CHARLES HAPP¹A thorough search of the 1855 New York Census and the 1860 U.S. Census uncovered no indication of a Charles Happ living in Auburn, New York, at the time this letter was written. Franklin B. Hough, (Albany, N.Y., 1857); Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census 1860, Returns for the State of New York (Washington, D.C., 1864). TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Auburn, [N.Y.] 15 Oct[ober] 1860.

Mr. F. DOUGLASS:—

DEAR SIR—

I take the opportunity to address you a few lines as follows. I have been
informed that you had an onely daughter and that you desire her to marry
a whight man; whereupon you giv $15,000 or $20,000 dollars to any re-
spectable whight man that would marry her and cherish her through life.
If there is any truth in this report, P. S. let me know and I will marry your
daughter on these conditions, and will endeavor to make myself agreeable.

Yours respectfully,
CHARLES HAPP.

PLSr: Rochester , 17 October 1860. Reprinted in New York ,
7 November 1860; ., 9 November 1860; , 10 November 1860.