Letter From Fred. Douglass.

The secretary of the Kansas Historical Society, the other day, received the following letter from U.S. Marshall Douglass.

Marshall's Office

Washington, D.C. March 25, '79

My Dear Sir:—I am obliged to you, both for your kind and generous letter, and for the pamphlet Biennial Report of the Kansas State Historical Society. You do me right and justice in rating me among the early friends of Free Kansas. I regard the conflict there as the turning point in the civil and political history of the United States. Free Kansas, meant a free west, and a free south and a free nation. I am sorry I cannot send you any documents worthy a place in your library. My paper published in Rochester, New York, during the period of the Kansas peril and much devoted to Kansas affairs, was a few years ago destroyed by fire. I lost twelve volumes of it. I have never been able to recover from other sources, any of the missing volumes save one. I will, however, look among my books and papers and should I be so fortunate as to find any thing which may be of value to the Kansas State Historical Society, I will promptly and gladly send it.

Respectfully yours,

FRED'K DOUGLASS.

F. G. ADAMS, Secretary.