My Dear GayGay, Sydney Howard

Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Sydney Howard Gay (1814-88) abandoned the study of law in his father's office to embrace the non-violent principles of Garrisonian abolitionists. After lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society in the early 1840s, Gay edited its official New York City-based newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard, from 1844 to 1858. From there he went to work for the New York Tribune, serving as that Republican party paper's managing editor during the Civil War. Gay held the same position at the Chicago Tribune (1868-71) and then devoted most of his energies to writing popular histories and biographies. Raimund Erhard Goerler, "Family, Self, and Anti-Slavery: Sydney Howard Gay and the Abolitionist Commitment" (Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1975); ACAB, 2:618; NCAB, 2:494; DAB, 7:195. ,

I beg you will State in your next—that in consequence of domestic—and other engagements I will not be able to meet any appointments in Western New york before the first of Nov.

I have just reached home to day and feel greatly tired out,—I have before me any quantity of transatlantic Correspondence.

A letter from S. Brooke dated Cleveland—7 ultimo states that frind G. has been worse since last accounts but is now better.

Yours Sincerely

Frederick Douglass

Lynn 12. Oct