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Hiram Corliss to Frederick Douglass, January 29, 1853

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The following letter has just been received from our friend, Hiram Corliss, of Union Village. We sincerely sympathize with the friends there in their present affliction:

UNION VILLAGE, Jan. 29th, 1853.

MR. F. DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR:—Your kind acceptance of our invitation was received with much joy, and we are looking forward with hopes of good being done for oppressed humanity. But a severe dispensation of Providence has interposed, and renders the holding of that meeting in our place hopeless. For some two or three weeks, the small pox has been among us, and I have defered to write you in hopes that the disease might stop. But a number of new cases of real small pox has taken place within two days, and there is an almost certainty of its still encreasing. So we have now concluded to write you not to come at the time appointed; and if we should have it this spring, we will write you. No people would come in from the country; they are under great excitement. Believe me as ever yours and for humanity,
HIRAM CORLISS.

Creator

Corliss, Hiram

Date

1853-01-29

Description

Hiram Corliss to Frederick Douglass. PLSr: Frederick DouglassP, 4 February 1853. Thanks him for accepting an invitation to speak at Union Village, New York.

Publisher

This document was calendared in the published volume and has not been published in full before.

Collection

Frederick Douglass' Paper

Type

Letters

Publication Status

Unpublished

Source

Frederick Douglass' Paper