of the country which he so worthily governs, of seeing our common race
definitely rehabilitated in universal consideration through the invitations of Haïti
[*1092*]Your recompence for the fatigues of this mission which is offered you
with full confidence in your ability & in your attachment to our country
where you have left so honorable a remembrance, is in the part you will
take in her better presentation among the friendly Powers reunited at Chicago
in that festival of progress & of the two hemispheres of the memory of
CC.
I announce to you moreover that M. Chas A Preston, former Sec of Legation
of H. in W. is named 2nd com. at that Ep. Enclosed is your commission in the
above named quality. Be pleased to accept, sir, the assurance of my
high consideration,
The Sec of State of Foreign Relations

 ability & in your attachment to our country
where you have left so honorable a remembrance, is in the part you will
take in her better presentation among the friendly Powers reunited at Chicago
in that festival of progress & of the two hemispheres of the memory of
CC.
I announce to you moreover that M. Chas A Preston, former Sec of Legation
of H. in W. is named 2nd com. at that Ep. Enclosed is your commission in the
above named quality. Be pleased to accept, sir, the assurance of my
high consideration,
The Sec of State of Foreign Relations Chapter 25. In further illustration of the progress of the Spirit of Slavery toward supremacy, and
the gradual decline of the spirit of equal liberty which triumphed in the late war
came to us in the early part of this decade in the form of a solemn decision of the supreme
court of the united states, declaring the Civil Rights Law unconstitutional and routinely nulifying
the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. This to us was a blow from an unexpected quarter.
A surrender of the national capital to Davis by traitor hands could hardly have produced a greater
shock than this surrender [of the supreme court] to the spirit of bondage by a Republican
supreme court. I was wounded in the house of my friends. I was for a moment struck dumb
I saw the dark spirit I had thought forever P expelled by the war, peacebly reappear and
repossess itself of the place and power that I had thought sacredly and forever dedicated alone
to the pure spirit of justice and liberty. It not only entered the courts without resistance
but was hailed when yet a far off with a shout of welcome and men in rich robes, with
solemn demeanor conducted it to the highest place on the supreme bench. It was assured
that the negro that fought for the union and now disarmed, that his services to the Republic in the day of
its extremest need, were forgotten, that the citizenship bought by his blood in the war was a sham -- that
his civil rights could be destroyed with the point of a pen. With this assurance of welcome this
dark spirit assured an air of composure and proceeded to lay down his black law
to the land as in the olden time when the court was presided over by chief justice
Taney. There was only one face that did not smile, only one voice that refused shout
welcome, only one hand that was not extended. only one form that did not bow
to that dark majesty - and that face, voice, hand and form belonged to [was] the Honorable
John M. Harlan. He alone dared to stand for justice, [and] Liberty and law.HYPPOLITE, PRESIDENT OF HAITI;
ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS WILL COME, SALUTING;
That our Government has accepted the invitation of a
The United States of America to participate in the Universal Exposition which will take place in Chicago, and that he engages to t
take measure that our Government shall be represented;
Having full and entire confidence in the ability, zeal and
devotion of Mr. Frederick Douglass, former Minister Resident of the
United States of America, at Port au Prince, We have decided to name him, and by these presents do name him
FIRST COMMISSIONER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI, TO THE EFFECT THAT
HE IS TO REPRESENT HER AT THE ABOVE NAMED EXPOSITION and to take,
under the reserve of our ratification, the decisions necessary in
order to contribute, with the representatives of interested Powers,
to the accomplishment of the object of that Exposition.
In evidence of which, we have, with our hand, signed the
present Full Powers, in affixing thereto the Seal of our Republic.
Done at the national Palace of Port au Prince, the 8th, of February 1892; the eighty ninth year of Independence.
HYPPOLITE
By the President.
The Secretary of State of Foreign Relations.
Hyppolite, Pres. of H.
To all by whom these presents will come, saluting,

 ratification, the decisions necessary in
order to contribute, with the representatives of interested Powers,
to the accomplishment of the object of that Exposition.
