Saturday 11th Dear Mr. Douglas I literally rise from my bed to tell you I cannot come into Boston to seek you at The Haydens & you must come and see me who [been?] getting better and shall be most happy to see you & must see Mrs Douglas at last, before you go. So I write this to say so, & I shall write to my mother & tell her that if you 2696are too busy to spare the time she must try Mrs. Douglas out for I know she wants to see me as much as I do to see her. Yours with great respect and affection. Elizabeth R. Peabody Jamaica Plain [?????????????]horizontal — 5 feet 4.Mowbray Cottage Sep 9 My dear Friend, I turn to you in our great sorrow - our deep grief. Our darling left us last Sunday morning. Our precious Esther can never more enliven us with her presence. Wednesday was the funeral. I wish [she] you could have seen her as she lay at rest. There was just an expression of satisfaction & peace on her face - & it is terrible to realize she has gone - gone - if we can not look to the joyous meeting we expect when our Lord comes, how could we endure it. Our darling - in much grief & sorrow yours as ever E [*2775.*]Mion Springs Sep 25 My dear friend, We are all very anxious to have you come here and shall be glad to make all arrangements for your lecture if you will send word what time will suit you. We should like to have time to spread the information so that you will have a good audience, so that it may pay you as much as possible, in this small place — I have been here three weeks my eyes have been very troublesome or you would have heard from me before. I am sure you are enjoying this wonderful fine autumn. On many a fine day I long to be sitting on that foot or two of rock [*2699*]on the waters edge at the whirlpool those poor logs making the way round day after day. The treacherous under current. The dashing foam, the hurrying water, & the helplessness of the logs amyst it all, is such a counterpart of ourselves and our life, that I find my thoughts going back there, very often it interested me more than anything I have seen this long time. I shall be delighted to see you here. I do want you to be acquainted with our school and with some of my good Frds [here]. Have you ever played croquet? We do here & it is charming. It is a game just to your mind I know. If I was in the habit of visiting you in summer, I should take into consideration the suitability of presenting you with a case of balls and mallets, but as it is, I see no chance of my enjoying a game at croquet on your grounds. I send you my picture I should hardly have recognized myself and as I never see myself sitting wheres the wonder. Do you remember about that Ambrotype I want it so much. I dont see how you can find it in your head to keep me waiting so long. I dont read the papers so cannot know much about public affairs, Doctor Robinson laments [very] much & gets discouraged, which rather disheartens me. As you feel that things look dark, is it not best to believe that the problem is working out to a ripe solution. I am almost suffering from too much leisure, and the work I have, does notcall my energies into much play. So that I am afraid my mind will be dwarfed, my eyes cannot be used in much school work, no in reality what can I do to profitably occupy myself I am farely burdened with unemployed time, & I am longing to work - tis queer but ever since I was twelve years old things have happen to teach me patience, & whatever am I going to do with it, I don't see my life amounts to anything anyway. You'll say - if you grumble in this way, I'm sure you have not profited by your lessons, so need more - if only I could know what it will end in, you are not troubled in this way. I pray you never may. tis a grand thing to have capacity & opportunity. You have both - I have neither. I am not craving anything of public lifeI herewith contribute to The Pennsylvania . . . Peace Society, to prevent war and promote Arbitration and “Peace on earth and good will to man.” $________________ _____________ To ALBAN T EAVENSON, Treasurer of The Pennsylvania Peace Society, No. 2013 Vine Street, Philadelphia. Alben T. Eavenson, Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Peace Society, 2013 Vine Street, Philadelphia. 2786 This is to Certify, that I of , do subscribe to the principles enumerated on the other side of this card, and will do all in my power to spread among my friends, also aid in extending the circulation of the monthly magazine of the Society - The Peacemaker and the Court of Arbitration. Subscription price is one dollar a year. Dues for Annual Members, one dollar. Dues for Life Members, twenty-five dollars. Address, OLIVER S. FELL ALFRED H. LOVE, 1305 Aron Street President. Business Manager. (Over.)THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. ITS PURPOSES, OBJECTS AND AIMS. WHEREAS, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are natural, inalienable rights, subject to no human government but superior to all; and, whereas whatever is absolutely wrong can never be practically right, or be innocently encouraged neither can persons perform collectively what is unlawful for individuals, nor serve self and country to the injury of mankind; and whereas, Peace is self-control, and the abnegation of carnal weapons; and the recognition of all the principles of love, justice, charity and purity make for Peace; communities and states permanently unite by attraction and consent, never through coersive violence: and the Sword is not an essential element of our social system, but like duelling and slavery, a relic of barbarous times, and owes its prevalence to popular delusion; and, whereas, wise advocates of Truth, believing in God, believe also in Man, overcome evil with good, choosing to die rather than kill, and, whereas War destroys life, invades liberty, subverts good morals and the spirit and teachings of Jesus Christ, it retards and defeats rather than injures Progress and the common welfare, and is a standing reproach to human nature. ALFRED