Carolina R.D. [??ay] north,
Hon.Fredrick Douglass
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir: - 
I received
a copy of your speech "Lessons of the
Hour."  and "The Reason Why" which
you sent me some time ago. I
read them with interest and
great surprise. I thought I 
knew something of the great wrongs
against your race, but find the
half had never been told, to my
mind. I wish those documents
could be placed in the hands of
and read by every-one in
America. 
I enclose a criticism
of your recent speech in 
Boston by the Boston Pilot
2721which has been, as long 
as I have known it, 
friendly to your race. 

If thy had read your 
Book, they would know what 
you thought of Daniel O'Connell 
and the people of Ireland in 
your letter to Garrison. 
But I think you said truthfully 
that some Irish Americans 
were among the bitter enemies
 of your race, which I have often 
wondered of. 

Sincerely Yours 
James CallahanFrederick Douglas Misses 
Some of the Lessons 

Frederick Douglas, the famous colored 
orator, lectured in the People's 
Church, Boston, on the evening of Thursday, 
May 10, before a very large audience, 
in which the white and colored 
citizens of Boston were about equally
represented. His topic was "Lessons of 
the Hour."

He adverted first to the lynching horrors 
in the South; and here, to his credit 
be it said, he handled a difficult subject 
with not less delicacy than strength; 
presenting strong arguments for his contention 
that the negro victims were, in 
many cases, guiltless of the terrible crime 
for which they were made to suffer - a 
crime which the whole previous history 
of the race in America justified him in 
asserting to be by no means a characteristic 
one. 

Mr. Douglas was justly severe on what 
he justly termed the "Anglo-Saxon" 
spirit of the bulk of the white people 
in the South, in their discrimination against 
the negroes, and their brutally repressive 
measures against anything like self-assertion 
at the polls or elsewhere, of 
the long-degraded negro race. He complained 
justly, two of the manner in 
which the same spirit had influenced 
Northern sentiment, and instanced a 
recent notable national discrimination 
against the whole negro race in its exclusion 
from creditable representation at 
the World's Fair in Chicago. "The educated, 
cultivated negro was not represented," 
said Mr. Douglas; "but" --
with an indignation with which every 
man in whose veins runs the blood of 
any oppressed or misrepresented nationality 
must sympathize-- "his race was 
represented by the savages of 
Dahomey!"

Then, with grim humor: "I was 
there, but not by the grace of my native 
land, but by the grace of the little black 
Republic of Hayti."

Mr. Douglas went on to say that in 
view of this exclusion of a whole race of 
mankind, he could not call the Columbian 
display at Chicago a World's Exposition, 
but merely an American 
Exposition.
 
An American Exposition with 8,000,000 
of Americans unrepresented! THE 
PILOT must take the issues with Mr. Douglas
here. If the American negroes,
many of them with an American ancestry
running back nearly two and a 
half centuries, are not Americans, we
know not who are! Not Mr. Douglas,
nor any other man with power to move
the negro race, can put them in the 
attitude of decent and effective self-assertion,
till he impresses them through
and through with the consciousness of
their own Americanism. This is the first
lesson of the hour which Mr. Douglas
has missed.

Mr. Douglas spoke of the timid attitude
of the churches in times past on the 
negro question, and of the Protestant
colonial theologian who discussed the
propriety of negro baptism! But Mr.
Douglas had not one word to say for
the Church which never knew race nor
color-line; which fought slavery; and
coined money from the altar-vessels for
the redemption of captives. He forgot
the Propaganda and its black students.
He forgot Wendell Phillips
and the black priest in St. Peter's.
He forgot to mention that "the little
black Republic of Hayti," to whosegrace
he owed his official dignity at the Columbian
Exposition, is a Catholic Republic.
He forgot so modern and contemporary
advocates of the political and social elevation
of his race as Daniel O'Connell,
Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop Ireland
and John Boyle O'Reilly.

Nay, he made a cheap and unworthy
jest about the Irish; in a spirit hardly
calculated to promote the negroes' goodwill
to a people who have given their
cause some of its noblest defenders.

The Catholic Church is making marvellous
growth in the United States as a
whole; and notable progress among the
American negroes, within the past thirty
years--or since the abolition of slavery.
This is the second lesson of the hour
which Mr. Douglas misses.

It is honorable to the Catholic Church
that her well-known attitude to slavery
helped to keep her out of the South--
which has been and is, as George W.
Cable notes, the most Protestant portion
of America--during the old slave days.

Why did Mr. Douglas forget that very
recent utterance of Mr. John Bigelow,
United States Minister to France during
the Civil War, on the question of Pope
Pius IX., and the Southern Confederacy,
as to how any one could have for one
moment indulged the expectation "that
Pius IX., with a half-dozen bulls of his
predecessors, against holding our fellow-
creature in bondage, staring him in the 
face, could have taken the first step
towards countenancing this pro-slavery
crusade in the United States"?

What a pity that Mr. Douglas, while 
representing Catholic Hayti at the Columbian
Exposition, did not spare a little
time for the Catholic Congress, where he
would have found educated colored
Catholics among the delegates; and, as
on the occasion of the visit of Mgr. 
Satolli, the Apostolic Delegate, occupying
places of honor upon the platform!

Truly the man who misses such signs
of the times is not fitted to read their
lessons to his people.A Dante at the end of the thirteenth century, 
or Heinrich Heine in Germany at the 
beginning of this. 

Sometimes we learn more of a character 
through a single anecdote than by pages of 
analysis. Joseph Calasanctius was only five 
years old when he led a trop of children 
through the streets of Aragon to find the 
devil and kill him. Here we have in epitome 
the history of this saint. He made warriors 
of the children. In the Pious Schools of 
Rome their little souls were equipped for 
that tremendous conflict which is always going 
on between the sprits of good and evil. 
And then St. Francis of Assisi, walking by 
an ant-hill, with just a trifle of scorn in that 
great loving heart for the ants and their solicitude 
in heaping up in summer an abundant 
store of grain for the winter. Nothing could 
be more characteristic of him as saint and 
idealist than this disdain for the utilitarian 
spirit, and that he should like the birds 
better "because they do not lay by anything 
today for tomorrow."

The poets, who are quick to know everything, 
have seized upon what is picturesque 
and beautiful in these lives and turned it into 
verse. Longfellow, the poet of medievalism, 
has left us unrivaled lines in his "Santa
[?llomena]" and "The Ladder of St. Augustine." 
Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson 
all of them-- have touched exquisitely upon 
the lives the saints. But it is curious 
and amusing to note how the Protestant or 
unbelieving mind will not acknowledge the 
[?rm] saint. It smacks too much of Rome.
Francis of Assisi, Bernard of Clairvaux, 
Thomas of Aquin; but never St. Francis, St. 
Bernard or St. Thomas. I suppose it is the 
scholar's confession to middle-class English 
Protestantism, and as such, a Catholic should 
be magnanimous and forgive. They have all 
been guilty of it; Mrs. Oliphant, James [Ad??ngton]
Symonds, Carlyle-- where he has 
[??igned] to notice a saint at all-- and even Dr. 
[??ssop]; though he lays down the sword he 
[does?] so apologetically. In his "Coming of 
the Friars," a just and beautiful treatment
of the old monks, he says: "From this time 
[??ovanni] Bernandone passes out of sight, 
[??d] from the ashes of the dead past, from the 
[??ed] that has withered that the new life might 
germinate and fructify, Francis--why 
[??dge] to call him Saint Francis?--of Assisi 
[??es."]
It has taken the Protestant world a long 
time to get back to its old ideals: the ideals 
its forefather in Catholic days. Two hundred 
years ago in England it was almost
[??th] to classify a saint or a martyr with a 
[??at] national hero. What would Cromwell 
think if he could see the restored images of 
[Saints?] in the niches of Westminster? or the 
Statue of Our Lady surmounting the reredos 
St. Paul's? or if he should happen in at 
British Museum and take up a volume 
Mrs. Oliphant's "Life of Francis of Assisi"?
The old regicide was not, to be sure, 
[??ch] of a litterateur, and still less of an 
[??st], but some of onr modern historians are 
[fond?] of quoting him as a Protestant of the 
[??thiest] and most robust type. It is [pleasant?], 
therefore, to speculate upon the changes, 
[??etter} and in spirit since the stormy, aggressive 
seventieth century days in which
[??ived.] 
[The?] instinct of hero-worship has found [expression?]
in one of the most orthodox sects of 
present day. The English Positivists ask 
[themselves?] whether a great engine of civilization
has even been decided than the moral 
[???er?] of a good man, or a body of good 
[men?]? whether it is not akin to the deepest 
[??sses] of our nature, and "whether, whilst 
[???an] nature exists, it must not be [organ???] 
and ordered"? Now, this is exactly
[what?] the Church has been doing for centuries 
in the canonization of her saints. If not,
[??t] his the meaning of that distinct policy 


but little over four millions and a half. So 
that, whilst the population of the country 
was falling away by on-fourth, the school 
attendance was increasing, until it was 
almost doubled. Or, to put it more 
definitely, the average attendance in 
the National Schools of the country, 
in 1852, was between 4 and 5 per cent. of the 
population--undoubtedly a small percentage 
to very nearly 11 per cent. of the entire population,
an increase of more than double in
point of percentage - an increase, in fact, in
this respect of 200 per cent.

this, you will remember, is the attendance
in the National Schools alone. People sometimes
seem to forget that important fact.
But we must not allow it to be forgotten.
the figures given in the report of the National
Education board take, of course, no account
of the thousands and thousands of children,
Catholic and Protestant, who are attending
schools such as those of the Christian
Brothers, or the Protestant Church Education
Society, that are not in connection with the
National Education Board.


A NOBLE FRENCH PRIEST.
the city of Nancy, France, has suffered a
severe loss in the death of the Abbe Didelot,
aged 75, on whose account a monster petition
was presented to the Government by the inhabitants
in 1892 to confer on him the Cross
of the Legion of Honor.

It appears that a man who was conveying
a barrel of wine into the cellar let it escape
him, and, in its rapid flight down the steep
stairs, it struck the Abbe Didelot, who was
standing at the bottom holding a light, on the
head and fractured his skull . Death shortly
after ensued.

It is not too much to say that
this venerable priest recalled in his life all
that was best in the records of the Saints.
A prison chaplain since 1866, the
deceased devoted himself to the poor with
heroic self-sacrifice. All the journals of
Nancy, even freethinking organs, express
their admiration at the character of the holy
man, and regret for the loss sustained. One
of them, the Est Republicain, says: "The report
of his death has excited an emotion in
which the whole town shares. For a long
time past the health of the Abbe Didelot has
been broken up by his privations. Altogether
forgetful of himself and his personal
wants, he gave to the poor, and sometimes
it must be said, to the undeserving poor, his
linen, his shoes, and every penny he could
lay claim to. Three years ago, for example,
his shirts were found to be in rags and tatters,
and some charitable persons provided him
with some new ones; but to what use? Immediately
he distributed them to his poor. In
a word, the Abbe Didelot was charity personified,
and truly he has been called the St.
Vincent de Paul of Nancy."

THE PRACTICAL GOOD A CATHOLIC
CAN DO.

EDITOR OF THE PILOT:- This subject has
been suggested to my mind by constantly
meeting with Catholic young men who are
well-meaning and good, and yet who do so
little to bring outsiders into the true fold.
Still they are in no way selfish, in fact quite 
the contrary. Catholic young men do not
give this subject the reflective thought which 
it merits. What is more gratifying to a 
Catholic than to know that he has been the
means of bringing a member into the Church
of God? What more pleasing than the consciousness
of having changed an indifferent
Catholic into a champion of the true Faith?

Often I have heard Catholic men say that 
they had a Protestant friend whom they
would very much wish to introduce to a priest
in order that our religion might be explained
to them. Now this was an admission that
this well-meaning Catholic was not sufficiently
conversant with the tenets of his
Church to make the conversion, and yet a little
study and judicious inquiries of well-read
fellow-religionists would have given him
knowledge enough of the principal points
generally used in controversies of this kind.
while on this subject I will relate something
that came under my notice in Australia. In
the interior of the country where parishes
are more than sixty of [????] [???] an IrishBridport, 22 April.
MY DEAR SIR DOUGLASS
I really cannot remember when I last wrote to you. I know it was an
[age] ago, & that you have very often been in our thoughts since. I doubt
whether I have heard from you since June 1866, when, on our return from
Italy I found one of your delightful & ever welcome letters waiting for me
at my sister Lucy’s, at Woodcote near Bristol.—I dont think I can have
been so ungrateful as not to have thanked you for that letter, for I am sure
it gave me great pleasure to receive it,—that it was not at all pleasant to
hear of the terrible danger from which you narrowly escaped at Baltimore
a short time before. Our friend Miss Amé-Draz is spending two or three
days with us—you will not be far wrong if you conclude that we are often
talking of you, & wondering when we shall see you in England again.—
We think that you ought to come to the Anti-Slavery Congress at Paris in
Aug. Cant you make your people (ie friends white or colored) understand that “the Cause,”— to say nothing of your own health,—would benefit by your coming over, and “looking up” those whose zeal has cooled, & inspiring new people with zeal & knowledge on the Condition & needs of the colored people in America? I am sure that you have been working very hard for many years, and that you have well earned a holiday and ought to take one—now will not this Paris Congress give you a motive for coming at a certain fixed time? When people are so fully occupied as you always are, & seem so necessary to many important objects, it is always difficult to break away, & take a rest; & I am afraid you will never do it unless you can persuade yourself that your absence for a time will really
serve the great object of your life at home. But surely the overstrained mind & body must relax their tension & enjoy occasional repose, if only to enable them 

to labor again & more abundantly. Our sister Miss Carpenter of Bristol felt a complete change to be very needful to her, at the same time she did not care to go any where simply for her own pleasure, for example to Italy or Switzerland so, as perhaps you have heard, she went to India about six months ago.—She has <long> taken great interest
in the Hindoos, particularly their women, who are so sadly neglected— & ignorant, & one of her chief objects has been to stimulate the government and people to establish Normal Schools for training female Teachers—we hope that good will result from her visit. As all events—I trust that she
has herself [?] been fit, for she has just returned in excellent health & spirits having thoroughly enjoyed the expedition[.] She has only been in England for a week or ten days, so we have not yet seen her, but are glad to hear such famous accounts of her. I hope that you will do as she
hasdone, tear yourself away from home engagements for a time, & come to England to see all your old friends.—We shall so rejoice to welcome you to Bridport—I am sure you would like the country round us, for it is really pretty; without any grandeur (excepting a fine sea <(sea not tea!)> which is the 
 grandest thing in [?] I think) the neighbourhood is charming in fine weather, & there are some lovely walks that I should like to introduce you to.

I dont know whether I told you that Mr Carpenter has decided to engage an 
assistant, as since his illness he has not been able without undue fatigue to preach twice on a Sunday.—A gentleman is now come to settle at Bridport who takes half of the pulpit duty—& this is a great relief to my husband, & with this relief I am thankful to say that he keeps very tolerably well. You will see the 
Grand Exhibition at Paris if you come to the Congress—which most people now are running over to look at 
Monday April 23rd. When Mr Carpenter returned from the service last July he and Miss Amé-Draz got into an interesting talk about various matters, certain difficult chapters in St Paul’s Epistles, & so forth, & I found that I could not write & listen at the same time so my letter was put aside. Two of Mr C’s nephews, grown up sons of Dr Carpenter of London, will be with us for a few days this week;—the younger of the two, Lorhis, has just arrived,—he has a situation as clerk at the [?], & is generally obliged to keep closely to business at which he works very steadily.—The other brother, Estlin, will come from Bristol this July—he is the minister of a new & beautiful church lately built by the Unitarians at Clifton. 