In evidence of which, we have, with our hand, signed the
present Full Powers, in affixing thereto the Seal of our Republic.
Done at the national Palace of Port au Prince, the 8th, of February 1892; the eighty ninth year of Independence.
HYPPOLITE
By the President.
The Secretary of State of Foreign Relations.
Hyppolite, Pres. of H.
To all by whom these presents will come, saluting, that our Gov. has accepted the invitation of the U.S.,
of America to participate in the Universal Exposition that shall
convene at Chicago, & that he engages to take measures that
our Gov shall be represented;
Having full of & entire confidence in the ability, zeal &
devotion of Mr. F.D. former Minister Resident of the U.S. of America
at Port au Prince.
We have decided to name him & by those present [we will name] [to name] do name
him 1st Com of the Gov. of H. to the effect that he is to represent her
at the above named Exposition & to take, under the reserve
of our ratification, the decisions necessary in order to contribute
with the Representatives of interested Powers, to the accomplishment
of the object of that Exposition.
In evidence of which, we have, with our hand, signed
the present full powers, in [set] affixing thereto the seal of
our Republic.
Done at the Nat. Palace of Port au Prince, the 8 Feb. 1892,
the 89 year of Independence.
Hyppolite.
Hon Mr. President
The Sec of State for Foreign Relations. [*enclosure
in
Sect of State on
Foreign Relations
to F.D. 2/11/92*]
[*1092-A*]HENRY C. McLEAR. CASPER KENDALL.
LANDAUS, COACHES,
LANDAULETS,
COUPES, BROUGHAMS,
ROCKAWAYS,
PARK PHAETONS,
BUGGIES.
MCLEAR & KENDALL
CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS
CORNER NINTH AND KING STREETS.
216, 218 AND 220 NORTH BROAD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
REPOSITORIES
COR. MEETING AND WENTWORTH STREETS.
CHARLESTON, S.C.
Wilmington, Del. FEBRUARY 13TH, 1892.
Hon. FREDERICK DOUGLASS
WASHINGTON
D.C.
Dear Sir: ---
Your favor of the 12th. inst. together with check for $170.75
has been received, for which we are very much obliged. We hope that when you
are again in need of anything in our line that we may be favored with your
orders.
Very respectfully yours
McLear & Kendall
[*1134*]1
New York Feb 15th 1892.
Mrs. Helen Douglass,
Dear Madam,
I
received your card this morning,
and if I had of remained in
Washington, would have applied
for admission, but I am so
pleasantly situated in Cooper
Union, that I would dislike
changing especially after being
so nicely treated by both students
and teachers, I know
the former know nothing of the
prejudice that I have come in
[*1133 2*]
contact with in Washington, so I really
appreciate their kindness the
more. I reached New York Saturday
Feb. 6th and through kindness
of Mrs. Dr. [Crummel?] was
made very cozy and comfortable
at a pleasant boarding place.
Monday morning, I started for
Cooper Union, expecting to enter
and pay for my tuition; as people
are not allowed to enter
in the middle of the session.
After a very pleasant conversation
with Mrs. Carter, the Principal
of the Woman's Art Dept.,
I presented Mr. Douglass's, Dr.
[Crummel's?] and Rev. F. Grinke's
letters after reading them she
exclaimed Well! You have been
treated scandalously, we make
no difference here, and as you3

mel?] was
made very cozy and comfortable
at a pleasant boarding place.
Monday morning, I started for
Cooper Union, expecting to enter
and pay for my tuition; as people
are not allowed to enter
in the middle of the session.
After a very pleasant conversation
with Mrs. Carter, the Principal
of the Woman's Art Dept.,
I presented Mr. Douglass's, Dr.
[Crummel's?] and Rev. F. Grinke's
letters after reading them she
exclaimed Well! You have been
treated scandalously, we make
no difference here, and as you3 have been treated so badly, and
doubtless been discouraged in
your work; I will make an
exception in your case, and
admit you without pay into
the cast class. I cannot express
in writing how I felt, or what
I said, I know for a few moments
I was so overcome that
I could hardly express myself
at all. Tell Mr. Douglass that
I must thank you and him
again for that grand letter.
