FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO JOHNSON M. MUNDY

Washington[,] D.C. 23 March 1880.

MY DEAR SIR:

I am obliged by your note and the Photographs of the Bust.¹Probably a photograph of the plaster cast of Mundy’s bust of Douglass taken by the Rochester photographer John Howe Kent. John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier, eds., (New York, 2015), 84. They are excellent. The more I look at the Bust the better I like it. There is a a fullness
and a completeness about it which I have not often found in that class of
work. Its aged truth strikes at once—and I am content to be made known
through this specimen of your Art to all who may live after me and who
may wish to know how I looked in the world.

I saw our friends on Capitol Hill a day or two ago—spoke kindly of
you—and spoke sincerely, no doubt—

With Great Respect

Yours Truly

FEDK. DOUGLASS.

Johnson M. Mundy Esqr.

Order for the 1. dozen of the Photos. Will send the cash on delivery—

ALS: Frederick Douglass Papers, NRU.