I wonder whether you know a Dr. Massie, an Independent Minister & a most earnest anti-slavery man; he has lately spent a few weeks at Bridport, during which he gave two lectures on his visits to America. He was there while the war was going on, & had an interesting interview with President Lincoln.[I] have not heard from Mrs Crofts for more than three months, but hope that I shall soon, she seemed full of energy as ever,—but had been a good deal tried by illness in her family. 

Miss Amé-Draz has told me a little of your daughter Rosetta, or rather I should say Mrs Sprague, which I have liked very much to hear, you have now two little grandchildren,—& I am sure they must be a source of pleasure & interest to you,—it is pleasant both for you & for her that your daughter has settled near you. I dare say you often find time to have a game of play with the little ones, inspite of all your pressing engagements, & that must refresh your spirit. I hope that they are healthy children & do not cause their mother much anxiety.

I am sorry to send you so dull a letter—but it shall go—for I want you
to know that you are often in our thoughts. When I proposed to Mr Carpenter that he s[hou]ld write a few lines


to go with this he said “Oh, no, Douglass knows that I am steadfast to him without my writing”—so you must excuse his idleness & believe in his affection all the same! 

I am sorry to say that we have done nothing for a long time for the freed-people—if you want us to do any thing you must write & remind us of our duty & stimulate us to do it!—& write so that I might by means of your letter stir up other people & get a little help out of our rich friends.— We have some here who are kindness itself whenever they see the duty of giving help, but they have never entered much into American affairs, or the subject of slavery, so they do not move spontaneously in that direction. You will be quite tired of deciphering my scrawl—so goodbye—with Mr Carpenter’s kindest remembrances I remain sincerely & affectionately[.]

Your friend Mary Carpenter
St Andrews Villas
Bridport June 5

Dear Mr. Douglass

We were delighted 
as I need not say to see 
your handwriting once 
more. I only wish it had
been to announce your 
speedy arrival in England. 
You are too public spirited
& we grieve that you shd
have risked your property 
in this new Bank. I hope 
that your skill & wisdom
will be all the benefit you
desire to the concern,
without involving loss to 
yourself. We should like 
of all things to have your  

[*With Kindest 
remembrances 
I remain affectly and sincerely
yours

Mary Carpenter*]

[*2618*]amongst us again, - & I dont 
give up the hope yet, - 
but is it to be always
hope deferred?
I am leaving home tomorrow
for a fortnight's 
visit to my sister Anne
she lives at Hampstead.
& as soon as I return
I hope that my mother 
will venture to leave 
her pleasant country 
home, only 20 miles 
from here, - & stay a little 
with us. - I have not dared
to propose it thinking the
fatigue would be too much
for her - but she herself
has a strong wish to come
& of course it will be a
great pleasure me to have
her here. - I hope her courage
wont fail when the time
comes for the move.
Miss Amé-[Dr??] spent
nearly three months in 
Bridport this spring - She
came to work with some 
good friends of ours in
French & Italian before
their starting for a
few Months' tour in
Italy & Swizerland. - I
caught the Italian fever,
& joined my friends in
their lessons. It is very pleasant
to go to schoolagain in one's old age when 
one has the chance. - Miss
Amé Draz spent the last
3 weeks of her Bridport
time with us - she fell
desperately in love with 
Bridport, its neighbourhood
& inhabitants -, &
I think it likely that 
she will come again
& take Country lodgings
[of] and recruit for a time.
I tell her that she wants
a year's holiday from
teaching, - her brain &
nerves are overstrained,
& a little wholesome dullness
such as we can offer at
Bridport wld be the best
thing for her.St Andrews, Villas
Bridport June  8th.
Dear Mr Douglass
You're letter & the beautiful
photograph, which
arrived in good Condition
last Sunday [?], gave
me a delightful surprise, 
for you do not generally
answer letters at once, 
& I am always prepared
to wait for a few months
for a reply. - All the greater
was the pleasure this
time, & I must not
delay a few lines of
hearty thanks - also for
the most interesting
& admirable oration
which I read to Mr Carpenter
2735We were struck with 
your dignified independence 
& absolute truthfulness 
in your estimate
of Lincoln, refusing to
give praise indiscriminately, 
where praise was 
not due, yet pouring
it out freely and generously
when you could honestly
do so. I wish I could  
have seen & heard you 
delivering it, I am very 
glad you gave us the 
opportunity of reading it. 
The photograph is a 
magnificent one. I  

had not seen it before. 
It shows that you are 
as full of life & power 
as ever, so I hope that 
you will not suffer
from the work you 
have cut out for
yourself this summer,
but get a "good man"
nominated, & elected, 
& then come over
to England for a little 
repose. 
I am really in hope,
of a visit from Mrs.
Crofts in a few weeks
I heard from her aFew days ago, telling me 
of their plans for the 
holidays, & saying that 
she should like to come
& stay a little with us
if possible. I think I 
have only seen her once
(many years ago) twice 
we left Halifax eleven
years ago, & shall be
very glad to welcome 
her here, & I hope 
that the complete
change of scene & 
thought may do her 
good, for I think she 
won't be living formuch on the strain,
& with poor health.
You may fancy us
talking over old times
& mutual friends.
I hope that she will
be with us the first
and second week in July.
I am sorry that you
did not see Majors
Wilson and Gladstone, but,
as you are in sympathy
with the
movements they advocate against
certain odius laws, - it is of
the less consequence, 
as you do not needconverting & enlightening.
I felt sure you
would be entirely
with us in appreciating 
the importance
of the work.  Mr
Stanfeld is taking
a noble part in it.
I wish that we had
a hundred Mr Stanfelds
& a hundred Mr Butlers]
at work in England
& elsewhere against
this [legislation], it
would soon disappear
if we had.
I shall go on hoping
against hope that 
we shall see you
here next summer
1877, if not before.
Next Monday Mr Carpenter
& I are going to visit
some friends at Birmingham,
& at the end of the 
week, if the weather is
at all promising, we
mean to go on to Yorkshire,
& explore some
of its beautiful districts
that we did not see
when we lived there,getting home again by 
the end of the month.
Have I told you that
I have two nieces and a
nephew living in the
Falkland Islands? The
nephew - Robert Blake -
is sheep farming. One
of the nieces is married
& has two little girls, 
her sister is gone and
to be useful to her
they are all very happy
& prospering with 
hard work.
I must say goodbye
and remain
very sincerely yours
Mary Carpenter2)
off the American tour
by an invitation from
the Princess Alice of Hesse to 
be present at a Congress at 
Darmstadt, to consider
ways of improving the 
position & culture of women
at wch the Princess herself 
was to preside. Such an invitation
was too tempting
& gratifying to be refused, &
Miss Carpenter accepted it
& spent a week at the Palace 
at Darmstadt most delightfully.
She was perfectly
charmed with the genuine
simple goodness & earnesty
of the Princess, of whom
[*2782*]she saw a great deal, & who
treated her with the greatest
kindness & attentions. - From
the Palace Miss C. went to the 
prison, - for she once visited
the Inspector of Prisons at
Neuchatel in Switzerland;
(Neuchatel is Miss Amé Draz'
family home -- or was. I
fear the home is broken
up by death) - after that 
she staid with a gentleman
near Geneva with whom
Theodore Parker had spent
a good deal of time on his
last European journey.
Mr Carpenter & I took a quiet

little journey last summer
to Switzerland - but ours was
no royal progress -- nor had
we any peeps into palaces --
we went in the most
common-place way, stopping
at hotels, & paying for 
all we had! which was 
not half so interesting.
However we saw & enjoyed
some of the glories of 
nature, spending more
than a fortnight on the
[loveliest] Lake of Lucerne,
one of the loveliest of the 
Swiss Lakes I think. We
also spent two or three days
at Neuchatel -- & returnedby Paris. You really ought
to come over soon-before 
traveling becomes a [?] 
& of course you must 
make our house your
home and head quarters for
the South of England. We are 
living in a very pretty 
country district, with fine 
open sea and pleasantly 
hilly and undulating country,
not grand in its features 
but very pleasing. I should 
like to take you some of 
our favorite walks - & to
introduce you to some of
our kind friends.
My dear Mother is still
living--and often able to enjoy3) 
life & to add to the enjoyment
of those about her, tho' at
times she is very feeble -
no wonder at 87 - !
My three sisters are all
well, & have great happiness
in seeing their children growing
up, & beginning life with
good promise of doing well - 
we spent ten days at Xmas
at [with] my eldest sister's house
where my mother lives. -
The nine sons & daughters
(from 10 to 26 years of age)
were all at home, & all bright
& happy. Our nieces and
nephews - both Mr. C's & mine
are a great happiness to
us - one or other of themoften stays a little with
us, & gives a little life to
our quiet household. 
Mr. Carpenter's health, tho 
very delicate, is not I think
worse than it was some 
years ago. - He has learnt
to look upon himself as an
invalid, & to take care accordingly
he never preaches
more than once on a Sunday
& bad weather or extra [?] 
sometimes prevents
even this - but we may well
be thankful for so much
health as is continued to us
He joins me in kindest remembrances -
in sympathy & congratulations 
on all your successes
& sincere regrets for your disappointments
& losses-
[*2783*]2. from her a short time ago. She
tells me that she has decided
on doing this. - Of course it will
involve great changes in
their family arrangements,
as a school must be stationary.
The frequent movements
from home to home try Mrs
Griffiths a good deal - so it will
be better for her, & Mrs Crofts
means to continue at Gateshead, 
and let the oldest daughter
keep house for Dr Crofts. I hope
that Mrs Crofts will have
health to enable her to carry
out this plan successfully
but it seems a great undertaking 
for her. From what 
she says I should hope that 
the youngest daughter willbe a real help & comfort to her. 
I heard from Miss Amé Draz a few weeks 
ago & was very glad to hear that she 
had the prospect of a pleasant holiday. 
Mr & Mrs Cooke — in whose family 
she lived for many years — had 
invited her to spend the Summer 
holiday with them, — at least partly 
at their house, as they 
were going to travel, & would 
take her with them to Switzerland 
& leave her with her sister while 
they went further, & she would 
return with them to England. -
This would be just what she 
would enjoy — she wld not have 
felt justified in taking so long 
& expensive a journey, —  but the 
change I have no doubt will do 
her good, & she will be so glad 
of the opportunity of visiting her 

sister. I am sorry to say I 
have lost sight of my German 
friend Miss Hancke, whom 
perhaps you remember. — 
she went to Australia. Hence 
to New Zealand & I have heard 
that she returned to Australia; 
whether she is still there or 
has returned to Germany I 
don't know. I should like to hear 
from her & see her again, — &
don't despair of her "turning up" 
some fine day!

A propos to your not allowing 
praises of yourself to appear in 
your Paper, — you remind us 
that years ago I was grieved at
something only too kind that
you said of me in your paper, — 
but you see the cases are so different.You are a public man, and cannot 
help if you wished it ever so 
much, being written and talked of, 
you cannot help being both praised 
& blamed in an exaggerated way, 
so I dont think you need shrink 
from letting the public know 
how highly & sincerely your
friends esteem you & value 
the influence of your life & work.
Your prudent plan of wintering in 
Washington with your sons, and spending
the hot part of the summer with 
your daughter in your old house 
at Rochester, sounds very pleasant, 
but can you not next summer 
come to England instead of Rochester 
you will have earned rest
by your winters' lecturing tours
& why not take it here? we do 
want to have you amongst us2)
and shall be very glad 
to hear of your sons having 
won their positions in
spite of all obstacles. They
have a tower of strength in
you to back them. Your manner
& character & position are
something for them to be
proud of & to glory in, &
from seeing what you have
done they should draw
strength & hope for themselves
& feel encouraged to battle 
with obstacles & to bear
& live down all slights &
unworthy treatments.  But
I hope they wont be satisfied
always to fling the
weight of their burdens &
difficulties upon you!
[17][*3074*]Mr & Mrs John Robberds
spent a couple of days
with us about a fortnight
ago. - We talked of you, &
she showed us a letter
she had received from. you
lately. We are very glad to
know that your Paper is in
no need of aid. I am sure
with your independent spirit
you would much rather
help yourself & others than
be helped. You have always
most kindly appreciated
the little we have done for
the cause to which your
life has been devoted; - but
for many years I am sure
we are quite innocent of 

having helped you in any
way, - & I promise you
faithfully not to ask
for money from any of
our friends for your Paper,
which I have no doubt
will do well for itself!
but - if I promise this, I
think you ought to promise
that if circumstances do
alter - & the time ever come
when you would be glad
of assistance - you will not
keep old friends in ignorance
who would feel it a privilege
to show their sympathy
not only by words.
My dear Mother is now
paying us her annual
visit of a month, she generallychoses this time of the year 
She lives only 20 miles 
from Bridport with my 
sister Mrs Blake & her
family. Mr & Mrs Blake
drove over with my mother 
a week ago & returned home 
the same evening. She is well 
for her age, 86 - enjoys reading 
& can walk pretty well -
but of course she is very frail 
& requires watchful care. 
She was gratified at your 
kind words of remembrance
of her - She always hears of 
you with much interest
& rejoices in your success.
My sister Lucy with her 
husband (Mr. Charles Thomas
who called on you one Sundaya review by Mr Carpenter 
of Mr. Conway's book, 
"Testimonies Concerning 
Slavery".
I wonder whether Mr. 
Lincoln will be reelected 
President - or if not whether
any more thorough anti-slavery 
man will take 
his place - it is much disgraceful 
that the government
should be as false 
to their engagements with 
their colored soldiers. 
We sympathize very much 
with you in the painful 
anxiety you have been 
living in while your sons 
have been with the army
[*2616*]the constant anxiety about 
them added to what you 
feel for the whole country 
& especially for all the colored 
people, must be very worrying 
to you. You must remember
that now your paper is 
given up we long more 
than ever for letters from 
you - if you are silent 
we are quite in the dark 
about you & yours, - so 
please do write as often 
as you conveniently can. 
I am leaving home next
Monday for a few weeks 
in Invernesshire?, amongst 
my many relations and 

friends there. Mr Carpenter 
is not going with me I 
am sorry to say - so he 
will have a solitary 
time of it while I am 
enjoying myself. He 
will add a note so I think 
I must end or he will 
have no room. We very
often think & talk of you 
& wonder when we 
shall see you in England 
once more.
Believe we remain
always most sincerely yours
Mary Carpenter.My dear sir
It is very mysterious what
has become of [your] my letter. It was posted
Feb. 20. [?] Of course your 
post office authorities know nothing about 
it, or you would have heard. Should
it by any mysterious chance turn up,
please to return that draft to me, 
as I have stopped the payment of it
at the bank, and send you another
drawn on my own name, to avoid 
confusion. I have endorsed it, to be
payable to your own. 
Please send a line by next post to
say that it has arrived safely. Any
particulars about yourself or your family 
will be very welcome to us. I
hope in a few days to send you an
inquirer containing extracts from your letter.
Believe me, very faithfully yrs
Russ L. Carpenter
F. Douglass Esq.that the kind remittance arrived safely.
Ever very faithfully yours,
Russ Carpenter
Bridport March 28 - 

My dear Mr. Douglass.
     I write to congratulate you
on the rapid strides which the
cause of freedom is making. I
want to know how it affects
you personally. / In what way
do you make a livelihood? Do
you find remuneration up against
as a writer, and a lecturer?
Have you yet any post under
Government.? I should like to
see you employed by the new
Department for Freedmen and
Father Land at Washington; -and yet anything in the redtape
line would not suit you!
War, and the evils attending
it, are to me so horrible,
that they take away considerably
from the rapture I should
have felt on emancipation. The
miseries of many of the 
freedmen are heart - rending
However, there are redeeming
features; and in some points
of view, the sweep of the
efforts made for them are
greater than could have been
anticipated.