There are about two hundred
pupils in the cast class, we
are divided off into alcoves of
about forty, and our easels are
closely wedged together, three or
four pupils working from
the same cast. I have been
busy studying out the features4 tures of the cast of Eve, and
have succeeded in geting quite
good outline, and shall commence
puting in the shadows
this week. We have a free lecture
every Wednesday, the last
was on Grecian Architecture
and was explained by the
aid of Stereoscoptical views,
it was very instructive, Thursday
we had a very interesting
lecture by Mrs. Cara La Favre.
The subject was Physical Culture
in Art, according to the
Delsarte Theory, it was both5 amusing as well as instructive,
and I enjoyed it immensely, and
joined heartily in the applause
which greeted her when she closed
her remarks. There is an
Art Library connected with
the institution and following
your advice, I spend a portion
of each day in reading works
of Art. I have commenced to
read Ruskins Mornings in
Italy, and was amused with
his descriptions of Ghirlandjo's
frescos representing the Birth
of the Virgin, and his crit-6 icism upon it, also his high
admiration of Giotto. But I
will weary you if I continue
so will stop. I want to thank
you for the interest that you
and Mr. Douglass have manifested
in my case, and I shall
endeavour by close application
to be worthy of the kindness
you both have rendered me.
With kindest regards to
Mr. Douglass and yourself,
I am
Respectfully
Annie E Walker
107 McDougal St.
New York
N.Y.219 West 24th Street.
New York, February 16th, 1892 Hon. Frederick Douglass,
Anacosta, D.C. Sear Sir: --
The "Committee on Invitations" take particular pleasure in
extending to you a cordial invitation to be present at the fourth
annual banquet of the "John Peterson Association", which will take
place at the Club-house of the "Society of Sons of New York" on
the evening of March 17th, 1892. The Committee begs me to say, that they will be pleased to
have you respond to a toast of your own selection, and advise them
of the subject of the same. If I might be pardoned a word (sotto
voce) I would suggest that you accept the invitation. You will
find an appreciative gathering of the best men of our race in this
State, who will try to make the evening one of the pleasant remembrances
of your life.

 at the Club-house of the "Society of Sons of New York" on
the evening of March 17th, 1892. The Committee begs me to say, that they will be pleased to
have you respond to a toast of your own selection, and advise them
of the subject of the same. If I might be pardoned a word (sotto
voce) I would suggest that you accept the invitation. You will
find an appreciative gathering of the best men of our race in this
State, who will try to make the evening one of the pleasant remembrances
of your life. I claim the privilege of the afore-going suggestion by reason
of my acquaintance with your son, and the success I have achieved
in making myself unpleasant to a certain set of negroes in this
country, who believe the only way to fame or favor (without the
possession of brains) is to "criticise Fred Douglass." [*1136*]Kindly favor me with a reply, and oblige
Yours truly,
C. W. Anderson
Chairman.130 Rye Hill Newcastle
England
Feb. 16/92 Dear Friend
F. Douglass I was indeed
glad when another
letter from "FD" was put
into my hands after so
many months of silence
that letter was read
with much interest but
sad to say - it did not
satisfy me altogether.
