Galadin, Carlo & unknown to FD ---- Ap 15 Damaged letterApril 15 Dear Mr Douglass, I take the liberty to inform you that tomorrow is the first representation of the new Veroli's Opera Othello. so many of our friends will not be present to receive you as you deserve. We have thought that the best should be if you could come instead of tomorrow night, Sunday night at nine o'clock. Everybody is expecting for you. So we will call Sunday evening at nine to take you to the Press's. We are sorry to give you so many troubles. Truly Yours Carlo Galadin [Awin??????]Pottsville, Sch. Co. Pennsylvania Frdk Douglass, Esq. Washington D.C. Dear Sir, Can you come to Pottsville, and deliver a lecture for the "Lecture association" of the place? during our comitee Course.- If you can come please name the subject of your lecture, with your terms, and probable date and oblige, Yours very Respectfully F. T. Galt [*2772*]Plase send me catalogue of yore nigro histries We wod be glad if yo will Do so We can sell A bouti 105 in mie county if you Wanto Send 1 nigro histry for [an] Sanfred [or] you can do it an I can see how miny I can sell Dont fale to an ser me send me some for sample if you PleaseSend it to name [*Lur Gary*] Po Allie Smiths mills carrll county mississppi state We are all in truble here ask me [an] what a bate an I will tell you because we have not got no histry of the nigroMy dear Gibbs: Your letter came in my absence from home, hence my tardy reply. I will gladly speak a good word for you at the state Department. But two things discourage hope of success. In the first place I distrust my influence with the present administration. I was more important before than since the election. In the second place the administration has thus far shown no disposition to recognize or concilliate the Colored Republicans North or South. There also comes an adverse way from Hayti itself. She wants a White Representation from this country. and is disposed to resent the appointment of a colored minister [as] while they are not esteemed [fit?] to be sent to white nations. There is some ground for this resentment and I think it will be repeated by this administration. Nevertheless, I hope you will send in your application backed by whatever support and influence you can command. You see that while I am right here under the nose of President Harrison I am still out in the cold and have very little assurance that I shall be otherwise IAnother error held by Colored race who speak and write of what they conceive to be the true intention of that colored people is that we ought to be a united people. They say that in union there is strength. and so there is, but thought itself may pull down as well as build up - Union on the ice where the ice weak may lead us to the bottom. Union in Another error [held] cherished and desired unto the eyes and ears of men by colored men who speak on the need of colored people in the country is the [need] security [of] for union among ourselves. They say we are eight millions and that if we were only united we could [control our dest] shape the policy of the government and surround ourselves with favorable conditions. They tell us that in union there is strength. That united stand divided we fall, forgetting that there will [saying] rules have their exceptions and that our case comes within the exceptions rather than the rule standing together [?] on the ice may send us to the bottom of the river [or] and crowding together may or break the beams of the building under us and bring to the ground. A union of colored peopled based upon color would in my opinion be a calamity. [Wherever that union [?] to]Have we a cause. Dear Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Douglass is [to day [?]] Jaskonville Fla. where [today] & tomorrow he is to exhaust his energies in public addresses. He read your letter [before going] but [was] his time was crowded up to the minute of going + work left to be completed upon his return. So you will excuse my writing you, instead of keeping you waiting. We did not know what progress you had made, I do not feel encouraged by your letter but [from] what I have learned of [the results] office seeking makes me hope you will not [tried?] rely too much upon present appearances. I do not know how it is in the offices you mention but in some, sucass depends very greatly if notalmost wholly upon one's member of Congress. Mr. Douglass only stopped to say this that he did not feel that he could ask any department to suspend it's action, that he would never ask that for himself, and did not feel that he could, and that he had not the time to go through the Interior Dept. to look for [to find] a proper vacancy. [He has to hurry back] after his return from Fla. [and] he has to prepare for delivering an address in Washington on the 16th. Mr. Douglass wishes you well and would highed to concur in any way he could for your advancement. He has been besieged day and night for his influence, [and been so importionate as to] and sometimes people have asked the impossible. Whichever way your scale turns I hope you will [not have courage] find compensations. You are a young man and ought to be able to face life with courage. Our united best wishes -Dear Mrs. Hillyer: Mr. Hillyer