THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS

Series Three: Correspondence

VOLUME 2: 1853–1865

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Frederick Douglass, c. 1853. Frontispiece, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries.

THE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
PAPERS
Series Three: Correspondence
Volume 2: 1853–1865

John R. McKivigan, Editor

Associate Editors: L. Diane Barnes, Jeffery A. Duvall
Assistant Editors: James A. Hanna, Heather L. Kaufman,
Whitney R. Smith
Research Assistants: Eamonn P. Brandon, Bridget Brown,
Kate Burzlaff, Randolph Gaines, Austen Hurt,
Rebecca A. Pattillo, Alex Smith, Andrew Wiley,
Lauren Zachary

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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Mary F. Berry
Richard J. M. Blackett
David W. Blight
Robert Hall
Stanley Harrold
Nancy A. Hewitt
Howard R. Lamar
Robert S. Levine
John Stauffer

CONTENTS xi

Annie Douglass to Frederick Douglass, 7 December 1859 287
Frederick Douglass to Elihu Burritt, 31 December 1859 288

1860
Frederick Douglass to Maria G. Porter, 11 January 1860 291
Frederick Douglass to Amy Post, January 1860 294
Frederick Douglass to George Thompson, 18 February 1860 299
Frederick Douglass to Charles Sumner, 9 June 1860 300
Frederick Douglass to James Redpath, 29 June 1860 301
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, 2 July 1860 303
Frederick Douglass to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 25 August 1860 305
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, 7 September 1860 306
Frederick Douglass to “A Friend in England,” 9 October 1860 307
Frederick Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison, 15 October 1860 311
Charles Happ to Frederick Douglass, 15 October 1860 313
Frederick Douglass to Charles Happ, 16 October 1860 313
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, 18 December 1860 314
Frederick Douglass to Sarah Southam Cash, December 1860 316

1861
Frederick Douglass to William Buell Sprague, 1 May 1861 318
Frederick Douglass to Susan B. Anthony, 5 June 1861 319
Martha Waldo Brown Greene to Frederick Douglass,
8 November 1861 320
Julia Griffiths Crofts to Frederick Douglass, 6 December 1861 322
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, 22 December 1861 325
Maria Lamb Webb to Frederick Douglass, 31 December 1861 326

1862
Frederick Douglass to “A Friend in England,” 7 March 1862 328
Frederick Douglass to George Barrell Cheever, 5 April 1862 329
Frederick Douglass to Charles Sumner, 8 April 1862 331
Theodore Tilton to Frederick Douglass, 30 April 1862 332
W. W. Tate to Frederick Douglass, 2 June 1862 333
Alexander Crummell to Frederick Douglass, 12 July 1862 337
Austin Willey to Frederick Douglass, 26 July 1862 340
Frederick Douglass to Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, 27 August 1862 341
Rosetta Douglass to Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass,
31 August 1862 342
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, 8 September 1862 347

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Acknowledgments

Producing another scholarly edited volume of the correspondence of Fred
erick Douglass was a multiyear endeavor in which numerous individuals
and institutions provided significant assistance to the staff of this project.
We apologize if we fail in these brief acknowledgments to thank each of
them as fully as they deserve.

Work on the collection of the documents reproduced in this volume
began at the project’s first institutional home, Yale University, under the
direction of our first editor, John W. Blassingame. It was continued at
our second home, West Virginia University, and culminated at Indiana
University–Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), where the Doug
lass Papers project relocated in the summer of 1998. The libraries at all
three institutions assisted us significantly. Documents were called to our
attention by staff members at repositories or archives acknowledged in in
dividual source notes. Former staff members James H. Cook at West Vir
ginia University and Rachael Drenvnosky at IUPUI merit special thanks
for managing our swelling databases as the number of letters to and from
Douglass grew.

Selecting the correspondence to reproduce and edit likewise spanned
a considerable number of years, beginning at West Virginia University.
Besides the individuals listed on our title pages, Emily Hall, Peter P.
Hinks, Heather Hutchinson, and Sarah K. Wagner all merit acknowledg
ment for their participation in this task. Special assistance was supplied
by Norman Dann and A. J. Aiseirithe in our document transcription and
verification process.

At IUPUI, the School of Liberal Arts and the Departments of History
and English deserve thanks for their institutional support. A special debt
is owed to the following people at IUPUI for their assistance with the proj
ect: Robert Barrows, Didier Gondola, Nathan Houser, Megan Liu, Kara
Petersen, David Pfeifer, Rob Rebein, Martha Rujuwa, Thomas Upton, and
Marianne Wokeck.

Gratitude is also due a number of specific individuals and organiza
tions. Timothy Connelly and Lucy Barber from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, along with the staff of the National

Endowment for the Humanities, supplied valuable advice to the Doug lass Papers project over the years. Ann Gordon, director of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton–Susan B. Anthony Papers, assisted the Douglass Papers staff in locating documents. Richard G. Carlson, former member of the
Douglass Papers staff, helped formulate the editorial procedures for this
series. Professor Jonathan R. Eller, senior textual editor at the Institute
for American Thought at IUPUI, also helped significantly in finalizing
textual-editing procedures. Emily Baker and Lynette Taylor, research as
sistants, supplied valuable help in the final phases of work on this vol
ume. Finally, we would like to thank Laura Davulis, our former editor
at Yale University Press, and Stacey M. Robertson and Wilson J. Moses,
our scholarly reviewers for that press, for their advice and encouragement.

Abbreviations and Sigla

Abbreviations

Whenever possible, these abbreviations follow the standard Library of
Congress symbols for libraries and other repositories. Additional abbrevi
ations of other repositories and publications follow the forms established
by earlier series of the Douglass Papers, provided they appear three or
more times in this volume; all abbreviations for publications appear in
earlier series.

The following sigla are used to describe the handwriting, form, and sig
nature of each letter published in this volume or entered into the volume’s
comprehensive calendar of correspondence.

The first two capital letters describe the written form of the document:

AL: autograph letter (in author’s hand)
HL: handwritten letter by someone other than the author
PL: printed letter (typeset for a newspaper, pamphlet, journal, or
book)
TL: typed letter (typewritten on a machine)

The lowercase letter, when pertinent, describes the state of the letter:

d: draft (a letter composed, but not sent to the intended recipient)
f: fragment (an incomplete letter, with either lost or destroyed com
ponents)
e: excerpt (a partially reprinted letter from either an autograph letter
or a previously published source)

The omission of incidental material in newspaper reprints, such as an in
significant postscript in a reprinted letter, does not render the reprinted
letter an excerpt.

The third capital letter describes the signature:
S: signed by author
Sr: signed with a representation of the author’s signature
I: initialed by the author
Ir: initialed with a representation of the author’s initials

The absence of a third capital letter indicates no signature or representation.
Common examples would thus read ALS (autographed letter signed
by the author) or PLSr (printed letter, signed, with a representation).