I wanted to know
more of yourselves and
your doings in all these
months - for I neither
knew whether you had
returned to Hayti
when you went there
and how long you
remained, but especially
whether the hot climate
affected your health
as in the previous [post?] My sister Anna said
the "letter had been
written by me [unanswered?] [*1135*]But that was not any case
chosen for altho the writing
was unusually small
it seemed like J Ds own
hand - Let me here say
how pleased my sister was
to read it and to hear
of thee again She sent
a warm message in return
which had I written at
the time - I should have
enclosed - so please accept
it - She is very fairly
well in health - but does
not get out at present
I took tea with her a week
ago - when she was very
bright - She keeps very
busy in philanthope objects
and publishes many
useful little papers & Books
She is very happy in her
old age - but look'ng to the
teermination with almost
"longing eye" - She has Goethe
and a bright play
just begun - She is not
a common character but
one that "brightens and
"hightens - as time [tolls a]
wears away" —
As for myself I am thankful
to say that while so
many have been struck down with Influenza
I and my little household
have thus far escaped
I was sorry to find it
was not so with you - It
is a peculiarly trying
disease I think - leaving
such sad effects behind it
I do hope you have not
experienced these - but
have been favored to receives
your usual state
of health - It was a very
awkward seizure in a
"public meeting - I believe
it often comes on suddenly
you would be more
vulnerable probably - from
the warm climate of Hayti
you should take this
into account in moveing
along in cold weather

I and my little household
have thus far escaped
I was sorry to find it
was not so with you - It
is a peculiarly trying
disease I think - leaving
such sad effects behind it
I do hope you have not
experienced these - but
have been favored to receives
your usual state
of health - It was a very
awkward seizure in a
"public meeting - I believe
it often comes on suddenly
you would be more
vulnerable probably - from
the warm climate of Hayti
you should take this
into account in moveing
along in cold weather I am much interested
in the New Book we
are likely to have - as
a supplement to the history
of thy Life's - It always
seemed to me a deserable
thing - and I have nodoubt it will be very
interesting - it is a fitting
employment too in my
old age - when bodily
strength is diminished
in some degree - and with
my able helper by my
side - I hope it will be
a pleasant & profitable
employment - I shall
look forward with pleasure
to its appearance
Did you receive a little
Book on the English Anti
Slavery Movement - I sent
one which has been
published recently - which
I thought thou might
like to possess - as a “Record
of life past times -
The stirring times
of the present
crowd out much that
is interesting in the past
history of the world, even
in one of our age
There are mighty
problems occupyingattention in our own
little England - as well
as Africa on which she
has a hold and with
that hold many obligations.
The only reason
I see for any such territory
is that enlightenment
may follow
which may benefit the
native races - I very
much hope that the
railways there may
have a great effect
in checking, if not
abolishing slavery - for
I read that they are
chiefly captured for the
conveyance of ivory &c
to the coast - which
if railways doing it
there will be no need
for poor human beings
to be taken from their
homeland - This is a
bright prospect - and is
taking hold of the english
mind - I do not meanmean philanthopically
altogether - for perhaps
the chief inducement
is mercantile - as surely
however as Englishmen
get hold of a county
so surely will slavery
disappear - I believe -
Many new avenues to
commerce will - it is
expected, be opened out
in Africa - So that the
nations will be looking
to have legitimate occupation
for their own
benefit - Their chapels
and schools &c must
follow - so that it is
a cheering prospect
for that once "dark
country"
You have your problems
and we have
ours - yours is the
freedman and their
just rights - (oh when
will the day come

 as surely
however as Englishmen
get hold of a county
so surely will slavery
disappear - I believe -
Many new avenues to
commerce will - it is
expected, be opened out
in Africa - So that the
nations will be looking
to have legitimate occupation
for their own
benefit - Their chapels
and schools &c must
follow - so that it is
a cheering prospect
for that once "dark
country"
You have your problems
and we have
ours - yours is the
freedman and their
just rights - (oh when
will the day come when they will get them?
