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Boston Public Library
Anti-Slavery (Collection of Distinction)
Letter from Frederick Douglass, Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C., to Robert Adams, March 23, 1888
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Title:
Letter from Frederick Douglass, Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C., to Robert Adams, March 23, 1888
Description:
Frederick Douglass acknowledges Robert Adams’s birthday greetings, and recalls the kindness Adams showed him 47 years earlier in Fall River.
Author:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Addressee:
Adams, Robert
Date:
March 23, 1888
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Adams, Robert
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 20 x 13 cm. and 1 leaf
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h740d82f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Letterhead reads: Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C.
In a folder that states, “Purchased from the fund established by James Lyman Whitney, Bibliographer & Sometimes Librarian.”
Identifier:
4664513
Call #:
MS 1427
Barcode:
39999066766484
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