FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO THEODORE TILTON

Rochester[, N.Y.] 22 Nov[ember] 1862[.]

THEODORE TILTON—

My best thanks. and now another favour—please enter me on the [list] of your Exchange. I only see the Independent in our reading room—The “appeal[”]¹Douglass authored the article entitled “The Slave’s Appeal to Great Britain,” published in the 20 November 1862 issue of the New York Independent. was written at the earnest request of a friend in England—and will very likely find its way into many of the Provincial journals in that country—

Our friend Miss Anthony² Susan B. Anthony. is at home watching by the bedside of her father who has been quite ill—but now convalescent.³ Susan B. Anthony’s father, Daniel Anthony (1794-1862), passed away on 25 November 1862. Born in Massachusetts, Anthony had thrived in his home state as a cotton manufacturer, but in the mid-1820s migrated to central New York to manage a cotton mill owned by Supreme Court Justice John Mclean. Bankrupted by the Panic of 1837, Anthony struggled to support his family by farming land near Rochester. A liberal Quaker, Anthony actively supported temperance, abolitionism, and the women’s rights movement. ., 5 December 1862; Alma Lutz, (Boston, 1959), 2,5, 8, 10-15, 98. I am soon to begin a lecturing tour—but hope to be able to visit the contrabands at some point in old Virginia before I enter upon my work. How bravely the rebels hold out.⁴The Confederates launched a series of offensives in the fall of 1862, only to be defeated at Sharpsburg, Maryland (September 17; also known as the Battle of Antietam), Corinth, Mississippi (October 3; the Second Battle of Corinth), and Perryville, Kentucky (October 8). McPherson, , 516-24, 537-45. Oh! [I]f one could strike December from the Calendar. Full of hope and joy, Nevertheless—

Truly your friend

F. DOUGLASS—

HLSr: Frederick Douglass Papers, NRU.