Our's at present, seems
the Labour Question
and there is a great
conflict going on here
just now - when many
thousands men are
idle - and many
more thousands are
threatened with a "lock
out" unless some remedy
be found out - It is
not so much between
Masters and Men as
it is between one set of
men and another
in the same factory
They choose to take the
lead - as to which class
should do some particular
work - when they
cant agree then they
strike - and others of
the "union" have to
support them - in
"coming out also" - Thusat present the whole
ship buildng & engineerng
trades are crippled if
not stopt - Newer shipping
is checked, - so are
colliers - and almost
every other trade is
threatened - We
fervently hope - they
may be averted - but
the Masters are powerless
in settling these
disputes between the
men - and they threaten
to make a general
'lock out' soon - unless
there is a settlement -
The consequence will
be - Work will be
taken away - from the
Tyne (and taken) - to other
places - to the geneal
stagnation of Trade
and to the certain
ruin of very manyThis may seem a very local
affair - but it is not so -
"The real question is between
capital & labor
thughout the county - and
I believe Parliamnt will
have to take it up
broadly, - so as to see what
remedy can be applied -
to check the [d?mnaton]
of the men -They wont
agree to arbitratn
till they are forced to,
and then the mischief
has been done Another mighty problem
now is that
of Education - Rapid
changes and strides
have been makng
lately and these
shake to the centre
public Institutes
of old standng - but
this is too wideand too national a
question to enter upon
in a letter especially
to an American -
I want to come
nearer Home - and
to learn more of your
surroundings - How are
thy young people getting
on? and Mrs Douglass
Mother" Is she with
you and her daughter
Remember I am
a woman - and like
womanish things -
I want to picture
you as you live at
your own home
It is all very well
to hear about Hayti &c.
but that is not all
I want to know -
Especially, I want to hear how you are
in health - I thought
the last was only a
low report of you lately
so please satisfy me
by an early letter.
A change of thought
from thy Book - may
be like a run in
the Garden, perhaps
(minus the [park area?])
My cousin, sisters
are pretty well and
they always like to
hear of you - and send
kind messages - which
in the long intervals
of time I fail to
give in their freshness
Several of their nieces
have had to go ahead
for Neuille - a large
party to Teneriffewhere they are enjoying
weather like July -
others are in Italy
and others in the South
of France with a nephew
in Australia

 early letter.
A change of thought
from thy Book - may
be like a run in
the Garden, perhaps
(minus the [park area?])
My cousin, sisters
are pretty well and
they always like to
hear of you - and send
kind messages - which
in the long intervals
of time I fail to
give in their freshness
Several of their nieces
have had to go ahead
for Neuille - a large
party to Teneriffewhere they are enjoying
weather like July -
others are in Italy
and others in the South
of France with a nephew
in Australia Our rigourous Springs
send the delicate
ones abroad - but here
they have got a taste
for travel - it is less
difficult to set off from
home I must now lay
down my pen which
has been also rambling
ahead - so with kind
love to Mrs Douglass
and yourself - believe
me as ever dear
Frederick your true
friend Ellen RichardsonSt Paul Feb 18 /92 Hon-ble Fredrick Douglas
Dear Sir
I have no doubt you will
be greatly surprised to
receive a letter from one
who you have not seen or
heard from in years in the
first place I will tell you
who I am hoping you have
not forgotten me or my parents.
I am Mary Adams daughter
of John Adams of New Bedford
Mass I have never had
occasion to bring my self
before you but I have always
remembered you through the
acquaintance that existed
[*1137*]between you and my father and
mother of course I could never
forget you as there is not a
paper that I pick up or read
that your name is not in it
politicaly I hope you have
not lost all remembrance of my
parents if I have faded from
your sight I have taken it
upon myself to write to you
in an hour of need and great
trouble to see if through the
old acquaintance of my
father that you would help
me his daughter out of her
distress I am keeping a hotel
in St. Paul Minn and when
I started one year ago last
spring I had to go in debt to
furnish it and gave a mortgage
on my things I have renewed
the mortgage twice and reduced
it down to one Hundred
dollars which was five Hundred
my mortgage comes due Feb 23
I am afraid I shall be compelled
to lose my things unless I can raise
the amount I have no claim
on your generosity or friendship
personally but I thought as an
old acquaintance of my parents
I would see if I could get a
little assistance I can raise all
but twenty five dollars and
if you would lend me that
amount I will pay you back
in less than two months and
with whatever interest you think
would be right please give this
your attention as I am in greattrouble and hope you will
try and help me if it is
a possible thing hoping
you will give this your
attention I send one of
my cards that you may
know what I am doing
the Republican convention
is to be held in Minneapolis
in June and if you should
you come there if you are
spared will you come and
see me or may I come and
see you I should be so
pleased to meet you the
last time I saw you was
in Rochester I met you in
your Carriage on your way
home that you may know
what I represent to you as
F. A. Hammond
Plaza Hotel
Located at the main entrance to Central Park
5th Avenue 58 & 59 Streets
Absolutely Fire Proof
American & European Plans New York, February 18, 1892 Dear Mr. Douglass, I want to snatch time enough to
write a few words concerning a scheme in
which I am considerably interested and
in the behalf of which I should be glad
to arouse your interest, and secure the aid
of your influence. The thing proposed is the establishment
of a school for manual training
for colored people, to be entirely under
their own control and for their own benefit.