H. LOVE, President. EDW. C. DIXON, PRINTER, 1341 ARCH ST. (OVER.) 2786To the Editor of the people's Advocate Sir: Since you have declared your Columns open under certain conditions. I avail myself of your generous offer to say That I have not one word or syllable of my letter to gentleman of the 4th District of Virginia to [cut] retract. You have been at the pains to make Laughton's reply your own. In this you have shown more haste than care. Do you, can you with your knowledge of the condition of the Freedman's Bank condone the Statement that my election to the Presidency of that Bank caused a run whou shCedar Hill Anacostia D.C. C. C. Peltey. My dear Sir: I am not the President of any society of Emigration or Connected with any scheme of Emigration. I am glad to see that many of our people are leaving the Gulf States and finding homes in Oaklahoma. I certainly wish that movement success. Respectfully yours Frederick Douglass, [*2824*]My dear Mr. Douglass Your letter has given us all great pleasure. I felt sure that you would be much interested in the new symphony, if ordered your attention had not already been called to it. You will find an article in the February "Harper" by Dvorak, which I believe you will enjoy. The symphony. [*2684*]with us, each ours desiring to be remembered. Yours sincerely, Lizzie M. Philips West Chester February the ninth. was given in Philadelphia last Monday and was truly delightful, perhaps more enjoyable than any previous number, certainly the gem of that concert. I am quite ready to believe, that Dvorak has the concert idea concerning American folklore. May I hope that you will once more hear this symphony. With the happiest recollection of your visit.My dear Sister’s I would like to have you come home very much. Father had made me a nice bow & three new arrows. I have lost one arrow on the wood-pile. I made one arrow myself but it doesn't shoot well as the ones father made. Sammy has been spading the garden & I helped him, with my new shovel which father bo't for me - he sent to Canandaigua for it - We are going to improve our place very much. Mr Luther has painted the fence & it looks very nice. - My little black [*2737*]Bantam has laid five eggs I sold Mr. Peirce for 10 cts. & two I gave to Sammy. I broke one & have got one left. We have sold 11 dozen eggs the hens lay finely-- I brought in 19 eggs in one day we have got 16 hens. My Bantam rooster is a fine little fellow & crows very nicely. My white hen I gave to Mrs. Bishop. Father is put in both master & Constable & they talked hard of putting him in town ???-- I threw in three cords of hickory wood into the wood house & sometimes I go to the mill & help Mr. Phelps & he pays me in fish. I staid there all night twice & helped him grind. He has gone to N York now I forgot to tell you that I clean out the stable every morning & have ever since father went west. I want you to answer this the next mail after you get it I can't write well enough & so get Mother to write. from your dear brother Giddie Bless you, bless you, burnie-bee, Tell me where my true love be ; Be she east, or be she west, Seek the path she loveth best : Go and whisper in her ear That I ever think of her ; Tell her all I have to say Is about our wedding day. Burnie-bee no longer stay ; Take your wings and fly away." POSTAL CARD U.S. POSTAGE WASHINGTON FEB 17 6PM WRITE THE ADDRESS ON THIS SIDE-THE MESSAGE ON THE OTHER Miss Helen Tills Box 383 Huntington [*2840*] I am glad you are "so fearfully happy" and doubt not you are getting the "cherubs" ready to have beautiful wings "stuck" on when the right time comes. The club met at Dr. Greens and read Merchant of Ven. half. and next time meets at Mr Osgoods. Friday night Hannibal took us [w/] to the Unity Club it met at the Arlington. Other groom to such [disnfectious?] that no private house can. them and meets around at the different [Hotils?]. Mr. Manifford of the congressional Sibham gave them an Essay on [Carerunis?] and titles, very good and entertaining. Last night Dr. Grace stayed with us all night she seems quite successful thus far. Been [w/?} to church [vicitorous?] Dr Briggs gave us an excellent sermon on Man or humanity Col. C was here to [church?] but left some time ago brought us some seeds wasint he good. Don't you wish you could have some seeds of some kinds. All join in love to you both. Auntie says she will visit you some time has the [ships] Yours FCopy Dear Mrs. Pitts, Let there be now no shadow between us. In a former note, which in the hope of seeing personally, I did not answer you [say:] were pleased to say "you understood me less than ever Why you said this I cannot imagine. I am entirely unconscious of having given you cause for such a remark. I want no relations with you or with any body else which are inconsistent with honor and truth. I want no hints, innuendos or implications You and I can afford to look facts fairly in the face and learn and profit by their import. Rumors and mean suspicious I despise, whether they come from false friends or open foes. My ear has been assailed by such all my life and I have risen above them. I shall not only be willing but happy to meet you with or without Miss Helen, and here with candour anything you may think it well to say to either or both of us. Whether by way of information, exhortation or warning and I hope you will be of the same temper and will hear what may be said in reply. I am sorry you cannot accept my Book It was given in good faith, and foolish man that I am, I thought it was so accepted at the time. It now seems that I was mistaken and I deeply regret the mistake. You say: It is impossible to rid myself of the idea that your Book was quite a [*2860*] willing offering” and yet you with sending me the price of the Book, as though I had sold it not given it. Was this kind or gracious in you Mrs Pitts? What would you think if I should send you the price of the slippers and bracelets you were kind enough to give me, or if I should indebt upon paying for the shovel Mr. Pitts as a