ought not to try to go to Office until he gets stronger It puts him back every time he does it - I send liquid which he is to take once in 2 - hours as before 2. teaspoonfuls - Put 1/4. of this to 1/3. glass of water - When his powders are gone let me know - I am so sorry he seems so weak - I do hope you will find a house on the hill - or that you have already done so - Lovingly Dr. Grace - [*2706*]Anacostia, D. C. Oct 15 H. L. Greene Esqr My dear sir; Pardon delay in answering your favor of the 2nd instant asking me to write for the Free Thinker. In reply I have to to say that I am now on the "home stretch" [Time?] is short and I have lots of work to do and I dare not take any more on my hands - you must avail your self of the powers of younger men. Although I cannot write for your Magazine I am as much as ever in favor of sustaining the rights of free and independent thinking - I however ask it to you to say that I more than formerly think a church necessary to the welfare of mankind and now attend church - and take what is good and reject what I think bad - Truly yours - Frederick Douglass [*2858*]Somerset, Monday AM 7 1/2 oct My dear Martha, It has turned out much as I feared after you became housekeeper for Mrs. Brown. You must learn to be less useful to people so that all can have some chance of seeing once in a decade. The best way will be for you to come directly here, and after this week I can have the horse and will take you about. I did not get your note by Tilley until Sat evening, tho’ my husband had it in his pocket when he eat his dinner at noon! I had sent you one by another but chec in the AM, which I suppose you received, and invited you Monday, I felt much disappointed: the tongue was boiled [*2627*]the sponge cake and graham bread made) and a refractory rooster stood ready to have his head cut off at any moment! and more than all my "colored sister" proves to be very serviceable, the very much of an eye servant. On Saturday evening I received a letter from Eva Webster - She says her mother is again very poorly with her head and back - so that she is unable to write at all and has to be down a great portion of the time. She says it has been very damp and muddy in Chicago and the weather when it affects [?] very sensibly - Eva had enlarged a photograph of Douglas to a life size, from one he had taken when last in Chicago, and when she told him she intended to copy & enlarge it, he told her when it was finished to send it to him at Washington DC - It is now on exhibition for a week or so, at an extensive Jewelly store, in the same building of the Academy of design. Eva speaks of her father as growing very old - He has a little practice as physician, but not enough greed to enlarge his income - and their support all comes from their [?] little girl, whose every moment is occupied, She has done this last picture at noon times, at which time she also writes her letters - she say her health is good, & others say she is always bright & cheerful - May & spouse are still with his brother in law - in her pretty place just opposite to the main entrance to their beautiful Lincoln park - I hear pleasant news from Mr. Wallace and family. they have a larger congregation there at Apponaug, and a veryPleasant & convenient cottage all to themselves - wouldn't it be nice if you and Aunt Lucretia could visit them in the balmy month of June? And now with much love and kind regards to Jonny and wife and your venerated Aunt. I am as ever Dorcas B. GreeneEast Greenwich R.I - My dear friend Your favor of the 5th wish is at hand. Please make my sincere sympathy to Helen and their fannie - Their devotion to their mother was a delight to me, and I am sure must be now a source of great consolation to them - This succession of the generations, is a thought, which has been forced upon my attention, constantly of late, and its deep significance has [taken has] taken on a new meaning. It is appointed unto man, not to die, in the Bible parlance, is but the every day fact that lies all around us - I will not be [*2769*]sad over it for since it is in the order of things, it must be well - Yes, my Friend, as you put it, I am bound to "light on my feet" !. I have learned my lesson too often not to learn it well, that I know not what is best, and that the things I have often most devoutly desired, have been such as would have worked not only for my great unhappiness, but my moral harm had they been granted me - It has always taken time for me to recover myself, but the "Infinite" love within the Law, that [pervates all] pervades all things, has ever worked out the best good possible, under all the Circumstances, not for me only, but for all, and here in I do rejoice. (after a time, when I am able to see it -) You speak of your appointment as Haytien Commissioner. Will there be much display? And the addition to your Life Lines = The new Editions will be of the same old, with the story hot down to time? or will you make a new deal altogether, leaving out the horrid pictures and some other errors of type and method? I would advise yr. waiting till after the Columbian Ex - that would make a good wind up, and yet to be complete it should wait till the final end, for I see not why their should not be "yet