It is thought to locate it in Manassas,
Va. and to begin it in a modest way
and enlarge as means are provided. The need for such aids to help [the]
our worthy but injustly treated friends

, I want to snatch time enough to
write a few words concerning a scheme in
which I am considerably interested and
in the behalf of which I should be glad
to arouse your interest, and secure the aid
of your influence. The thing proposed is the establishment
of a school for manual training
for colored people, to be entirely under
their own control and for their own benefit.
It is thought to locate it in Manassas,
Va. and to begin it in a modest way
and enlarge as means are provided. The need for such aids to help [the]
our worthy but injustly treated friends [*1139*]to secure industrial independence seems
to me self evident, and I would be glad,
were I wealthy enough, to endow a hundred
of them. But small beginnings
often lead to great results, and my
friend Miss Jane E. Thompson, has, I
think, taken hold of the problem in a
sensible fashion that is likely to lead
to success. She wishes to obtain the
help of your name to testimonials which
may aid her and her co-laborers in obtaining,
from wealthy Bostonians and others,
financial aid to set the enterprise on
foot; and I take pleasure in writing you
to say that I feel entirely at liberty to
vouch for the entire disinterestedness of
Miss Thompson, and for a discreet and
proper use of any credentials entrusted
to her.
I am not sure whether you have ever
met Miss Thompson, but her interest
in helping the poor of her native state
is most genuine, and deserves practical
seconding, and her delightful enthusiasm
awakens, usually, a warm desire to help.
I will esteem it a personal favor ifNo. 2 F.A. HAMMOND PLAZA HOTEL LOCATED AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO CENTRAL PARK
5TH AVENUE 58 & 59 STREETS
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF
American & European Plans. New York, 189_ If you will write to Miss Thompson, whose
address is 934 T Street N.W. Washn
and tell her when you could conveniently
see her and let her explain to you how
she would like to use your name to
further her plans. She is in office, so
could not readily, I suppose, be away
from 9 to 4 o'clock.
Before I close this hasty scrawl, written
after midnight after a busy day, I want
to thank Mrs. Douglass and yourself for
the delightful hour we spent at your
house last Sunday. It was most truly
an hour of mental enjoyment, and mental
improvement, and I shall not soon
forget the impression it made upon
my mind. The fact, also, that it was [1139]your 75th anniversary has helped to produce
an indelible impression. I only
regret that Mrs. Solberg could not
share my pleasure.
Pray allow me to subscribe myself,
with great respect and much affection.
Very truly yours
Thorvald Solberg.Secrétairerie d'Etat
des
Relations Extérieures. Port-au-Prince le 24 Février 1892 Section de la
[?] [Gle?]
No. 117 Monsieur le Commissaire, Je porte à votre connaissance
que le Ministre-Président des
Etats-Unis d'Amérique, à Portau-Prince, par sa lettre du 11
février courant, m'a transmis la
décision prise par le Comité des
Cérémonies de l'Exposition -
Universelle de Chicago de faire
parvenir une invitation spéciale
aux Gouvernements Etranges, leur
demandant d'envoyer leures Représentants
pour prendre part dans
la ville de Chicago, les 11, 12 et 13
Octobre 1892, aux cérémonies du
Captême des edifices de l'Exposition
Universelle, en mémoire de Colomb.