Your sons and son-in-law
are, I hope, still safe and
uninjured. I hope they
will be able to carry on 
your work in the liberation
of their people.
I send you an Inquirer,
with a book of mine, which
I hope to follow by others
- You don't expect frequent
affronts from me: so you will 
not be disappointed in what
I say. - I hope that I 
have been the means of [?]
information on the firstquestions of you        Some of
the things you have said in
the past, have him against the
government. If you have now
a more favorable opinion, [of]
[this], I still hope to publish
it. Unless any parts of your
letter are marked private, or 
are obviously so in their nature,
I take for granted that you have
no objection to the publication 
of extracts, which I think
may be generally useful.
It seems a very long time
since we heard from you. I 
suppose you have heard nothing 
of that letter,  containing £5, which
we sent you a year ago. The
Bank made it good to me, on my 
signing a proper form. I was gladConeggar Villa,
Bridport

Easter Day
Dear Mrs Douglass, 

My young friend, Mr T.
Alfred Colfax, the representative
of one of our principal families
here, after completing with great
[?s] his professional training 
as a civil engineer, has 
wanted to see something of the 
world - by going around it!
He goes first to the West Indies;
then, via New Orleans, to 
Washington - so he plans -
2739I hope that he may find 
you then: and bring us back
a good report of yourself
and Mrs. Douglass.  Although
you are no longer U. S
Marshall, you can no doubt
further him in the way of
seeing your abilities! I
expect that one of our
young ministers, Rev'd W.
Ainsworth, a brother of


the M. P. for Cumberland,
will be travelling with him
through the U. States.

Believe me, with our
united kindest regards

yours faithfully
R. L. Carpenter most part confined to her room.
As to political matters, there 
may be a good deal of republicanism
among the action-minded working 
classes. But if our Queen and her 
family are prudent, I do not expect 
to be any change. Basically, we are
republican. The Queen has very little
political power, - not nearly as much
as your president. When she exerted
her prerogative, in the army hill, to 
neutralize the Peers prerogative, it
was considered rather a dangerous
precedent[: yet even then she ackd
by the advice of her ministers, who
considered that they represented the  feeling
of the country. I dislike
to voting pensions to the Royal Family,
is no proof of Republicanism. It 
is felt that, since the Queen is so 
economical, she might well spare some
of her surplus revenue to her children!that he will do most to her name. 
I wonder what subjects you will treat,
in your winter campaign. I hope 
it will be a productive one, and not
too exhausting.
As you like to hear of old people,
I must tell you of my father's only
surviving sister -- Miss Mary Carpenter
of Regent Street, of the firm of
Carpenter & Worthy, opticians. She
is 84, but she still  (I [?] ) keeps
the books of the firm, of which she
is nominally the head. She has
always been a most useful and
loved member of our family, and
when I visited London, last month.
chiefly with the wish to see her,
as I try to do every year, she
seemed as bright and cheerful as
can. In the winter she is for the9 West 38 St. N.Y. June 19
Hon Fred. Douglass
Dear Sir
Under the title 
"Twelve Americans" Harper and Brothers
of this city are about to publish the
collection of sketches of prominent
men written by me and originally
printed in the N.Y. Times. As they
will now appear the sketches have
been enlarged and revised. The
list is as follows Horatio Seymour.
Charles Francis. Adams. Peter Cooper.
Hannibal Hamlin. John Gilbert.
Robert C. Schneck. Frederick Douglass.
William Allen. Allen G. Thurman.
Jos Jefferson. E.B. Washburne. &
Alexander H Stephens. The book
is to contain portraits of the
gentlemen named. It will be
sold at retail for $2 @ copy.
Several of those in the list
have subscribed for a number
[*2738*]of copies from twenty five in one
case to one hundred and fifty
in another. I should be much
gratified if you also would
be pleased to help the sale of
the book. Any order sent to
me at above address or to
Harper and Brothers Franklin Square
N.Y. will be promptly filled.
I have the honor to be [?]
With great respect
Howard Carroll[*no date*]
Dear Henrietta,
I have a favor to ask of 
you in behalf of the slave -- put a 
large ham in the pot, and set it 
boiling like mad. - get in a keg 
of crackers, and a pitcher of water, 
and cry "delegates! dinner waits!"

I have engaged to take all Lynn 
& all Andowen, & in this summary, 
I shall say.
"Plenty of fare
But never a chain;
Stand in fifties round
Plenty of meat
But never a seat
Unless you take to the ground."
Let your preparations be as extemporse
as my Rhymes. Yours affectionately
Mr W Chapman.
Arrangements have been made 
for the male delegates by night; What 
few ladies there may be will find 
[*2862*]

[*shelter among the friends, by tsar's and by threat*]Fairlawn, 
Anacostia, 
D.C. 

1st Jun, [?]

My dear Mr Douglass
Accept my
sincere thanks for
"My Bondage & Freedom"
Pardon me for my 
inability to sympathize
in your regret at him
"unable to find a better
copy" The fact of
these books  [?] [?]
having been your own
[*2788*]growth in honor with 
value in my eyes - 
The book will always 
hold an honored place 
in my library as the
work & possession of 
a great & fond man 
who has done much 
to wipe an American
institution from
with great regard
Yours truly
A H Christie
[*[A. H. CHRISTIE]*]
To
F. DouglassBrowns Valley, Minn,

Dear Friend Douglass,
Yours of
the 29th of Feb is this moment 
received - forwarded by Mrs 
Colby from Batavia.
I hasten to acknowledge 
it and ask pardon for my
lament that you may, in your 
prosperity - have forgotten any 
of your old friends. I rejoice
in the comfort that comes
with the sunset light of your
noble life, and thank you
for your kind invitations to
visit you sometime.
I have just written Mrs.
Colby and quoted in my
letter to her the good things
[*2661*]2
you say of her in yours,
as I know how she enjoyed
her visit at your
house and how she esteems
you, and am sure your
kind appreciative mentions
will do her good.
I am resting for a week
with friends - Mr and Mrs
Havers  - in Browns Valley,
where I have a lake front
farm, and expect to build
before long. I go east in
April and may visit
Washington. In the meantime
my address will be
at Spectators office Minneapolis
till the 18th and in Cedar
Rapids Ia, the 20 to the 24th.
I know you will like my
new poem, and enclose
an extra copy.
Always your Friend,
James G. Clark.P.S. Please find thy  
letter copied in one 
of the Washington 
pepers.
R.L.C.THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
BY JAMES G. CLARK
    [This remarkable poem is the one referred to
in the sketch of Mr. Clark given in the February
WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, as "that sublime anthem
of progress yet unpublished. "The Old and the
New." It has been appropriately renamed be
its author, and is now given to the world as the
protest of humanity against oppression and
injustice. The poet-prophet sees the impend-
ing conflict of the age with ancient wrongs and
sounds the tocsin of the people in no uncer-
tain measures.--ED.]

Swing inward, O! gates of the future,
     Swing outward ye doors of the past,
For the soul of the people is moving
     And rising from slumber at last;
The black forms of the night are retreating,
     The white peaks have signaled the day,
And Freedom her long roll is beating,
     And calling her sons to the fray.

And woe to the rule that has plundered
     And trod down the wounded and slain,
While the wars of the Old Time have thun-
     ,    dered
     And men poured their life-tide in vain;
The day of its triumph is ending,
     The evening draws near with its doom,
And the star of its strength is descending
     To sleep in dishonor and gloom.

Tho' the tall trees are crowned on the high-
          lands
     With the first gold of rainbow and sun,
While far in the distance below them
     The rivers in dark shadows run,
They must fall, and the workman shall burn
          them
     Where the lands and the low waters meet,
And the steeds of the New Time shall spurn
          them
     With the soles of their swift-flying feet.

Swing inward, O! gates, till the morning
     Shall paint the brown mountains in gold,
Till the life and the love of the New time
     Shall conquer the hate of the Old.
Let the face and the hand of the Master
     No longer be hidden from view,
Nor the lands be prepared for the many
     Be trampled and robbed by the few.

The soil tells the same fruitful story,
     The seasons their bounties display,
And the flowers lift their faces in glory
      To catch the warm kisses of day;
While our fellows are treated as cattle
      That are muzzled when treading the corn,
And millions sink down in Life's battle
      With a sigh for the day they were born.

Must the sea plead in vain that the river
    May return to its mother for rest,
And the Earth beg the rain clouds to give her
     Of dews they have drawn from her breast?
Lo ! the answer comes back in a mutter
     From domes where the quick lightnings
             glow,
And from heights where the mad waters utter
     Their warning to dwellers below.

And woe to the robbers who gather
     In fields where they never have sown,
Who have stolen the jewels from labor
     And builded to Mammon a throne;
For the snow-king asleep by the fountains
     Shall wake in the summer's hot breath,
And descend in his rage from the mountains
     Bearing terror, destruction and death.

And the throne of their god shall be crumbled,
     And the sceptre be swept from his hand.
And the heart of the haughty be humbled,
     And a servant be chief in the land,--
And the Truth and the Power united
     Shall rise from the graves of the True,
And the wrongs of the Old Time be righted
     In the might and the light of the New.

For the Lord of the harvest hath said it--
     Whose lips never uttered a lie,
And his prophets and poets have read it
     In symbols of Earth and of a sky,
That to him who has reveled in plunder
     Till the angel of conscience is dumb,
The shock of the earthquake and thunder
     And the tempest and torrent shall come.
Swing inward, O! gates of the future,
     Swing outward ye doors of the past,
A giant is waking from slumber
     And rending his fetters at last,--
From the dust, where his prond tyrants found
          him
     Unhonored and scorned and betrayed,
He shall rise with the sunlight around him
     And rule in the realm he has made.
                                  -- The Woman's Tribune
Wednesday, April 3rd
My Dearest Helen
I send you these few
lines, that I arranged in my
mind as I lay in my bed too
full of pain to sleep, and trying 
to think of something better than
pain. They are very imper-
fect I know, but I am too weak 
to make them better now. And 
you have always been so indul-
gent to me, that I think you
will accept them as a loving
tribute to the dear friend whose
loss we all so sadly mourn. 
The lines an in the form of
an Epitaph. 
How can we fitly praise the man
who sleeps beneath this sacred mound
How tells the noble course he ran
Within life's fleeting roundWhat tongue can tell his generous love
His ardent hopes for all mankind;
Or say how faithfully he strove 
To lift the common mind!

His son a power of eloquence 
To still the restless throng,
To hush the cry of insolence,
And show the mighty wrong

That ground his people in the dust
And roused each generous soul,
To indignation strong and just,
Against a crime so foul,
But though we mourn the great man dead
yet his influence sublime
Still lives, and will its brilliance
Far down through coming time. 

Dear Helen this looks so badly
I am almost ashamed to send it
but you will forgive it, for I am very
weak, but I wanted to speak
few words to you to let you know
I still love you, and think of you
very oftenHoping your sorrows and many trials
will not break down your health
but you will be sustained through it all
I am your ever loving
[Laura?] H. ClarkMy dear Sir:
I have delayed until now to answer your
kind invitation in the hope that I might
be able to answer affirmatively but circumstances
are against me and it only remains to send
you my word of sincere regret.
Peter H. Clark Esqr
Cincinnati Ohio.
My dear sir I am obliged by
your favor.To the Editor of the Cleveland Gazette, 

Sir:--
You write very freely of the extent of my wealth. May 
I ask what you really know about it? How do you know if the extent 
of it, and how I came by it, and the use I make of it? 
Where do you get your information? Have you detectives to shadow 
me and report what I do with my money? While I may not withhold 
without your censure, may I not sometimes give without your knowledge? 
Do you publish all your own acts of benevolence? Do you 
judge me by your own standard of conduct? Why do you hold me up 
as an object of disgust? May I not be acting by moral conviction 
rather than meanness in refusing to give money to carry on useless 
litigation? You professed to be shocked at my advice to 
young men. What better could I do at my time of life than to tell 
them to continue the struggle which I have maintained for more than 
fifty years? Are you reasonable [for] in censuring me for such advice? 
What you mean by attacking me any how? Is it to improve my conduct 
and character or to make me infamous in the eyes of your readers? 
If it is the latter you are wasting your time, in attempting that, 
which can only be done by myself, and if the former is your object, 
the means you employ are neither wise nor just. Who told you I2
The present area of Egypt includes nearly the 
whole of N.E. Africa.  This vast territory equals in 
extent 2/3 of European Russia and contains 
1,250,000 sq miles.   This is its geographical extent,
but the real Egypt that occupied by cultivable 
land and a tax-paying population is the same 
in size as ancient Egypt measuring 11.342 sq miles, 21 sq miles 
less than Belgium
Of these provinces, represented on the map, 
Darfur was reduced by Ziber Pasha in 1874
Kordofan "     "          Mehemet Ali     " 1821
Upper Nubia & Senaar " Ismail Pasha " 1822 
The Zeriba land of White Nile basin organized and administered
by European lieutenants of Khedivial Gov.
from 1872 till 1882 & partly held by Emin Pasha
till the Stanley Relief Expedition of 1889. 
The Egyptian Soudan was placed under Gov. Gen, whose official 
residence was at Khartoum. [Whose pop 70,000 &] divided 
into 12 prov. 3/5 Soudan have in 10 yrs perished of famine, war
& slave trade. 
Since the Mahdi's revolt Suakim, Zela, Berber been 
occupied by English, Massonah by Italians, Northern 
Dongola by Egypt. Darfur independent. Equa Prov. barbarism
Greater part of Darfur & Equa Prov, within sphere of influences
of British East African Co. 
For Kordofan alone in 1881 exports = 150, 000 l. 
Baraka ValleyPresident Cleveland:
I have dared to address a few
earnest words to the Honble. Secretary
of the Interior, which I hope you may see
before any change is made in the chief
officer of the Freedman's Hospital in 
Washington. I have known Doctor
Purvis long and well. He is able. He
is honest and is the kind of man you like-
upright and down right- free from all
pretense. I know you want to do the
right in little, as well as large things- and 
hence I venture to call your attention this
apparently small matter. I dare to call myself.
your friend:
Frederick Douglass
[*2853*]To the Editor of the Cleveland Herald
Sir:
It seems from the interview, now before 
me, published in the columns of the 
Herald, on the third instantly that Prof. John
M. Langston [has] strongly and without
provocation, in the first hours of his return
from Hayti, summoned home to defend
his son, indicted for murder in the District
of Columbia, has seen fit, even before reaching
Washington, to celebrate his arrival by 
making himself the guilty author, of a murderous
assault upon my reputation as a man
and a Republican.
To his cruel charges I wish simply, through
your columns, to enter a plea of not guilty
and leave your respected readers and the
country to whom Mr Langston and myself
are well known to judge between us.

