Charles A. Fraser to Frederick Douglass, October 30, 1876
Pto Plata October 30 1876
Honble Fred. Douglass
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir!
We have heard much about you, and now feel quite interested in you and the good cause you have always been so zealously engaged in. As our Superintendent Mr Charles A. Fraser is about visiting the U. States we thought it a very suitable opportunity to send you a token of remembrance please then accept this Walking Stick as a Gift from the Sunday School at Pto Plata. May it be a support for many years to your useful life which we desire & pray the Allwise will for many years prolong.
Consul Chas. R. DouglassDouglass, Charles Remond
Charles Remond Douglass (1844–1920), named after the abolitionist Charles Remond, was the youngest of Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass’s sons. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and, like his brothers, was both educated in Rochester and trained by his father in the newspaper office. Like Lewis H. Douglass, Charles enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War, but mainly served with the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, where he was promoted to the rank of first sergeant. After the war, Charles settled in Washington, D.C., and found employment first as a clerk in the Freedmen’s Bureau (1867–69) and later in the Treasury Department (1869–75). After his father purchased the in 1870, Charles acted as a correspondent for the newspaper. In 1871 he served as a clerk to the Santo Domingo Commission, and President Ulysses S. Grant later appointed him consul to Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo. From 1875 to 1879 he was a clerk in the U.S. consulate in Santo Domingo. Returning to the United States in 1879, he entered the West Indies import-export business while living in Corona, New York. In 1882, Charles moved back to Washington, D.C., and took a job as an examiner in the Pension Bureau. He remained there until 1892, when he entered the real estate business. Douglass Papers, ser. 2, 3:860; Douglass Papers, ser. 3, 1:126; McFeely, Frederick Douglass, 239, 257–58, 272; EAAH , 1: 407–08.
often visits the school and has on various occasions addressed us.
With Kind regards believe us to be yours truly.
In behalf of the S. School
Chas A. FraserFraser, Charles A.
Charles A. Fraser (1836-1894) was born in St. Thomas and was a druggist in Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata. He married Sarah Marinda Loguen.
Superint. Wesleyan S. S. Pto Plata