No. 1716 Locust St.

Phila. 12. Sep 1866.

Dont talk so, dear Frederick.—The mass of the
Convention was right.—heroic!—& your own
kingly presence & appeal brought wonders!—Still, I thank my God for the opportunity to speak the word for the dear Cause in Salon,—how much

there is in those two
words—in Salon!

Are you at home for
a rest,—or do you presently
go away to work? I wish
I knew of your whereabouts
next season, in the lull
that I might not go all
round & about, & never
meet you.—To see a
friend in those large
spaces, is like the
"shadow of a great rock in a weary land."

You say that you have
not the time to write long
letters.—that I can
readily believe;—but when
you say that I have not
time to read long ones
from you Ah—ha!—-

Give me a chance.

When you care to let me hear from you, I blush if you do so,—

MotherDickinson, Mary Edmundson

Mary Edmundson Dickinson (1799-1889), a Quaker abolitionist, was married to John Dickinson, a cousin of Founder of John Dickinson. They married in 1832 and had three children, including Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Papers of Anna E. Dickinson; Delaware Gazette and State Journal, 16 May 1889) & SueDickinson, Susan Evelyn

Susan Evelyn Dickinson (1832-1915) was an American journalist and the older sister of abolitionist Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. send love, & I
am always faithfully Yours Frederick Douglass.

Anna E DickinsonDickinson, Anna Elizabeth

Philadelphia-born and Quaker-educated Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932) began her career as a working woman, employed first as a copyist, then as a schoolteacher, and finally in the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. At the age of eighteen she first appeared on lecture platforms as a feminist and anti-slavery crusader. After she lost her job at the mint in December 1861 for accusing General George B. McClellan of treason, she became a full-time lecturer. Throughout the Civil War, Dickinson delivered Republican campaign speeches in New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania, and on 16 January 1864 she spoke before a distinguished audience of statesmen and military officials, including President Lincoln, in the hall of the House of Representatives. At the end of the war she joined the lyceum lecture circuit, speaking on behalf of Radical Republican Reconstruction measures and women's rights, and against Mormonism, large corporations, and craft unions. In the early 1870s Dickinson's popularity as an orator waned, and her attempts at comebacks, first as a playwright and actress in the late 1870s and early 1880s and then as a political orator during the 1888 election, proved unsuccessful. She spent the last forty years of her life in obscurity. Giraud Chester, Embattled Maiden: The Life of Anna Dickinson (New York, 1951); NCAB, 3:109; DAB, 21:244-45; NAW, 1:475-76.