En
Monsieur Frederick Douglass
Commissaire du Gouvernement d'Haïti
à l'Exposition Universelle de ChicagoEn votre qualité de Commissaire
du Gouvernement d'Haïti à ladite
Exposition, vous voudrez bien vous
rendre aux cérémonies de 11, 12 et 13
Octobre 1892, selon la gracieuse invitation
qui en a été faite à notre Gouvernement.
Agréez, Monsieur le Commissaire,
les assurances de ma haute considération.
Le Secrétaire d'Etat des
Relations Extérieures
C Archin Office of U.S. Superintendent of Immigration.

 l'Exposition Universelle de ChicagoEn votre qualité de Commissaire
du Gouvernement d'Haïti à ladite
Exposition, vous voudrez bien vous
rendre aux cérémonies de 11, 12 et 13
Octobre 1892, selon la gracieuse invitation
qui en a été faite à notre Gouvernement.
Agréez, Monsieur le Commissaire,
les assurances de ma haute considération.
Le Secrétaire d'Etat des
Relations Extérieures
C Archin Office of U.S. Superintendent of Immigration. BARGE OFFICE
New York City Feb 24, 1892 Dear Mr. Douglass Am working hard for
a crowd for March 14th at Cooper Union
with bright prospects of success. Will you
kindly come over Saturday afternoon so you
can rest on Sunday, besides I want to have
a half dozen of the leading papers interview you
as this will be a great service and a valued assistance.
I am counting on it. Will you also send me
any notices I could use for advertising such as
you may have used before. Also kindly inform
me where I can secure about fifty copies of
the large picture of you. I want to put them
where they will do the most good. [*1140*]Office of U.S. Superintendent of Immigration
Barge Office
New York City, --189-. Miss Annie also informed me that you had
received a very complimentary letter from
His Excellency President Hippolite, she said
however I was to make no use of this information.
Would you not allow me to use this letter or at
least the information a few days before the
lecture. I want you to receive a royal
reception here, for the people here unfortunately
have a very poor opinion of colored people
and I want them to see our bright and particular
star shining in dazzling and undimmed luster.
A star of the very first magnitude. With kindest regards I am
Your humble friend
Charles S. MorrisWashington D.C.
Friday 25/92 My Dear Sir ~ I hope that the announcement
of my candidacy for
the Republican Presidential
nomination may not strike
you as too immodest or
as altogether chimerical. It must I think have become
evident to all that
there must be a return to
[to] the fundamental issues
which stir the heart and touch
the life of the Republic or there
is nothing but assured defeat
for us next Autumn. There are those who think my
candidacy essential or I should
not be in the field. Very Resply Yours, Henry W. Blair Hon. Frederick Douglass
[*1141*]402 Monroe St.
Peoria, Ill.
February 25th 92 Hon. Frederick Douglass Dear Sir. As a
member of a Literary Club, it
has been my fortune to be
appointed to present to our
Club a sketch of the life
of Hon Frederick Douglass --
one of "Americas Notable Men". I have read your own book
"My Bondage and My Freedom".
Also in "Twelve Americans" by
Howard Carroll a short sketch
of your life. When I was a child [*1142*]2
I heard you deliver an address
in Peoria, and was much impressed
by your stirring words,
and the story of your life.
I noticed with regret that you
were ill this Winter. My father
was a warm sympathizer with
your Cause and yourself. Now
these are my materials to work
up my paper. Can you give me
any items since the sketch was
published that would enable me
to present a more complete story.
My audience will be a most
empathetic one, and a few words
from you would be most gratefully3. received by them all. If I
am asking too much of you,
do not trouble about answering
this letter - and I will do
the very best that I can, to
at least do slight justice to
a character that will always
shine in American History
and also in the Worlds History. Respectfully and sincerely
Mrs William Jack 402 Monroe St
Peoria
Ill.