Front Matter--Abbreviations and Sigla
Abbreviations and Sigla
Abbreviations
Whenever possible, these abbreviations follow the standard Library of Congress symbols for libraries and other repositories. Additional abbreviations for 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.
| ACAB | Appleton ’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| ANB | American National Biography |
| ASB | Anti-Slavery Bugle |
| BDAC | Biographical Directory of the American Congress |
| BFASR | British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter |
| CSmH | Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens |
| CtHSD | Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Historical Foundation |
| CWH | Civil War History |
| DAB | Dictionary of American Biography |
| DANB | Dictionary of American Negro Biography |
| DCB | Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| DHU-MS | Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University |
| DLC | Library of Congress |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| FD | Frederick Douglass |
| FDP | Frederick Douglass ’ Paper |
| InIU | Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis |
| JNH | Journal of Negro History |
| KHi | Kansas Historical Society |
| KWiU | Wichita State University |
| Lib. | Liberator |
| MB | Boston Public Library |
| MCR—Ar | Radcliffe College, Archives |
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ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA
MdAA Hall of Records Commission, Annapolis, Md.
MdHi Maryland Historical Society
MdHM Maryland Historical Magazine
MdTCH Talbot County, Maryland, Courthouse
MeHi Maine Historical Society
MH-H Harvard University, Houghton Library
MHi Massachusetts Historical Society
MiU-C University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library
MVHR Mississippi Valley Historical Review
MWA American Antiquarian Society
NASS National Anti-Slavery Standard
NAW Notable American Women
NbHi Nebraska State Historical Society
NCAB National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
NEQ New England Quarterly
NHB Negro History Bulletin
NHi New York Historical Society
NNC Columbia University
NRU University of Rochester
NS North Star
NSyU Syracuse University
OKeU Kent State University
PaF Pennsylvania Freeman
PHi Historical Society of Pennsylvania
PSC-Hi Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
RH Rochester History
UkOxU-Rh Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Rhodes House
ViU University of Virginia
Sigla Used to Describe Letters
The following sigla are used to describe the handwriting, form, and signature
of each letter published in this volume or entered in the volume’ s comprehensive
calendar of correspondence.
The first two capital letters describe the written form of the document:
AL: autograph letter (written in the 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)
ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA
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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 components)
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 insignificant
postscript in a reprinted letter, does not render the reprinted letter an excerpt.
The third capital letter describes the signature:
S: signed by the 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 (autograph letter signed by
the author) or PLSr (printed letter, signed with a representation).