[*2812*]2.
When Mr. Langston states that "Fred Douglass
got up the Louisville Convention, he states
 what is not true; when he states that Fred.
Douglass got it up for the purpose of gaining
a Cabinet position, Mr. Langston states what 
is not true; When he states that Frederick 
Douglass was mad with Arthur because he 
was not appointed United States Marshal [for] 
the District of Columbia, he states what is not 
true, [Mr for Mr. Arthur had no such appointment 
to make] When he states that Frederick 
Douglass was mad with the whole Republican 
party, he states what is not true.
When he states that Frederick Douglass has announced 
that there is not an ounce of black 
blood in his veins, he states what is not true, 
and what he must know is absurdly [fl] 
false. When he says that black washerwomen 
have been throwing dimes in Fred. Douglass' pocket. 
[*2812*]3
because he is colored, he reveals his malice
as well as his untruthfulness. and adds to
his boundless reputation for veracity. When
he says that Frederick Douglass caused the
failure of the Freedman's Bank the lie should
have blistered his lips when he uttered it.
Where he says I sought the Presidency of the
Freedman's Bank, he uttered what the most
shameless liar, who knows the facts in the
case would have declined to be responsible
for. Mr Editor I am quite aware that
there is no complete defense against falsehood,
its legs seem to be swifter than those
of the truth. Many will quote Mr Langston
who will not see this denial but I fling it
out as best I may and trust that it will
settle like a mantel of fire on the head of
the heartless maligner who has made your
columns the vehicle of his slanders - 
Fred. Douglass 

[* 2812 *]Personal

South Bend, Ind, July 15.
My Dear Sir, 
I write to tell you that I
orated 4th July & [deliva] delivered my
Lincoln Lecture at night, at the Calhatin
at Grant City, Missouri, a bright spot in the
state (Rep. town strongly but closely divided Co:)
They were already planning for another "big
time" next 4th, & I suggested you to them. 
It seemed to impress them favorably. They
could pay $100 for Oration & a Lecture at
night, charging adm. fee at night. I thought,
as it is a time when business is dull, you
might like to go, if they invited you, & hence send
this in one of their "geographical envelopes" to
show you where it is. Ex Gov. L. J. Fannell of
Wis'n is one of their prominent citizens in real
estate and banking business.
In post haste, just starting to the far N. West
Manitoba & with my family, with a sincere "Lord
save the President", yours truly    Sherylin Cooke
[*2653*]To the Editor of The Conservator, -
Sir,

I find that the address which I had the honor to deliver in
Washington upon the 27th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the
D of C. has called down upon me much personal abuse in several
papers published by colored men. It is also a notable fact,
not altogether creditable to their candor, that while they bitterly
denounce the address, they carefully withhold every word of it 
from their readers. If they really desired to treat me fairly
and to place before their readers the simple truth, they
would allow me the privilege, freely granted to the 
meanest criminal, to speak for myself. The kindness
and candor with which you have treated me on
former occasions, induces me to depart from my
usual silence in regard to the unjust attacs
made upon me lately in your columns. As to Mr. Bruce
Grit, I freely grant him the mercy of my silence,
though I may not always grant him this indulgence 
He knows very well why I cannot admit his creditability
as a witness against me, so I pass over his basely
untruthful accusations, and turn my attention simply
to the Editorial in your paper of May 4. in which you
want me to say sundry things which may seem to you 
wise, right, and proper to be said by me to Pres. Harrison.
Your words are "Stand up & say to Pres. H. 'You are wrong! You
are sacrificing principle to policy! You are a traitor to the
party which elected you, & are rewarding the loyalty of the
negro race with the blackest ingratitude'!"
With all due deference to you Mr. Editor, I cannot utter the
words which you have been pleased to put into my mouth.
I do not think Pres. H. is a base "traitor" or guilty of the
[*2814*]2
"blackest ingratitude." Pres. H. is not the man which
you are pleased to describe him. Possibly my judgment
in this favor is biased by a desire to obtain office, as you
charitably intimate, but, upon reflection, I think that even you
will see that your indictment is unwarranted by the facts in the
case. Pres. H. has been but two months in the Presidential chair
& his time and attention have been fully occupied with the pressing
duties of his great office. His policy towards the colored people
of the country, if he has any, has not yet been formulated,
and it is quite too soon to denounce him on the assumption 
of what that policy will be when it is formulated.
Mere denunciation upon our part, whether uttered standing,
sitting, kneeling or lying, is mere sound and  fury, signifying 
nothing. Hence you must excuse me for refusing to
"stand up" & say the words you have put into my
mouth.
You say I am an office seeker. In one sense I am,
& in another sense I am not. If you mean by an office seeker
one who will be recreant to principle in his greed
for office, I deny the charge. Some of the wisest and
best men of the country have sought office & are now
holding office, & why should I not do the same? Besides,
my dear Sir, what are you fighting for? If I understand
it your complaint against Pres H. is that he has 
appointed no colored men to offices. If to seek and 
obtain an office is to demoralize its possessor, you
 should rather applaud than condemn the Pres.
for keeping negroes out of office. This would be the
logic of the case. But I will do you the justice
to say that you do not discourage colored men from
seeking office generally, but you desire that I should
not be among them, You make my case special.3.
You say I am rich. How do you know it?
Pardon me, but this is one way to destroy the
influence of a public man, & it has been resorted
to in my case, in a very reckless if not a
very dishonest manner. But what if I were rich?
Would that be a discreditable fact? You say I am
independent of the white race. This, my friend, is a
gross mistake. Neither you nor I can boast any
such independence. The pen with which you
write, the paper upon which you write, the types
with which you print, the office through which
you [them] send your papers, are all the products
of the white race. We are not yet in a position
to send forth a declaration of independence. I certainly
am not. Now, all I ask you, & all I ask of those
papers that make my address delivered in Washington
on the 16th of April, the subject of bitter denunciation of me,
is, to print the address, that it may be seen what is
the head & front of my offending. Several colored
papers have had the fairness to do this, & it is only
the justice accorded by all fair minded men to those whose
conduct is seriously called in question. If my speech is fairly 
read, it will be seen that I have made no war upon any
creditably conducted colored newspaper. The sum of what I said
upon this point is in these words +++- You will see that 
the only papers that have any right to be offended at me are the 
mean & despicable papers whose existence is a hindrance
rather than a help to the cause of the colored people. And I
certainly do not regard the Conservator among [them]
this class of journals.
Respectfully yours
Frederick Douglass.Letter to Conservator,To the Editor of the Conservator,

Dear sir, In [your number] the Conservator of May 4th you say you want
me do sundry things all of which, no doubt, seem to you well right
and proper, [in your judgement] and among these is the following :
"We want him (Douglass) to stand up - and say to President 
Harrison, you are wrong; you are sacrificing principle to policy; you 
are proving a traitor to the party that elected you and rewarding
the loyalty of the negro race with blackest ingratitude."

With all deference Mr Editor, you ask me to do a very
unjust [thing] . and a very indefensible thing. Thus far I do not see
that President Harrison has sacrificed principles to policy. If 
I did see any such baseness in the President, I would hesitate
to say so - office or no office. He who brings an accusation of
the nature against the President should be prepared to prove .
I have watched the utterances of President Harrison very
closely - and I see nothing in any word or deed to justify
me in using any such language as you have employed.
Let us have no hasty and inconsiderate judgements of the
President. You are quite right in saying I want the office 
of Recorder of Deeds. Why should I not want it? It is a good
office and many [of] other men want it. White men want it 
black men want it, [yellow] and even neither white nor black
want it.  I see nothing wrong in this. You call me an office
seeker. I am not ashamed of the charge. If I am man enough
to want an office, I ought to be brave enough to ask for it -
Your talk about my wealth is misleading.  I am amused by the
gross exageration of my worldly goods but what if I were as
[rah] rich as Mr Blaine or Mr Windom.Nov 14th
Dear Mr Douglass
When I 
last called at your house 
you were about going away
for a time, but assured
me you would see me
on your return in relation
to that business matter, 
Please let me know 
when you will call,
Very Truly,
E J Crittenden
714 11th St NW
[*2730*]15. Grove Terrace
Leeds - 9th Jany

My dear Friend!
I send this hasty
line enclosed in one to Mrs.
Baines, written to her in reply
to a note received from her
this day, briefly telling me
what their Kaity is doing
at Leavenworth & Washington,
& begging me to send her a
list of names of people to
write to & apply for aid -
I have sent no list: but 
requested her to write to me:
sending me the extracts 
from Julia Wilbur's letters &c -
I have felt it my duty
to inquire why Rosetta
was not appointed their
teachers &c - - & whether she
was examined by any
one, & pronounced unfit
[*1858*]to teach?  I have given the
ladies a good rub against
prejudice & done my best, 
very politely -
I have a nice little sum
of money in hand for you,
and am so tired of waiting
for a few pounds more that
I really shall send it (V.C.)
next Friday -  Some of
the Societies are so slow! &
want reminding so often -
Adriana Rose £3 - which I
have for her, please -& that
will buy her a good dress, if
she wants one - give her my
love & if she likes to write me
a letter telling me what she is 
doing in New Jersey, it may
do good -
I write in excessive haste
to save the mail - the
printing of my last letter

was terrible - so many grammatical errors.
I am made to correct - Tell Freddy to please,
mind, next time!!
With our best wishes, my dear friend,
united to kindest regards, & the hope of hearing
soon from you, believe me now & ever
Your faithful friend,
Julia G. Crofts -*Crofts, Julia G. to FD
n.d.
Ja 27London - Jany 27th
My dear Friend /
I did hope to 
have been bright enough 
to write & send off a letter
for the Paper this week: 
but I really have not been 
equal to it - Confinement 
to my room with this long
protracted influenza as
well as dearth of material,
must plead my excuse -
of course, I am hoping to
see my cotton letter (of
which you make such kind
mention) in the February
Paper: & if you have reserved
my other one for March,
it will be all right - & in
over two weeks, please God,
I will send the one for 
April -- one that I particularly
[*2784*]wish to be published
 in the April issue;
because it is intended to
scatter to the winds all
hopes of my enemies, & all
fears of my friends that
I propose giving up or lessening
my work for the 
slave, & for your Paper -
I have announced to
write this letter, for your
April paper - but have not
as yet, the brain, to finish
it - & if I sent it now, it
would be too early - I have
only left the house twice in
11 days - once was to hear a
lecture upon slavery - from
Rev. W S Ingram - from British
Guiana; the other time,

was to address the children
of the Haverstock Chapel 
Juvenile Missionary Society,
on slavery - so, dear friend,
never believe that I shall
desert the Anti-slavery 
Banner!
Now, as a matter of business,
dear Frederick, I am going to
speak of the matter of a notice
of the event proposed for 18th
March - & I do so in the
full confidence, that you 
will not misunderstand
me - our long & unbroken
friendship assures me of this -
The 18th will, you know, be a
Friday - that night the American
mail leaves London -
[I] I will see that a notice is
written for your Paper, as for the
[other] English Papers - & sent
to you at once - be sure I 
shall not forget to putin a line - you must get
this announcement, all
being well, by the end of March
& I have been wishing you
could delay, for a few days,
after the usual time, [your]
the publication of your
April Paper - & to manage
to put the notice in - your
own good wishes - for I know
you have them (bless you, dear
Frederick!) -- & let all come
out together in the April
Paper - my letter inclusive,
& if that April Paper reaches
England by even the third
week in April: it will be
far better than letting all
stand over till the May
number - you have ever
so much natural 'sense'2
of propriety as to what is
best in delicate matters,
that I leave all with you,
feeling assured that you will
understand my wishes - &
let what is said, by you, be
as promptly - & briefly said
as possible, or rather as consistent - -
But if you can,
maybe my letter, for April,
& the letters, all be published
in one number - & then,
all being well, you shall have
letters, for Moritleties, regularly - -
I always have 
thought that if you could
let us have - each humbly,
by the middle of the
month - (say 14th or 15th)
it wd be better than at
the very beginning of the
month - -  I quite forgot,
last Friday, to give youto Crofts' message. He desired
me to give you his
warmest love. He was so
surprized to see the extract
from his letter in your Paper -
He never thought of your publishing
when he wrote his
letter to you, but I know he
feels pleased. He is a most
warm hearted man - & very
much inclined to receive any
report of people - so he loves
you already - & felt so pleased
with your kind message - 
I have requested the Rochester
Society to lend (as a gift to their
corresponding British Societies,) three
copies of Solomon Northrup  -
when they send them, will you,
kindly, send me a copy of
Whittier's Poems, for myself? -
I would often read them if I had
them - when writing upon slavery
& write in the book please -

Please God by & Bye, : I hope to form
some Juvenile Anti-slavery
Societies - in York as others, among
the heir Connexion Wesleyans,
& true of those anti-slavery 
Societies, as seeing in the States,
would be very useful - Here
we have no regular anti-slavery
poetry - or rather rhyme -
Being requested to send to
Miss Porter a note from the
Dalkeith Society. I shall address
the packet to her -
your will get it free - Do
you know I have written several
thousand letters (anti slavery,)
since I came over? - & the expense
of postage has been enormous -
I have written so lately, that
I will [now?] close - with earnest
prayer that God may bless you,
& take you into his safe keeping,
believe me, now & for ever
your faithful friend,
Julia Griffiths, [*Crofts*]
a letter just came from Mrs. Susan, speaks
of your very nice letter to her -I never see the weekly
it never comes. I miss it
much.  By & bye I plan to have
it sent to Huddersfield
I like to see it.
Please send us a note for
Dalkeith.  They are warm-hearted
& spirited - & highly
favorable to you & to your country.
Friday I am too unwell
today to keep my appointment
(anti-slavery) with Wm Ingram -
whom I heard lecture lately.
I gave him your book of lectures
& he quoted copiously from them
& gave your cause fully.
God bless you - kiss dear little
Annie for me.Haverstock Hill[, Eng.]1 4 Feb[ruar]y [1859].

My DEAR FRIEND

I regret much to waste your postage—in sending what must be to you an unsatisfactory note—but I must do the bidding of the members of some of our Societies & tell you that the interests of your nice, new interesting paper will be ruined, if the papers are not regularly sent over—Mrs Johnston of Montrose, (an old friend,) states, she has only had 2 papers for her 10/—all the other Montrose papers were stopped, some time ago, because they did not get them regularly—& Mrs Johnstone will stop, if her paper does not reach her—The Barnsley Society only now take one paper—& never get it—They are very angry—& all apply to me on the subject—my old friend Mrs Fisher has not had a paper for many months—I will now send again these three address—and May you, dear friend, either to see to it yourself or to employ Oliver to see to it, or to get some careful, competent person to mail the papers regularly—for I cannot but feel and [illegible] that the directions are but half written—& I have true reasons to know, as mine have, innumerable times, been misdirected.

JULIA GRIFFITHS,
JAMES GANN

LONDON!!

