PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE

Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Washington, D.C. April 15. 1874

Hon R. B. ElliotElliott, Robert Brown

Robert Brown Elliott (1842-1884) was born in Liverpool to an American politician of British Afro-Caribbean ethnic background. Trained as a lawyer, he practiced law in Columbia, S.C. and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1871 to 1874. He was the associate editor of the paper, the South Carolina Leader (renamed the Missionary Record in 1868).

My dear Sir:

I desire to thank you for your able, eloquent, and beautiful tribute to our loved honored departed friend Charles Sumner.

As a colored man as well as an American citizen and a man among men, I am proud that one of my race, condemned and scorned for ages, has been able to make a speech in Faneuil Hall, Boston, in all respects so worthy of the place and the occasion, as you have now delivered. The thought brings satisfaction to my heart & to my gray hair.

Truly yours,

Fred'^k Douglass,