many years" [liked] in store for you after the din of action and turmoil - a quick nook away from the noisy world - Does not the quick seemattractive? It does to me - I am hoping I have found it - For years I have been feeding the hope that sometime, either with the one or the other of my own children I should be at home and mentally at rest - I have now largely abandoned that hope. And another enough younger to be my child, has called me to a home with her - I am trying the experiment and since one can never know another till living with them, I am not sure if it will prove a success, but am simply trying it - and making my self feel at home as I try - This is in Providence 179 Althea st - I come here to Greenwich Saturdays to be here over Sundays, but this will be only until the warmer weather when and always wherever I may be, there will be a welcome to you, as you journey - East or West - I am sorry Fred does not seem to rally - I trust the warm weather will be good for him, as for you. Trusting you will find time to let me hear from you, in the midst of so much to about you, I am as ever M W G.1 Regent St. Roxbury Mass — My dear Friend I grew very tired waiting for a response [f]to my letter, sent so long before you received it - Now that I have reason to suppose you are at home, you do not seem so far away — Yes! It was very fortunate I did not go to Chicago for the winter, tho' I know the Roswells really wished for me to do so; and in my indecision as to where I least wished to be, I was quite easily influenced to go to them, when a fortunate incident decided me not to do so, and within two weeks, came that dreadful collision between a Longwood train, and a Rock Island, in which that young handsome brother of his Roswell, was scalded within an inch of his life, and had not been able to be removed home, at the last accounts from them - Then three weeks ago my niece - she's 6 sniun, was attacked with Apoplexy from which she died some ten days later - And now I have to tell you of another affliction that has come to our mutual friend Mrs Adaline Nowland. You may have seen in the papers. [*2705*]Her only son - her idol on his way to N.Y. last Friday night via Steamer & F River was attached as they believe with Oritigo, and left his state room for fresh air, where a sudden lurch of the Boat, sent him over board and not till the waiters opened his State Room in the morning was the dreadful fact revealed - He had partly dis robed leaving his memorandum book in his coat pocket & some other things - one of his shoes & by which his place of business was known - It is very hard for wife & mother - They try to be brave, There is a great deal I want to know about you - and yours - Can't you take an hour in which to tell me of Rose and all her family. Did she go to Chicago? Did Annie & her husband go and where are they? And is Hattie at the same place at the South as heretofore? I am sure you must appreciate my wish to know of your loved ones, and of yourself - I want to know your opinion of the Hawaian matters, and the Cleveland's course? It seems to me he has shoun great magnaminity, but I don't see how he is going to accomplish his wish - It seems to me his enemies will come to grief through their own hazdihood - Kind regards to Helen & Jeanie - your old friend Chaether W. GHarriet H. Greenough, My dear friend your kind note has done me a real service. While I early learned to regard you as one of my silent friends and almost invisible friends who could never be in different to be anything affecting me for weal or for woe. I might have journeyed along down the tide of time without knowing the fine quality of your interest, but for the touching incident you have now related to me of your precious little grand daughter. Why [?] those dear children - they have been a pleasant picture in my memory ever since that pleasant morning. If I have any regret in the matter of getting a note from you - it is that the dear little daughter has suffered one moments pain on account of anything said or done on that occasion. [I saw] for I am not at all conscious of any rudeness on the childs part toward me. They seemed to me sweet, refined and yet natural in their deportment worthy alike of their mother and grand mother. [They] I was a stranger to them and could not expect them to be quite as free with me as with the venerable and loving Mr Sopholler to whom they clung - as Mrs Moshers dear children clung to me. [*2835*]My dear Mr Douglass My daughter Madame de Hegermann has just told me that she met you recently in Washington where she now resides and joins me in the wish to see you at her house if this note finds you here and at leisure to visit us - We both want to have the pleasure of introducing to you, Mr de Hegermann, her husband, and I write at my daughter's request to ascertain if there is any evening or other time which you could spend with us without interfering with more important engagements - I think you will be pleased with [*2771*]my son in law, who is also the representative of Denmark to this country and he is prepared to admire in you all there attributes which all who know you so much esteem and which have done for much for the exaltations of humanity and for the country in which all races