[P.S.] I always tell the ladies who write to me to enquire how it is, that I cannot, tell & yet, I have inward compunctions that I scarcely tell the truth when I to Say—
I am truly grieved, dear Frederick to tease you with this business; but I am most anxious that no drawback shd. exist to the wider circulation of the Paper—& its often appearing [illegible] occasionally is a great drawback

I must not write a long letter this time—Aunt7 is still confined to bed—& four ladies are here—yet I wd. not miss the mail.

Pray send these people this year’s numbers, if possible—& See their names entered—

A letter from Rev: M. Fisch,8 Paris, came to day, says that nine of his lady-friends will be happy to meet me there, to talk over Slavery—

God bless you, My dear friend—kiss dear little Annie9 for me. Give my kind regards to all, & believe me, ever,

Your true & faithful friend,
JULIA GRIFFITHS—

[P.P.S.] See that the Paper is sent to—
Mrs Johnstone
Water Side
Montrose
Scotland
Mr Lister
Post Master
Barnsley—
Yorkshire—
Mrs Fisher
Mapes Hill House
Willesdeer
Middlesex

send these regularly—
Enter papers of
Miss Urwick
Joseph Allan
Mr Manders
William Webb

} all Dublin

also,

Miss Hincks Belfast—
Miss Evans, Clonmel
Miss Forster—Clifton
Mrs Young, Culdaff House Ireland—

all paid one year—
These are old subscribers, & I conclude their addresses are, already, properly entered in the book—& I have not given them here, in full—
Hanley, Staffordshire
Feb'y 23

My dear friend Frederick,
Most welcome
was your intensely interesting
letter of January 4th
I can assure you - I speedily
made lengthy extracts therefrom
& sent them to the "Leeds
Mercury" in which they were
immediately published - &
from which they have been extensively
copied & widely circulated
up & down our land
What would I not have given to
have been a silent witness of
your meeting with "Sister Eliza"!!
Indeed your whole visit to
old Baltimore City must have been
one of intense interest & excitement.
You know how fully
I sympathize with you in this,
as in all the [slavery?] incidents,
and affecting details of your
wonderful life - May the God
who has thus far protected
you amidst so many dangers,
still watch over you & permit
you to set all your people free!!
[*2644*]Through my friend Mrs. E.
Sturges I hope we shall have
that admirable address written
by you & emanating from the
colored convention published
in the March number of the
A. S. Reporter - I don't believe
much is changed in a year; but
I wrote to the Sturges - Edwin
saw him - & they told me to
send it - If he does not return
me my only copy of
the address & "proceedings" you
must please send me another
copy - I am so glad
they made you President -
it was only just and proper to do 
so -- Yes, you are quite
right in assuming dear Fdck
that should you start that
talked of paper in Baltimore
I will strain every nerve to
aid you in the effort - but 
further don't leave that
dear old house on the hill!! -
I want to see the three generations
there, altogether!!! - &

and to lead the other little
Annie by the hand under the
peach trees!! - Who can tell
what may be! -- The Gerrit
Smiths kindly & frequently
refer to Dr. C. & resigning over to
America some day - Who 
should you think is staying
under our roof at this time?
Mrs. Brett of Toronto - She
came over with her remarkable
father Rev. Dr. Richardson -
who has undertaken a mission
to this country in connection
with his church - they sailed
from New York 4th Feby - landed
in Liverpool & came direct
here - Dr. R is off to London -
Mrs. B - will make Hanley
head quarters & visit about
independently of her father -
Do you remember her? - a
superior Christian lady -
She brings me a missive from
Mrs. & Dr. Willis - They are
coming over (d.v.) this summer -
The present winter is, with us,
unusually severe & there
is such illness and miserydeaths. We are in much
trouble just now in consequence
of the sudden & most
unexpected death of a
very excellent young man
to whom our Lizzie was engaged
to be married.  The 
engagement was not of long
standing, but one highly satisfactory
to both families concerned,
a Hanley gentleman
30 years of age.  He was extremely
well connected & very excellent
in himself.  Only ill 38 hours -
carbuncle at the back of the
neck, brought on congestion of
the lungs.  Poor Lizzie is in
deep grief. I know she will have
your sympathy.  Of course
you will know of the Carpenters'
removal from Halifax?  I hope
that our old friend Mrs. John
Smithson (S.A. Morris) has
succeeded Mrs. C as Secretary
to the Halifax A. S. Asso:
Last Tuesday's meeting there
was to decide that point.
Mrs. Hargreaves wrote to mention15. Grove Terrace
Leeds. 15th April
My dear Friend/
Many of your
friends have been anxious
about you for some time past &
very welcome was your letter of 
23rd March, which did not
reach us until this morning _ It 
seems to have been longer on the
road than usual - & I began to fear
you had ventured too far south - 
Be ever careful when you are 
near the borders of slavery, I pray 
you. - The contents of your letter, 
my dear friend, are most interesting - 
& encourage us to 
hope that all is going forward
in the right direction - I mark
all you say, & shall send an
extract from your letter to the
Leeds Mercury, as I did before -
& then I ordered two dozen copies
& circulated them in all directions 
[*2636*]The particulars of the cheque 
I have enclosed are inscribed 
on the paper in which it is 
folded - I wish the sums
were larger: but I expect to 
send you more soon - & having 
had the Edinburgh money 
by me for some time, & the 
Aberdeen also, I will send 
without further delay, though 
I fear you will be  off to Maine 
before this reaches Rochester - 
Please hand the £5  to our 
friend Miss Porter, with my 
kind regards. It is from
the Edinburgh Society for the 
Rochester Society - I felt myself
but ill pleased when their
last reports  came to me, without 
a line, & without one word
in their report of the founders 
of their society, without whose 
devotion to their interests their 
cause would never have brought 
before the British Friends at all, 

and without whom consequently  
they would never, as a society,
have received any donations 
from the old country - Some of 
them seem to me strangely to 
have forgotten this!! - There is 
great difficulty to obtain any 
donations for any other object 
than the "Freedmen" - but, 
I have marked what you say 
concerning the Washington 
Freedman's Aid Society" & the
money never sent you for "Contrabands"
please send then, if
you still approve that Society -
a few lines about them that
I may copy & send around to
some of the friends will be very
acceptable.  The Aberdeen folk
are very strict & will expect
a receipt from headquarters
for their £s. I mean from the
Washington Secretary or Treasurer.
In looking over any papers with
accounts of monies sent I find
that at two separate times,the sums of £3-17-6 & - £3-15-6 
towards the proposition you made
concerning the piano.  From the 
present amount I have deducted
£7-10- making, in all £15-3- towards
the purchase at £40 -- I have 
been blamed by Aunt very much about 
the piano - & I blame myself 
that I did not deduct the
whole in 4 installments, as you 
requested - but be that as it 
may, all will be quite right, I 
doubt not -- [I] there is a sad 
blank in the loss of the paper -
and so many friends enquire, &
still will have it that you are gone 
south to fight, that I have 
much to do to assure them 
you yet live in Rochester- & lecture, 
as usual - A letter to me, relative 
to this, would help me in my 
efforts in your behalf, very much.
I do wish you would rescue 
the paper - its stoppage was a 
great mistake - I hope you 
have let the Halifax friends 
know, by the same mail that15, Grove Terrace
Leeds, May 20th

My dear Friend Frederick /
I have the 
pleasure to enclose £20 -
from the Bristol Ladies
Anti Slavery Society - who
commission me to send it
to you on behalf of the Colored
Freedman's Aid Society" you
recommend to me as being
located in Washington -
Please send it to a sure
person, & forward to me the
receipt, dear Frederick, together
with your acknowledgement - The
Quaker friends send their
£20 - from Bristol are (I grieve
to say) in common with our
Birmingham friends & often
sadly suspicious, just wont as
to the rectitude of the colored
people. That you may let
[*2643*]who [?] mean, I enclose a letter
to me, written by Mrs. Edmund
Sturges. I feel keenly on the point :
& wish earnestly, that if time 
permits, you will, when acknowledging 
this £20. on behalf 
of the contrabands, send me
such a letter as I can send
round to a few of my A. S.
friends. You are at full
liberty to refer if you like to
the fact of my having sent
you Mrs. Edmund Sturges'
letter to read - I trust
that letters, the last being
sent, will have reached you
safely?  Be assured that
nothing will be wanting on
my part to secure aid for
your efforts & your race -
The Doctor is now at the 
Annual Conference at
Ashton. The heat from
the last week has been intense.

Such a May has not been [?]
in England for many years.
We are half packed for
removing - and if nothing
unforeseen occurs we expect
to go to Hanley.
Potteries
Staffordshire
on the 3rd I leave -- so, please
my dear fd address these
in reply to this - & "make
a note" of the new address -
My love to Rose. Thank her
for her letter - & tell her I
will write (S.A.) when we have
removed - We go to the best
circuit in our Connection, but
I am sorry to quit Yorkshire
on some accounts, especially
on account of our present
nearness to Halifax friends
Mrs. Hargreaves spent Wednesday
with us, to say goodbye & expressed
most kindly for you - I trust
that, long letters, you have[?other] good friends the
[writte?] [?ters] ? - I am sorry the
[?] [?] had to wait so
long - but I told Mr Carpenter
I felt convinced you were
away when her letter reached
Rochester - I write in a
great whirl, my dear fd
expecting the packers every
minute! The children
join me in kindest love &
best wishes - Remember
me kindly to Mrs Douglass - &
to the boys all of whom I
fervently hope are safe - The
horrible atrocities exercised
on the poor colored people in
the war make us brim with
indignation - Alas! for
the fiendish character of Southern
nature! Pray, keep away
from Southern boundaries -
May our Heavenly Father guard
& bless you in every ways your
true & faithful friend
Julia G Crofts. -
Remember to send the photographs -The Cross
St. Leo's, Hunts.
May 24th
My dear friend,
I had been
looking for a letter from
you for some time past
expecting an announcement
of your speedy coming, 
and now I have read
your epistle twice through
and feel that the time
is uncertain, although
we may hope to see you
& Mrs. Douglass in Athens
are being well before the
harvest is past, if not
before summer is over.
Notwithstanding the 

[*We usually close the house
the end of July -
but if you go
to Ireland
& Scotland 
first, as you
now say, 
all will
come right. 
but any time
you must
come.*]

[*2648 *]

troublesome "ifs" involved
it certainly is complimentary
to the way in 
which you have discharged
the duties of your office
that they can find no 
one suitable to fill said
office - So you know 
we (viz I & Lizzi) looked for
you a month ago: & watched 
for a telegraph - from [?]
announcing your arrival 
there - of course I did wonder
you had not written 
first!! but expected you
had disposed of your affairs
promptly! - a Paragraph
in the "N. Castle 
Chronicle" puts us on the
qui vive! - it said you

had started - so even 
your smoking room
was prepared!! -
If you come from the U.S.
first to Ireland & thence 
to Scotland, I may give
you the first meeting in 
Glasgow - where (if
nothing unforseen occur
to prevent) I have promised
to spend the month of
August - but should 
you come earlier than 
you now seem to think, 
or come when you will, 
dear old friend, be sure
to send me a line - that 
our arrangement (your's& mine, I mean) may
not be at cross purposes
as to time &c -- because
we shall hope to have you
& Mrs. Douglass here for as
long as you can spare us
and Lizzi is quite prepared
to take my duties
here that I may have
the great pleasure of
introducing you to Paris:
where I have such a
snug, cozy hotel - kept by
two charming ladies -
whom I now number
among my personal
"friends"- & dear Frederick
do you remember how you
used to teaze me in thoseold days about my
"friends"? & how much I
extolled them - !! - How
long ago that all seems;
I have been much interrupted
& so must close
more hastily than I could
wish; as I will not miss
this first post, in assuring
you, dear old friend that
it will be a great pleasure
to welcome you & Mrs.
Douglass to my cozy home;
I have no doubt that you
will have many invitations
to lecture - whether you
will see fit to accept them
all is another matter -"Home Rule" is too vast
a subject to enter before
here - & the Liberals themselves
are widely divided
on the subject -- I am not
a "Gladstonian" - a man of
mighty intellect but a
traitor to Protestaintism -
While the R. C. Creed stands
"no faith with heretics" what
can we expect but cruel
persecutions from that Church -
this granted "Many R.Cs are
better than their creed" - 
Hoping that we may meet
once more ere many months
have passed, believe me
as always yr., faithful old friend,
Julia G. Crofts
Kind regards to Mrs. Douglass.15.  Grove Terrace 
Leeds. 3rd June

My dear Friend /.
Imagine my
joy when a fortnight since, I
received a warmhearted
note dated London from dear
Mrs. Charles Miller of Peterboro;
telling me their party & whereabouts,
& wishing to see us in
town as soon as possible - saying
that but for the ill health of
dear Mrs. Gerrit Smith they wd
have come down to see me -- I
replied, & Mrs. M. wrote again, &
the result was that Doctor C.
kindly allowed me to do as I
wished, & off I went & joined
them at their West End Hotel &
spent five delightful days
with them all - Dear Mrs .Smith
looks, to my thinking, better than
ever I knew her, & Mrs. Miller
[*2642*]is as amiable & sweet as ever -
and a real "good time" we
all had! - talking over old
times & old friends! & old stories.
The two gentlemen (Mr. Miller
and Greene) left us very much
to ourselves, & a very happy season
the two dear ladies & I had.
My reception, both by Mr. M & Greene,
was also, a very warm one, tho'
Greene is not apt to be fond of 
the English! - Do you know
him at all? - There is no apparent
resemblance to his 
valued father - he being a
"fast" young man, engrossed
in pleasure-taking - kind-
hearted - & generous, & I should
fear, an easy victim of the designing.
--- The whole party left 
London for Scotland the day after
I came back. I heard from them
from Edinburgh, thence they

make a rapid tour - then on to
Belfast & Dublin - thence to
Liverpool & home by the steamers
of 21st June.  So they will be about
starting, as this reaches Rochester!
I expect to be in London
when they sail, & cannot see them
off - I feel it would be too melancholy
to take leave at Liverpool.
I had the privilege of hearing
of dear Mr Smith's letters to them.  
How beautifully and graphically he
writes!  What a rare man he is,
& every whit as noble is his dear 
daughter, so upright - & so like
her father!  We often mentioned
you, my dear friend Frederick, I
can assure you! - & Mrs. Smith told
me of her call at the hill with her
father, since your return from 
England -- they have had a
grand tour in Europe -- There is 
much concerning them, I [ju'gh?] wd
chat to you about, that I do not
deem it wise to write about, so I must
bid adieu to them, dear loving fd
as they are! So soon as I haveseen the Great Exhibition (which
was not got into order at the
time of opening) I will (d.v.) write
a letter for the paper - (ready for
August monthly I trust;) - we went
to several grand places together
but not to that.  I having chanced
to go to London on the 7th June &
then to visit it - Dr. C. goes to his
conference then - & will, at that
time come to the close of his
Presidential year, which I shall 
be glad of -- for he has had too
much work, even for him! -
We cannot be free from illness, yet
ought to be thankful that it is
no worse!  My Aunt yet keeps her room,
and the good Hannah is laid up. Surely
never was there a spring with more illness
& more deaths! - Your letters of 
22nd April & 9th May came safely. &
were most welcome! - May God keep
you from all harm, amidst these times
of war & bloodshed! - I dare not trust
myself to enlarge on American matters
here.  I am sending this, thro' Miss
Porter, to whom I am remitting some moneys,
I hold a small sum for you, which will,
I hope, be added to, by & bye.  I markwhat you say, concerning the piano, &
thank you - I only wish Mr. Fogg would
settle up; 'tis too bad of him - I told
Mrs. G. Smith the circumstances, &
she agrees with me, that to write to
him, & enclose it to Gerrit Smith
might do good. So, I think I will
write by them!  am not sure. Fogg
might, perhaps, feel ashamed that
Gerrit Smith should know his debt
to me.  I do not know, precisely what
he owes!  & shall refer Mr. Smith to
you, if I write -- principal & interest
were mixed up in his payment.
Doctor, Lizzie, & Matty unite in kind
love & best wishes for you. Is Rose
still in Philadelphia? What of the
boys? Is Charlie still at Mr. Pearson's?
& Lewis & Freddy in the office? Alas!
for the printing of my letter in the
May number. There were more
mistakes than I have seen in any
six preceding letters! - Why has our
good Oliver left you! -- Remember
me kindly to Mrs D & all the children
(Children though no longer!)
and with best wishes, believe me now
and ever to remain, your faithful and
affectionate friend,
Julia G. CroftsMiss Amé Draz has told you of the
death of dear Miss Rawson - you
will remember what a [nova?] 
creature she was! so "friend after 
friend departs"! May we, very dear
friend, be found ready, when our
call comes! God bless & keep you -
& permit you to see the day for which
you have so long & faithfully labored -
viz : that of Universal Emancipation -posted you five papers
(Telegraphs) this last 7
days - & you will have 
one mailed with this
or just after this - I am
very desirous that you
read carefully the [?]
that I send you- (Do, dear
Frederick  I am utterly
disgusted with one of these
new theories - Sept Number
of the 19th Century is on my
table now. I have dipped 
into 4 of the articles & I
think to myself can the
writers really be in their
right minds.
May good angels guard
you & may God bless you,
prays your faithful old Fd.
Julia G. Crofts
Kind regards to Mrs. Douglass.
Ever remember what a
cheerily influence a letter from you
has - so please write
soon.
their business he says.
I sent Arthur £100- some
years ago, & he always
pays the interest regularly -
but just and
when all the accumulated
expenses of our
dear one's long illness &
of the gloomy etceteras
that follow have come
upon me, I could not do
what my dear nephew
wanted & the effect
on my foolish nerves
was such that I was taken
very ill. A violent
attack of English Cholera
but mercifully it yielded
to the remedies &
with God's blessing, I have
had no return, only am
rather weak & low.
I haveonly 11 boarders this
time - and about 
the same number of 
day pupils - and I
need 4 or 5 more good
boarders to make all
right & straight in the
"L.S.O." but, if I gave up
I should nothing for my
poor 3 children - You
did not see Pellie - a
lovely little lad, 10 years 
old - & very bright &
quick - Harry will so
far as I know stay
the winter in Glasgow -
Pellie's quarterly board &
school money has gone
off tonight - Harry's 4th
quarter is due in a fortnight -
& so the weeks
roll on! My young 

people have just begun
to work for the poor of
our town - a dreadful
winter here is expected
so many men out of work -
and when the paper
mills close there will be
400 more unemployed
men - women & children
I read to the girls while
they work on half holidays
we began with "The Cricket
on the Hearth"- suitable -
our governesses supper
book is "[Martin Chuzzlewit?] "
neither new, dear old friend
to you nor to me! -
Now pray, pray don't
idle behind any more
wild horses.- I am so 
glad you mean to stay
at home this winter- it 
is much wiser.  I haveposted you five papers
(Telegraphs) this last
days - & you will have 
one mailed with this,
or just after this - I am
very desirous that you
read carefully the Spurgeon 
that I send you - So, dear
Frederick - I am utterly
disgusted with some of these
new theories - Sep'r number
of the 19th Century" is on my 
table now! I have dipped 
into 4 of the articles - & I
think to myself can the 
writers really be in their 
right minds? -
May good angels guard
you & may God bless you 
prays your faithful old fd
Julia G. Crofts
Kind regards to Mrs Douglass
Ever remember what a 
cheerily influence a letter from you
has - so pray write
sooncould I be made to believe
this could be so - with 
large property these things matter, 
not - but - my poor dear
children! so innocent - so
guileless - & so heedless -
You ask me, dear Frederick
what my plans are? & it
is so kind of you to interest
yourself in me & mine - so 
I write, in confidence - I
came home very cheerfully, 
all things considered - feeling
I had done (or tried to do)
the best I could for their future
- & two days after came 
an urgent appeal from 
dear Arthur for a money
loan. This was so painful 
to me because I felt it wd?
be the greatest impudense
for me to lend any of my 
decreasing & [?]  capital - & as 
I think Arthur a dear 
good fellow, to say "no" was
so trying - He & his young
partner Mr Ballerstadt
want more capital [for?]The Cross, St. Neots
24th
My dear Friend,
When your
kind & most welcome
letter reached me, not 
one week ago tonight my
wish was to reply at once
for it seemed clear to
me that my Sept letter
had not reached you.
when you wrote on the 25th 
Septbr why of course I
wrote to you dear Frederick
within 48 hours of our
dear one's departure &
she left us on Thursday
the 8th.  On the evening of the
9th a paper (containing the
announcement of her
decease) was mailed to
you. & I followed it quickly
by a brief letter.
to hear
[*2646*]received on the 25th Sept
letter in case a kind
note from Mr Douglass
I wrote the day I received
the offer and missing
my 6th but - the day before
I went to London by my
law business - I do feel
so sorry that I made such
a point of "District Columbia"
it seems so absurd where
we have corresponded for
40 years for me to misdirect
it - & at such a time
too! - My letter 6th Oct - enclosed
a note for Mrs. Douglass,
by whose kindly sympathy
for me in my great sorrow
I have felt much touched -
I was six days away from
home - going from here direct
to the lawyers (close to the
guildhall) by appointment
and there, what with changes
& alterations, the "wire"

was only brought to me
for necessary signing, &
witnessing the [?]
before I left town - but
for this business the lawyer
would have done me more
good - for I was with kind
friends one of them dear Mrs
Buckley who corresponded
with me all the time I was
in the States - & who was here
when our dear one left us -
I understand little of my
English law - but I do think
its dreadful for small property
party to be so fettered by
legacy duty - & more. And
to think that in the eye of the
law, step children are not
related - & so of every hundred
pounds left to Hattie
or my poor dear little grandchildren
ten per cent is
deducted - legacy duty -
Seeing is believing - so that
until I saw the property
lawcould I be made to believe
this could be so - with 
large property these things matter, 
not - but - my poor dear
children! so innocent - so
guileless - & so heedless -
You ask me, dear Frederick
what my plans are? & it
is so kind of you to interest
yourself in me & mine - so 
I write, in confidence - I
came home very cheerfully, 
all things considered - feeling
I had done (or tried to do)
the best I could for their future
- & two days after came 
an urgent appeal from 
dear Arthur for a money
loan. This was so painful 
to me because I felt it wd?
be the greatest impudense
for me to lend any of my 
decreasing & [?]  capital - & as 
I think Arthur a dear 
good fellow, to say "no" was
so trying - He & his young
partner Mr Ballerstadt
want more capital [for?]The Cross, St Neots, Hunts -
Oct'br. 13th 

My dear Friend Fedk.
You will have
been wondering how it is I
have not written long ago?
I will now tell you - I was
suddenly seized with "lumbago"
as I was carving dinner
on the 2nd Tuesday of July - 
and was laid up many
days - and at the end of
July I went to a "Hydropathic
Institution" for Baths &c
at "[Fair Cheliose?]" - and
got quite well again -
but the very day before that
on which I had arranged
to go on to my son-in-law's in
Glasgow I met with an accident
through my foot

[*2638*]slipping off the high step of
a waggonette - & then giving
my leg a violent blow - 
I did not think much of 
it at first - so I took the
journey - & then was laid 
up in Glasgow for more
than a month - with a 
frightfully inflamed leg --
[?] was feared but
mercifully that did not
set in -- and very thankful
am I to tell you that
I have a whole sound leg
once again but that being
kept so long in bed - with 
"bread poultices" constantly
on does not tend to raise
one's spirits!! - though I feel
devoutly thankful to my
loving Heavenly father for


restoring me again - & enabling
me to walk about
once more -- I cannot 
tell you that our poor old
country is in a better condition
than it was many
months ago -- "The Times are 
bad" everyone says -- "No
business doing" no money
about -- depression everywhere
-- and so, of 
course all feel it 'more
or less' -- Now the coming
Election is occupying the
thoughts of the many, -
I don't seem to care which 
of our two great parties
comes into power - Gladstone's
ecclesiastical appointments
have entirely disgusted
many among us - 
a great liberal in speech
with the bulk of the difficultiesworshipping him he steadily
marches on the road to [?] 
whither numbers are following
him. Beresford
Hope gleefully told the 
other day in the "Great
Church Congress" that he rejoiced
to say there would
both be a large & fine
crucifix erected on the
altar of "St. Paul's Cathedral"'
--- & many "love to
have it so" - & "what will there
be in the end thereof?"-
well! my dear friend I
am not writing very
brightly - I know you have
an affectionate interest
in dear old England- & so
I write to you as I think on 
the subject of our country -
we have rank infidelity
& gross superstitions [awry?]us - bringing forth terrible
fruits - & until our
Augean stable is cleansed
we can expect little
but national judgments
principally, the cholera
has been, thus far, withheld
from England - 'The visitation 
in Spain has been very 
heavy - & lighter visitations
of that dire malady
have appeared in other
places - - I saw the 
widow of dear Dr Robson
Rice - she has been afflicted 
with paralysis - & is now 
wheeled from room to room -
She looks very bright & cheerful'
dear, dear woman as she
is - you remember Mr
John Sucittes? - He died, 
long ago. His widow & daughters
live very near to Mr &
Mrs Griffiths (Arthur & Hattie)I saw her twice - she is
watching by the sick bed 
of one daughter - such a 
talented dear girl - but
I fear consumption has 
set its seal on her - There 
is such a blank, among our 
old Scotch friends! So few
left - Miss Eliza Smith is 
yet alive - at Helensburgh
I am told - the last survivor
of the family - In all 
probability, so far as we can
now see Arthur & Matties
home will be in Glasgow
for some years to come if they
live - & his business continues
to prosper -- the only business
that I know of that does prosper,.
Paper - but people must have 
paper for their walls & their 
books & journals &c - & the trade, 
as they represent it, is Swedish

their paper mills are there
& the head of the firm (who 
married my niece Mary 
Griffiths) is a Swede - &
a man of great business
energy - He says his telegrams
cost him £300- a year - that 
sounds rather American, I 
think! - Now dear 
friend I must enquire about 
yourself & Mrs Douglass - &
yr family? I trust you are 
all well - & that you coming
across the Atlantic is only 
delayed - & that all being 
well we may meet some 
time next year, please God -
you may rely on an old 
friend's welcome for yourself
and Mrs Douglass - I could 
not & did not press your
coming over this year - Cholera
was prophesied for London
as well as Paris - and 
we knew that when itreaches Paris, London is 
not far off - Foreign travel
has been greatly lessened
this year - & Scotland over
crowded as last year -
Do let me hear from you 
soon - & with kind regards
to Mrs Douglass - believe me 
as always, your faithful friend, 
Julia G. Crofts
Lizzies's kind regards -
[Hattie?] has two dear little 
children - 1 three years old
& the other 4 months -the desirableness of writing
the two Halx societies? I advised
strongly against such a
movement, feeling assured
that, should it take place, the
friends would disappear in
quite a different direction -
Mrs. E. [Stenge?] writes me that
mention is made of Miller McKien
coming over in aid of
the contrabands - is this so? -
please, reply - I was asked
what I thought of him? - Like
R. Pilsbury, I suppose he can
be any thing for the time
being!! I certainly shall
not recommend him as a
devoted friend of the Colored
people!! - Several of our
A. S. Committees are soon to
meet - & I hope to send over
some results soon - The [Birg?]
Negroes' Friend Society has just
remitted me a donation
for you - in response to the
ex. I sent them from yr.last letter. I hope to add to
it before sending it. All the
extracts, letters and papers you
send me I manage to select
from & circulate - & thus
much good is done. Write
soon again my dear friend;
& don't go too far south I pray
you not be allured away
into dangerous places - How
gloriously the cause of freedom
is advancing - there is
truly great cause for rejoicing
in the recent doings
of Congress and of good honest
Abby - that much abused
man! How difficult must
his position have been throughout
the struggle! The 23rd
July 65 will be a signal
day in the history of America.
May your life be spared
my dear Frederick, to see your
heart's desire fulfilled - and
not a single slave left in
the States of America.

My letter has been much
interrupted and I must Close
it earlier than I feign wd
do - ours is a busy life in
Hawley - & our visiting is
endless - We seldom know
what a really quiet evening
is - the late hours try the 
doctor much - and he has never
recovered from the effects of
his [?] illness - so much
bronchial tendency - which,
by the way, is, here, very prevalent
- cold has been intense
for England. And so much
damage with it.
Please remember me very 
kindly to Mrs D. - Rose - & all
the boys. And kiss dear little 
baby Annie for me - I know
I should love it. is she like
that other dear little Annie
that was such a pretty little
baby sixteen years ago?
How time flies, my dear
old friend - We are allhurrying on, & one after
another disappeared from among
us - May we strive to look
above the toil & turmoil of
this present state of being even
while engaged in its duties -
& then when "life's short day is
past," may we enter into that
eternal "rest that remaineth"
for all that love God -
God bless & preserve you, my
very dear friend - in Him
be your trust - All our circle
join me in kindest love, &
best wishes for you - I send
you an extract from a recent
letter of our good friend Mr
[Limby?], which will show you
you are not forgotten here - &
will be warmly welcomed
whenever you come over again -
No one will welcome you more
heartily than Dr Crofts - of that I
can assure you! Remember
me to all enquiring friends,
& believe me as always
your faithful & affec'ate friend,
Julia G. Crofts.Gateshead on Tyne -
Co. Durham -
Oct 11th
My dear friend Frederick /
I do not
think you & I have even
before been so long in exchanging 
letters as now -
and, yet, I, for my part,
can assure you that I
am as much interested
in all that concerns yr
interest - yr family - & yr
good cause, as ever - &
nothing brought old times
here to my mind than
the paragraphs that went 
through the papers & which 
announced that "Percy," 
poor, ill used Percy had
come to light & really
reached you in Rochester -
[*2641*]after so long a separation, 
what a joyful 
meeting it must have 
been! - You know how
fully I should sympathize
with you, I am sure -
Then your niece is also
in Rochester - is she not? -
I hope for a good long
letter soon - telling me 
all about these interesting 
matters - I do so much
miss your paper - its
monthly appearance always
kept us posted up -
in Anti-Slavery matters -
& it was pleasant to see 
yr well-known handwriting
on the cover of a 
paper, when letters were 
scarce - How is Rose? -
I think you have a 2nd

grandchild - have you 
not? - Are any of the 
sons married? Tell 
Rose I want to hear about 
her children; so, perhaps
she will enclose us a 
few lines - does baby 
number 1 - walk & talk? -
Grandmama will be
interested in this second
rising generation I sh'd
think? - I met our
old friends, the Carpenters, 
for half an hour in Halifax, 
in June - it was very
agreeable to see them again -
Mr C. looked poorly - you
know he never was strong &
has been very ill - he questioned 
me about a paragraph
copied from an American
paper - the purport
of which was to give the
statistics of the various 
sums ofmoney annually realized by celebrated 
American lecturers.
The noted Negro lecturer
F. D. was proclaimed
as realizing £1200 -
(not dollars) per annum -
I doubted the authenticity
of this statement, &
said I would ask you its
truth - of course, this, 
dear Frederick, makes you 
into a very rich man!!!
I believe you will be 
quite faithful with your 
old friend, Julia, in contradicting
or corroborating
the truth of this - I shall 
ever be the same - rejoicing
in all your prosperity, and 
sympathizing in adversity -
& I believe you realize this,
without any renowned appearances? -Ayrshire
Scotland
Augst. 29th