now belong with almost equal rights - In the name of this humanity - I would offer my respect and the sincere regard of which I think you are already assured. Hoping to see you before I leave Washington. I am, as always, sincerely your friend, Harriet H. Greenough 2015 G. street Washington D.C. April 26thFrederick Douglass Esq. 316 A N.E. St. My dear friend, Through your friend Mrs Mosher, I hear that you are in present affliction thru’ the bank of which you had accepted the Presidency unconscious of its unstable condition — I feel a very sincere sympathy for you in a trial of this sort as I know that your sensibilities will be wounded undeservedly in many ways and that for a time you will be more or less helpless in your resistance to an evil so new to your experience— If it were in my power to offer the kind of help you need in an emergency of this kind, I should feel less hesitation in writing to you of so barren a sympathy as mine—but I trust to your generous nature, to appreciate my better motive which is to assure you of my confidence in your ability—to bring to your work even in this direction so new to you, the same integrity of purpose, clearness of perception and intellectual ability that has sustained you in far more arduous endeavour— There probably was never a time when embarrassments of a pecuniary character would have pressed more heavily upon the energies of all persons connected with business of any kind, but I cannot but hope that the limit of embarrassment will have been reached and that with the glorious harvest of which we have the promise in this favored country will provide the ways and means of escape from present stagnation in many of the most important industries of the country and that many of the broken institutions will revive and the struggling ones recover their lost ground—Hoping that you will be among the first to feel the good effects of every change for the better and that the honorable position offered to you, and taken in good faith, will afford to you another opportunity to triumph over difficulties for which you were unprepared, believe me always your friend and advocate— HARRIET H GREENOUGH Cambridge June 3rd P.S. at Mrs. Mosher’s suggestion I wrote to you of a little circumstance which she thought would interest you—but as I had not your direction she thinks may not have reached youOne evening, I was reading to the children of my daughter Mrs Hamilton as is my habit they sleep for the night— Among the pieces selected was the story of your childhood as written by yourself—after closing the book, I found the little girl weeping under the bedclothes bitterly—It was some time before I could learn what sorrow had so convulsed her that she could not speak. After a time of continued soothing, she confessed that she felt that she had [???] very rude to you, the evening you took tea with us, and she thought she could never forgive herself nor be forgiven—I did not ask in what way she had rude to you, because she was so much agitated, but I told her that should I ever see you, I would ask for her, your forgiveness—this comforted her a little, but she sobbed herself to sleep—under the conviction that perhaps she might have added by some thoughtless word or action to the trials of feeling to which your sorrowful life had felt been effused—True to my promise, I ask for her, your forgiveness, knowing that in all probability, I shall not see you as I then hoped, in Washington—as I could not go on the charitable mission which took Mrs Hamilton there, I have thus placed on record, the effect of your touching story upon the susceptible heart of this young child, who sorrows still, like by some unaccountable impulse. She had wounded the sensibility of which she first gained knowledge by the expression of your gratitude to your grandmother and of your love for her I write in haste, but I thought with Mrs Mosher, to whom I mentioned the incident that I ought to withhold from you, the knowledge, of which perhaps you had as little conception as I had of her feelings, that you could so stir the young soul into a recognition of its duties and susceptibilities by you made of narrating duly the solemn truths they unfolded— I hope I have not wounded you by this bitter incident, but that as hitherto, you will excuse me if I appear devoid of the sympathy I have always felt for you— Truly yours— HARRIET H GREENOUGH M. McKinlay, Dear sir: I am arranging to close up my matters entirely and it was for this reason that I desired to talk with you. I will send you to -morrow $8.50 discount on Mitchell's note + also Miller's. If you have occasion to come as far as the university to-morrow morning call on me. I shall endeavor to come down sometime Tuesday. When I send discount you will return me demand note. Yours Truly [*3087*]Mr. McKinlay addressed,Mr. McKinlay, Dear sir: - Will you discount the inclosed note and take out of proceeds $15 - check. All matters maturing with you will be paid 1/3. After August have arranged to take up all matters. Very truly yours, J A. McGregory If you say so will call in the morning. You may retain note if you find it convenient to accommodate me. Mr. M- and myself have some property arrangements, but we do not the note given to Mr. Arnser. [*3101*]