My dear Friend; 
If I have 
been long in replying 
to your last letter it
has not been that 
my old friendship is
lessening, I can assure
you - Time does seem 
to fly faster than ever 
and I can scarcely 
realize that I have 
been a month in 
Old Caledonia's land -
but so it is -  I was

[*2651*]very unwell for many
weeks before I left my
home: & consequently,
my correspondences 
had to be neglected
pro tem - & thankful 
was I when our "long 
vacation" came -
I left St Neots for Leicester
(you will remember 
Leicester & my old friend
Mrs. Gitters there:) on 26th
June - rested for a few
days there - & then came 
on direct into Ayrshire:
where for the present
my nephew son-in-law 
(Arthur Griffiths - who

is husband to Mattie
Crofts) & family [now]
reside - This is a 
sweet spot - quite
in the country - The
house stands on a 
hill side - & below
it winds an ever
singing "Bwin" going
on & on & on - ranges
of hills rise above this
strain - some "wood
crowned": others covered 
with the yellow grain -
while here & there
the little white faun
houses peep out amidst
their respective clumps
of trees - & the cattle
graze! & the sun shines!Oh! What a beautiful
world this is my dear
friend! & what a bountiful 
heavenly Father 
we have- Who gives us
all things richly to enjoy -
Arthur & Mattie are
well suited to each
other & are as happy 
as may be - & you will
readily believe that 
I ain rejoiced it should
be so! - They have one 
dear little girl - full 
of fun & frolic & mischief
too- - We had a try,
& fine drive to Ayr &
Burns' Monument the
other day - 45 miles in
all - good old Bailie2
Smith of Glasgow took
me there in 56 - By
the way nearly all that
large family, old & young,
have passed away -
I dined with dear Mrs.
Robson last week - at a
lively retreat on the
entrance to Loch Long -
"Baron Cliff -. none of
my Scotch friends are
in their town houses
now - so it is difficult
to see them - I have
been twice to the lovely
"Isle of Arran" - & once
to beautiful "Inveraray"
& altogether my visit
has been most pleasant -
I shall leave with regretbut - so it must be -
I go via Carlisle &
Newcastle -- I do not
purpose being home
D.G. until 15th Sep'tr -
School be commences
on the 16th - The good Lizzie
precedes me a fortnight
& has all ready - which 
is a great comfort -
and then, please God,
I hope to work on until
Christmas -
I thought of you dear
Frederick so much last
evening - 2 gents came &
one brought his violin - &
asked me to play for 
him - Do you play urs?
Is Mrs. Douglas musical?

Arthur G. sings & plays
organ & piano well -
Mattie is a very nice 
housekeeper - & as her
sister June is much 
the worse, you may
be sure I am thankful
that this home is so
comfortable & happy &
bright. - It is a long
way from St. Neots -, & that 
is the drawback, but 
we get used to partings
in time - especially
when "we know" there will
be none in the Better
Land"- Give my
kind regards to Mrs.
Douglass - also to Rose - 
Send me a nice long
letter soon, dear, old friend.& tell me all the 
news. &c - Who is to be
President &c? -
I met some ladies the 
other day who have estates
in middle Florida
quite Southern in 
sentiment - one of them 
said to me, that "the Blacks
were buying up the 
land there! & wd soon have
small plantations of their
own"! & what the White people
w'd do then they did not
know!! - & "Why should they 
not buy their land & work 
on their own plantations?
said I - She "did not know"
& that ended it! -
and now dear friend: 
Adieu in the true sense -
of the word - as always
Your faithful friend;
Julia G. Crofts -15. Grove Terrace.
Leeds. Aug'st 28th
My dear Frederick /
I was intending
to write to you the coming week, by
a Canadian friend of Dr. C. who
sails for Quebec on the 4th Sep'br but
Mrs Maxwell charges me with
the immediate business of requesting
their 4-Clogber Society
papers to be stopped, in Oct'br that
is, at once -: & delay, with such an
impatient body as she is, is
dangerous - so I write by "the first
mail" which starts since her
nonsensical letter reached me -
"The war" is the alleged reason
for stopping the Papers - Pray
write an article, in your monthly,
to show the necessity of continued
exutions in the cause of
the Slave - - You can manage
such an article well, & such
[*2652*]of the kind is needed to stir up
our people, in the right direction -
Who do you think walked in to 
number 15 last Thursday afternoon
& took tea with us, & came by the
Doctor's invitation to discuss next
day? Prof. Allen - I really was 
surprized to see him. He had come
to see Mr. W. Armistead - & was on
his way to London - Among other 
things he asked me whether your
son was married to Loguen's daughter?
- He understood they were
engaged - Is it so? I do hope
Freddy will not marry until he
can support a wife! - Are the boys
yet in the office?  & Charlie at the
fanning bank? & Rose in Philadelphia?
- Do tell me all the 
news when you next write, my
dear friend - You know how interested
I ever feel about the kids
house & its inmates - So, write soon
Your 4th July oration is a desirable

able, dauntless & fearless. - I do
trust you may not be injured by
its utterance - I pray you do not
venture south -& never you attempt
to fight with the sword - the
pen is your weapon!  Let the Americans
kick one another - You
have us country to fight for dear
Frederick - God is fighting against
the Americans - his retributive
justice is distinctly visible - Look
to Him - trust in Him - He is
ever the God of the oppressed - 
not of the oppressor -
I have been very poorly of
late - with a return of my old
heart malady & tic in the 
throat & neck - I am under 
medical care - am taking stut
three times a day: & bitter beer -
My Aunt & Lizzie have been
at Ilkley nearly a month - I hope
to spend next week there on the
moors, & hope to get my nerves
healed up for winter, once more -I hope to write you next week
by our friend, Rev. James Caswell -
in whom you would find a
kindred spirit; I hope he may
see you some time - He has lived
10 years in Canada & was 7
years there with Dr. C. -

Please, dear Frederick remember
me most kindly to Mrs. D. &
all the children - & all inquiring
friends - there is
only Matty here to join me in
kind love to yourself - Dr. C.
is at Annley - He is employed
though the Presidential year
has passed - May God bless
you, & keep you, & guard you
from all danger - temporal &
spiritual, prays your ever
faithful & affectionate friend
Julia G. Crofts -[Bowg??hare] 
W. Mount's Bay,
Cornwall. 
24th August.

My dear brother Frederick,

I little
thought when I received
your last kind & welcome
letter, that I should be
so long in answering
it - especially as my
impulse was to write
at once - for my sympathies
went out to
you very fully, as I felt
the still continued
wrongs perpetuated on
the people to whose
interests, you, my dear
& noble friend have

[*'2913*]devoted your life -
you say, "any time & Theyll
"but still devoted to the
"cause of the oppressed."
"but I fear that both are
"gradually slipping away" &c.
"& that others must take
"up the work, & carry it on for
"years &c - Dear brother
Frederick, the sadness of
your tone brings as I reread
yr letter - tears, as the
first reading did - -
I see no Elishans yet to
take up the 'garment,' of
Elijah - - & as yet the
mantles has not fallen -
may our Heavenly Father
in his ever cind Providence
make that time
distant - & may He
give you much wisdom
& strengthen you praise

the battles you are
called upon to fight
for your people. - & may
He guide & counsel you
by His Holy Spirit -
Now I must tell you 
something of our doings
and movements. - -
Arthur brought his little
daughter over the beginning
of June to St Nicols, to spend
a few weeks with grandma:
She was six years old on
midsummer Day - and
sat at the table & cut her
large birthday cake - & that
day week she & Daisy were
both being ill - confined to
bed - & in our Doctor McTeller's
hands - Poor Daisy with being
violent diarrhaera & dysentery -
and Vera with a dreadful
cough & sickness - so my
hands were full - & the
good "Eruma" had charge by
night - five night & day - &
& our School "exams" &c &c4
close of the term, entertainments
all coming on - 
Daisy was to spend her 
holidays here (where she &
her brother Perrie have staid 
so often. I had accepted several 
invitations from 
friends in the West of England: 
Bristol -Newport, & Calstock 
& was to wind up here - if I 
did not visit Glasgow 
well! There we were - I cd 
do nothing but "wait" (a 
lesson your old friend Justice
has not yet fully learnt). 
Meantime "typhoid fever" 
sprang up around us, in 
St. Neots-  & all looked dark 
& dismal - Arthur had 
been detained & could 
not come, his dear wife 
being taken suddenly ill - 
However, mercifully, that 
passed - he came - & saw 
our doctor - & my mindwas, to some extent eased
though the child's cough
was so violent that if it
were not whooping cough
(& she never whooped) it
was serious - I was daily
becoming more unwell
myself - & a cough began -
but I was enabled to rouse
up - got permission from 
Arthur & Mattie to bring
their sick child - & we
three I, Daisy & Vera made
the 'long 12 hours' journey
here on the last day of July -
Arthur meeting us in London
where we all slept the previous
night - The children
are both now quite well -
but I have had the most
violent & painful cough
I can remember - & a 
fortnight ago, I really thought
it was the last illness I

ever should have - but
a wonderful medicine
(sent me from Leicester
by my dear friend, Mrs
'Gittins whose name you
will remember) had, with
God's blessing, been of very
great benefit to me - & the 
cough is both loosening & 
lessening - for which I am
extremely thankful - -
I gave up all my visits &
am staying as long as possible
in this fine air -
The 2 children live out of
doors, when fine - I expect
little grandson Perrie,
(Saul's youngest boy) here tomorrow,
for a few days -
to see grandmama - we
have not met for 4 years -
though he has been at my
charge for 6 years - living &
at school in East Cornwall -
Here we are nearly at "theLand's End" - - When the
weather is fine in Cornwall,
it is magnificent - 
& the blue of the sky is 
blue indeed - "Mount's
Bay" is said greatly to 
resemble the "Bay of 
Naples " - - - but we (every
where in our Island) are
having no real summer
weather - & there is no 
certainty of anything - 
depression every where - 
"Men's hearts failing them 
for fear" - - People of every
shade of opinion seem to 
wonder & to ask: What next? - 
I have not seen a "Telegraph"
for nearly a month - but 
I read Gladstone's speech
to the Benslew workpeople - 
His attack on the "Unionists" 
is awfully severe - query 
have they deserved it? - 
What a tremendous duelis oncoming between
Parnell & "the Times
I say, "May God defend
the right" - There is
great irony somewhere -
I do hope we English
and the Americans
will not fall out! &
about such a foolish
thing as the right to fish!
I am writing at
length - I do hope &
pray that this Presidential
Campaign will 
not wear you out -
write when you can
dear friend - & with
kind regards to Mrs. Douglass,
think of me ever as
your faithful& unchanging friend
Julia G. Crofts -hope to be at home
(D.V.) on Saturday 8th Sepr
the day on which last
year dear Lizzie entered
on the "life eternal" - 
How rapidly time flies - 
Vera asks "Who I am writing
to? & being told "the gentleman
with the white hair," sends 
you her love- "a cannie wee
thing" - as the Scotch say -Penzance. Cornwall
Augst 21st
My dear Friend /
I have been 
expecting to hear from 
you for weeks & weeks!
I do hope you are not 
ill? - Here I am 
in the far west of Old
England within a few
miles of "the Land's 
End" - & where I have 
never been before -
I came in quite a 
different direction to 
what I had expected 
a few months ago -
I had accepted invitations
 [*2647*]to Scotland & Yorkshire
one from our old friend
Mrs Hargreaves in Chisior
- but circumstances 
occurred that 
made me [dera?????]
the plans - Little 
grandson, Perrie (Jane's
third) has 'been a' year in 
this warm county of 
Cornwall, on acct of his 
delicate health - I placed 
him with an old nurse
& had the opportunity of 
sending him by a young 
friend, in July 82 - He was 
then only 5 -- a lovely little 
boy - but - self willed -
I was notified by his 
nurse,

that they were afraid "he 
would get killed", as 
he climbed up & down 
the great farm horses - &c -
& - to place him under
greater restriction & yet 
to keep him in warm
quarters was the thing to
be done - & there was 
no one to do it, & to pay 
for it but "gramma" -
so down I came: a very 
long way - but I am 
well compensated - I
have placed him at St
Ives - with very kind people 
& he is to go to a day school
close by his horses - He is 
very [g] keen & quick - & loving -
May God keep him - Oh, 
Frederick, dear friend, 
that cruel mother, theonce careless reckless
girl Jane is getting
worse & worse - She has
only one child with her -
& she has lost him 3
times! She has re-married
but we don't know any
thing of the gentn -  & every
shilling that she could get
from her kind sister Lizzie
she has squandered -
I have given her a great deal,
but I never lent her any
thing - I have decided
that the three we have
away from her must not 
return - The little girl
now with her Aunt Lizzie at
Newport)  comes to me
after these holidays - &
the eldest boy harry I have
had since the death of2
his father - a very nice
boy with a very hasty
temper - was it likely
to be wise dear
friend? - Perhaps
you may be disposed to
join others of my own 
old friends in blaming
me for taking so much 
responsibility, & bestowing
of my worldly goods "what
I can"-? but I cannot
feel happy to do otherwise.
and if you can save
all your grandchildren 
from going to Tuill I am 
sure you will. - Aunt
"Mattie" (now Mrs A Griffiths) 
has the children to See
us by turns, but she &
Arthur are but beginners
in life - & are havinglittle children of their
own - - you will be glad
to know that Mattie & 
her husband are very
happy - & their first cubby
word, on either side, is
yet to come! -----
I am to spend a few days
with the dear Carpenters
as I go east from here -
& expect to visit  some of
the Boston "Ware" family
there - I expect to spend
a few hours with "Marianne"
Cash next week - I heard
from her yesterday - They have
had so many deaths - now
lately again - of the 3rd generation 
- The lives quite 
above - & the dear old
"Therborne House" is deserted. 
"Change & decay on all 

around I see", says Keble -- 
& truly, so it is -- Where
there is no struggling for
wealth on competed it
deaths come thick! - - 
What a sad things was 
Capt Webb's catastrophe! -- 
but what a daring attempt
on his part! -- 
That "Whilpore" brought
to my mind vividly
the morning that you & 
"I sat on the banks above 
it, - & watched - I threw
sticks & branches in, & saw
them whirl down!  How 
long ago it is! --  I stood
on "the Land's End" the
other day - where the
great Atlantic & our
Channel meet - the
nearest point of oldEngland To America! -
a grand sight & solemn
sound of the dashing
waves on these wild
Cornish rocks!  --
Do write to me very soon,
dear friend - I recd the 
pamphlet of your eloquent
address -  for which many
thanks - but - you never 
have sent me what I
want so much to have -
"William the Silent" -
Do -  do -  send it - & to
St Neots  - we re-commence
work - (D.v.) 17th
Septmbr, - & I expect to spend 
that last fortnight of the 
holidays with Mattie & Co - 
at South Norwood -  - -
Now my dear friend once more
farewell -  I remain as ever,

Your faithful friend,
Julia G. CroftsThe Cross, 15th July -
My dear friend
The accompanying
letter came
with your welcome one
this morning - I send
by the first post - but
fear it may miss
you - - however I shall
put on "to be forwarded"
We shall expect you
on Monday, at the
same time as before:
[*2649*]and do not lunch so
heartily, mon ami
as to prevent your
taking dinner satisfactorily 
to your hostess!!-

A nice hearty
letter from friend
Spurgeon" — but the 
mystery remains! —
I mean of authorship!!
Our poor invalid,
seems about as when
you left us - love from us both  -
Stay with us as long as
you care, dear old friend
as always, yours faithfully
Julia G. Crofts —Hastings Aug. 10th
My dear Friend
By the 
time this missive
reaches Washington,
you will find leisure 
to peruse it - which
you scarcely would
now, were  it possible
to send it by telegram[!!?]
As you take so kind 
an interest  in our 
poor Lizzie's dreadful
illness & sympathize
(like a dear old friend,

[*2640*]as you are! with me 
 in my  heavy trouble,
I send you the note 
I had from dear
Mattie yesterday 
which tells its own 
story, - & you will
see that I am now 
inhaling sea air at 
Hastings - whither
dear Mattie and 
the dear invalid
made me come on
the 4th - much against
 my will - at the 
same time,  I felt an

encreasing conviction,
that if I  were not 
taken out of the household
during the vacation
the reins of government
would be held
by a very feeble-hand
when school duties 
are resumed - 
So here I am - on 
the shores of our English 
Channel - I have
been out in a rowing
boat three times -  & 
am always feeling 
better when on the sea - 
I hope you had a fine 
passage over? - Myfriend Miss Bushell
(who saw you off for
me) told me the
passengers were many!
I hope you found some
of them agreeable? -
I expect there wd be
many Americans
returning home? -
our friend Mr. Glossop
in crossing the channel
the other day, met with
some Philadelphia
"Friends" - who professed
to have been great
"abolitionists" in the days
of old - but they are
no true friends to the
colored people - & perchancemay be related to
Miller McKine. - they
dare not invite any
coloured man (however
distinguished he may be)
to meet their friends!! -
grand abolitionism
that! - We have two
young Americans
staying in this house in
care of a governess -
very rich people!  "Old
Mien bic:" & "Niggers" -
are tonads fresh introduced!!
It makes me
so angry to hear them -
well! My friend,
I do hope you arefinding all well in
your own house? -
After being so continually 
on the move you
will be glad to settle
down? I hope Mrs
Douglass' mother continues 
better in health;
and that she, herself,
is well? Remember
me very kindly to
her. — Three weeks ago
you were with us! it
seems "long ago" since you
left St Neots - you will,
I am sure, write when
time permits - God bless
you, prays your ever faithful
old friend, Julia G. Crofts - -Kenilworth.  July 5th

My very dear Friend/
I did not
intend nearly three weeks
of my holidays to pass away
without writing  to you - but
I will not apologize for long
silence -  as we know each
other too well, after 30 years'
friendship to need the assurance
that we are "Semper
eadem" - & your welcome letter
was one of the first to greet me
in my new home - which is,
by the way, a very quaint old
fashioned abode - I like the
change -  in all respects, extremely
- & my health has
on  the whole been much better
since I made it - We are
20 in family - yet in my
own 2 sitting rooms, I can at
all times secure perfect
quiet - a great boon - Then
I am so near dear, old
London that my friends can
spend a day with me if

[*2639*]

[*no more night - no more parting - Dear little Annie is there!
God bless you! As ever your faithful friend,
Julia G. Crofts -

Doctor Crofts has been spending a week with us
at his brother's in Leamington - He is pretty well -
gives very kind regards to Mrs Douglas &
Rose -*]longer time is not expedient.
My summer holidays
commenced on the 15th June.
& terminate on the 27th July -
so, please address - 
St Neots.
Huntingdonshire. -
After spending a few days
with my Leicester friends, I
spent a long day with dear
Mrs Cash & her daughter
Miss C. ("Marianne") on my
way to Leamington - The
dear old lady has greatly
aged since this time last
year - & I do not think she
will be long before she joins
that "glorious company of the
redeemed in heaven" -  I love
her very dearly - a grand
& most noble woman - I
always found her (in those
anti-slavery days, when I
used to see her frequently,) true
as steel- Mrs. C is very good -
very kind - but too fidgetty to

be comfortable - Sherbourne
House will never be the
same when its present head
has departed to "the better
land" - - You remember
the old name. Burbery? -
I am visiting among those
dear, old friends now, those
that remain - their ranks
are greatly thinned of
late years - Our Country is
now in the perfection of
beauty - trees dressed in
their full midsummer
green - & flowers in full
bloom - What a world of
beauty this is! and yet
how sin has marred it &
does mar it - What would
I give (rather what would
not I give?) dear Frederick,
for one of our earnest talks
together - By the way
what a mess Mrs. M. W. Chapman
has made of "the life of miss
Martineau! My historianfriends are extremely indignant
at the whole affair - they say
a wise editor wd have repressed
the stinging animadversions
made on so many people - I sent 
you a "Christian World" Paper yesterday:
Garrison must attack someone!
- & now, he has the bad taste
to attack President Hayes! - I
am very sorry - How much more
noble it wd have been for Garrison to
have made hon'ble mention of
your appointment - as being
on every acct., important and
significant!  It's so mean of
him, Fredk never to name
you! - I never did like any of
that lot of folks & I never shall! -
The dear Carpenters, some time
ago gave me such a nice acct of
the Thomases visit to Washington
& yr escorting & introducing them -
I wished I had been there, too. -
Do you know I had a nice note from
Mr Carpenter written the day before Miss
M. Carpenter died - It was written in
reply to my note of sympathy on his
brother Phillip's death - I am now
daily looking for a letter from Mrs C.
I fear the great shock wd have been
almost too much for Mr C - he is so
delicate always - "Friend after friend
departs"  Dear Fredk how much [enduring?] this
life, wd be, inexplicable but for that great
meeting place - heaven - No [?]Crofts, Julia G. to FD
n.d. FRAG
Badly damagedother 10/- is from the "Coventry
A. S. Asso:" - please acknowledge
both - our quaker
[?] me very particular -
I was, nearly three weeks
ago, astonished by a note
from Liverpool from our
friend Mrs C. V. Miller - 
Being away from home at
the time, I could not meet
them during their short
stay - they (Mr & Mrs Miller
son & daughter) were en
route for Dresden - they
[intend?] being a year in
Europe - & I shall [?]
see them - on their return
from the continent
they are dear [?]
hearted people - I fear
that you & dear Gerrit
Smith do not often meet
now, do you?  I was thedistance between Rochester
& Peterboro were not so great.
I am sending a donation
from [?]: all to [?]
pater & to Loguen - [?]
my very dear friend let
us hear very soon from
you - I trust you may be
able to send good accounts
from "the hill" - How is the
little grand daughter? -
all particulars will be
interesting - Remember
me very kindly to Mrs Douglass,
Rose & the boys.  [?] 
girls send [?]
[?] love to you in which
we unite - May God bless
you, & guide & guard
you amidst all trials &
dangers prays your ever
faithful & affec'ate friend,
Julia G. Crofts -
[*3064*]2nd letter-
Salem Parsonage. 
Friday afternoon
very much relieved was I, very
dear friend, to receive, by the
two oC--- post this day, We long 
looked for letters from you -- I am
truly gladdened to see your 
hand writing once again -- Pray, 
never allow such a very long
time again to pass without
writing to us -- Surely, we have
some little claim on our friend, 
Frederick, although I never wish 
him to write when indisposed
to do so -- you speak of my correspondents
in America our
dear friend -- You know, I am
often commissioned to send
money letters to the Rochester
Society, or to Loquen, & thus, of
course, I accompany the bank
post bill with a few lines -- 
Like yourself, I have been
entirely unable to say any
thing about American public
affairs -- There's such a gloom 
[*2637*] 

overhanging the whole dis-united 
states -- that, for the
poor dear colored people, I
know not what to hope or to 
fear --- God, however, still 
reigns; & will overrule all
for the ultimate deliverance
of the oppressed -- The day looks
dark - indeed, to human
eyes - but God sees not as 
man sees - - Trust in him, 
my dear friend - & all must
be well in the end - for He
will lead you by a way you know 
not - - I am glad you advise
Loquen not to come -- There are, 
already, too many applicants
over here - Bailey has been in 
this country three weeks - We
voted him £20 - some time
since - but begged him not
to come to Halifax, at present -
There seems a great prejudice 
against Dr. Cheever with many. 

and every I have made to get
up a meeting for him any where
but in Halifax has failed -
with you I was, happily, fortunate, 
& ever have been so, in
enlisting aid & co-operation for
your efforts - Do not imagine
there is any diminution in
this respect - but, pray, keep
us informed of your movement,
and be assured that you have
our deepest sympathy in the
very unexpected (to me) turn
Slavery affairs have taken - To
have Corinthian Hall closed
to the friends of the Slaves &
a meeting held in that little
church, instead, I can scarcely
realize - "Susan", "Lucy", Parker", &
that whole crew I cordially
detest - They are so crafty, and
cunning - "[Babue?]" must be
one in disguise, Pray, if you
write a public, or private 
letter, on Dalini's attack, refer
to Susan, & Plymouth Church - 
how, they attack you forgoing to church, & now for
not going!! - I must not
omit to tell you that Dr. C. is
unanimously called to the
Leeds circuit (one of the best)
and if the Conference, (to be held
in a month,) confirm the call,
we shall move to Leeds in
June, all being well - to our
excellent house on Grove
Terrace - not far from our
friends, both in Halifax, and
Huddersfield - So, dear friend,
when next you come over, Leeds
will be your head quarters,
instead of Salem -- Much,
very much, do I wish that circumstance
wd admit of our
crossing the Atlantic this summer -
I do not despair of doing
so again, some time - Dr. C. & Lizzie
were, always partial to Canada
Farewell once again, my dear
friend; I am truly glad about
Charlie - my love to him & all
the children, with Mrs. D. - Always
your faithful & affec'ate fd  J. G. C.
Dr C's kind love -2)
let us move where we may! -
If you were to come tomorrow,
Aunt's being here would make
no difference , except that you
would have a warmer bed -
Lizzie is with aunt a great
deal - & several changes in
arrangements are made - all
for the better, I hope - I know,
my dear friend, you will rejoice
in any thing that tends
to promote my comfort - Dr. C.
left here for Brisbain on
Saturday; I expect him this
evening - were he here he wd
send his kind love to you - You
would have smiled to see
him jump up, & take down
his own likeness from (over) the
back parlor chimney piece, &
hang yours up! moving his into
a corner - I suppose the Glasgow
friends have sent you a Bazaar
circular! Poor "Aunt Margaret"!
She is really very obtuse in some
[*2645*]things, & very obstinate in others? 
I first proposed to the Glasgow
Committee to have a Bazaar, many
months ago - they were long in deciding 
- & then when they did
decide wd not find themselves
to give a penny to you or to any
especial society, on object - of
course the Wincobank friends,
through me, expressed the hope
that all the proceeds of their intended
contributions shd go to
you - I named this, & Aunt
May out sent a tartaric acid
reply! - - Their "practice is to give
to any object coming along"! -
I don't expect to send very
largely! but, shall collect some
things - for my luminous
fD & then send a letter to the
Committee - but do you
write to Miss Smith, & state your
claims yourself, as you can do
with inscrutable grace & ability!!



there's a compliment! -
how my friend, with this, I
enclose a note to Mr Fogg, will
you please, take it to him, yr
own self after leading it & second
what I say or make the best
terms with him you can I
pray you - impressing me the
result - His delay is very annoying 
- & quite too bad -
If my letter for paper had appeared
in the Octr Number, I
should have exerted myself
busy as I was, to write one for
Novbr - but I suppose it will
come in Novbr so I will send
one for Decbr & if perchance,
it does not reach in time for
Decbr print it in January
Paper - & state that your "old
world" Correspondent will resume
&c How do your boys succeed?I will write to Lewis before long -
I have not forgotten - I was
amazed to find the note I
enclose (from Mrs Peile.) awaiting
my return home: What
a Shame of Chancerovyour!
I am intensely desirous
to learn the certainty of the
Presidential election - so
much seems to hang on it -
I must close - my Aunt
desires her kind regards to
you - and all the children,
unite in love to "Uncle Frederick" -
Jane is growing a fine girl - 
& Martha reads nicely - Jane's
long visit at Leamington has
done her good -- The Rawsdens
often mention you - May our
Heavenly Father take you into
his safe keeping, my ever dear
friend, & though dark & stormy be
the way some of us have to travel,
may the end be Peace to each of us -"
your unchanging & affectionate friend,
Julia G. Crofts
kind regards to Mrs D. & all the childrenSt. Neots
Monday Morning

My darling Mother,
You will be glad to
know that dear Lizzie 
had a better night &
consequently feels better
today, she sends her love
& hopes you will stay
at Hastings a fortnight
& then take a week

[*2715*]at [Hastings] Brighton, we are all so
sorry to hear you are so 
unwell, you ought not 
to go to Brighton till you
are a little better, &
Lizzie is certainly well 
enough now to be left with 
June & Emma, they are
both so devoted to her &
I am sure they would 
send you word if she were 
worse, it seems to me 
she may live a long time 
yet, & you will need your
strength, dearest, for the
time to come. 
I enclose what has come
for you. We are all well
cared for, you need not
be afraid, Lizzie is still
able to plan everything. 
Mrs Turner called this
morning, she was very 
pleasant. Emma gota chicken on Saturday
& Lizzie enjoyed some of
it.
Much love from all
Please give my love to the
Martins if you see any 
of them
Your loving
Mattie [Crofts]Could be Mr wm E. Curtis

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The Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition 
has received from Mr. W. R. Esyes, United States Consul at 
Kingston, Jamaica, a letter in which he gives an excellent report 
of the progress being made in Jamaica in regard to the preparation 
of its exhibit. The legislative council has increased the original 
appropriation of two thousand pounds to five thousand pounds. 

General West, during his stay in Jamaica, was received vert 
kindly by the Governor, the leading citizens, and other officials 
of the colony.


Dr. Veiga, President of the state commission of Minas Geraes, 
Brazil, has written that the work of preparing for the exhibit of 
that state[s] at Chicago is progressing very favorably. An exhibition 
will be held at Oure Preto on the 15th of June at which will 
be displayed articles collected throughout the state, and from these 
the best will be selected and sent to Chicago. This state covers 
an area larger than the state of Texas and has varied products 
and a fine display will certainly be made. Dr. Veiga has 
had much previous experience in organizing exhibits and is thoroughly familiar with all the duties of his position.
[*Bulletin A.
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1 of 2The Bureau of the American Republics has received information
that the Exposition Commissioners of Ecuador have had constructed
a fac-simile of the famous palace of the Inca Perca, the ruins of
which stand near the city of Quito. This beautiful structure
will be a conspicuous feature of the Chicago Exposition. 
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