neighbor has given me. I do not forget that in your letter you say many kind things and I am obliged to you for all you say of that character, but you will I am sure, see that it will be better for me in the circumstances, to defer meeting company at your house till a better understanding can be reached between us. Of course I will tell miss Helen if I find her at the office that you wish her to come over this evening. Very Respectfully yoursDear Helen My first written word shall be to you I've just had my nap & eaten my dinner & write before me so trust that cant Am impressed can't see the lines to write on but before with retaining strength is wellcome & next Jennie must time can do write the next Am too tire to write more - until next time Your aff MotherI am, dear Sir, I am dear Sir DouglassMay you be long in the land, then you may continue to speak for the rights of your countrymen. With feelings of esteem and confidence I am my dear sir, Your very truly &c. H. V. Plummer, Chaplain 9th. Cavy. 26 November Madame Please be [?en] enough to come [?] again, it is not very [?] to dare ask you [?] but I shall say [?why] - all workmen shall be here tomorrow early to pack up - My husband says that he does not comprehend very well 2617what Mister Douglass means by scaring that he shall take every we do not take us, and that [?] Douglass desire some of our [?] we are quite an [?] six position so I think it should be good to according us thisafternoon. Very truly your's Ctesse. le PotierExposition Universelle de Chicago, Commission Haïtienne. You will rejoice with me I know, that at last this first batch of our exhibits is actually on the road to Chicago. Our fears are dissipated & while the late arrival of this consignment will augment our labors still you may believe that in it's installation at Jackson Park I will apply all my energy & all my enthusiasm for the cause which we are serving. I shall put up at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, at which address I shall be more than pleased to hear from you. In the meanwhile I send you acopy of our late invoice. I also enclose in communication our secretary's bill against the office funds for his expenses in this city. I paid it without question. The rent of our office here has been fully settled to the 30th proximo but before that date our fixtures will be on their way to the Haitian pavilion - which henceforth will be our official address. Mrs Preston joins me in kindest regards to yourself & to Mrs Douglas - & I am, my dear Sir & Colleague, ever Sincerely yours Chas A Preston P.S Copy of invoice will follow by tomorrows mail an adequate cause for these. Then, you may say, there must be an adequate cause of this cause, a creator of God. No. An endless chain of causes is impossible. There must have been one cause that was not caused. You cannot conceive of a succession of causes that had no beginning, no first one. It is difficult to conceive that the first cause never began to exist; but an infinite sequence of causes is incredible. You cannot get a conception of space without limit, or oftime that never began to pass. But you know that each is surely limitless It is enough for me to know that I am gifted with no faculties that enable me to comprehend self-existence; and that mere material organization could not produce reason, nor create moral obligation. To conceive of the Universe as never had a beginning, is certainly as difficult as to conceive of God without beginning: and to conceive it as having come into being without a cause is impossible.From what I know, I argue to the unknown. The visible reveals the invisible. The act reveals the will. Everywhere we must go back from the effect to the cause. I have read most of the works of the mystics and the professors of the occult sciences, the kabalah and the Alchemists. They are unintelligible, not for want of words necessary for the clear statement and expression of their ideas, but because they had no ideas, but only penumbrous shadows on the bounds of true shadows of thoughts. Thetranslators of the Vida have made nine tenths of it mere nonsense. Endeavoring to catch images of thoughts that elude them, they express in words that mean nothing those vague efforts, and all they write is worthless. You will be pursuing an ignis fatuus if you permit yourself to get entangled in [?] of words of the people who pretend to mysterious knowledge. Always very truly your friend Albert PriceMr. A.P. Putnam, My dear sir: I have have duly received your kind invitation to meet in Danvers the few remaining veterans of the Antislavery cause and it would give me great pleasure were I able to respond favorably to that invitation. Once more I would be happy to see the forms, look into the faces and hear the voices of those whom you have invited and who expect to be present at this, probably the last of such meetings on earth. Yes, I remember Danvers, the Essex Co. Antislavery Soc., and the persons whose names you mention as residing there in the early days. [The] Those times required men and women of strong convictions and of courageous and independent character, [and they] and the persons named were such. I remember my first visit to Danvers [there] [Abner Sanger] when I was made welcome to the home of Abner Sanger, a man of high standing and who [?] could not entertain me without incurring from his neighbors much unfavorable comment [by his neighbors]. But he was not of the make to set aside his conscience and suppress his noble humane sentiments in order to please his neighbors. He stood high above the prejudices of the hour and treated me as a man and a brother. I like, too, to remember the Merrills, the Endicotts [and] the Harrimans and others. [and] Could I be with you I would bear warm testimony so the manliness and brotherly kindness which met me in Danvers in the earlier and darker hours of my career. To see Parker Pillsbury, the man who was, perhaps, the source of more terror to the proslavery church and [2830]2 clergy of his day than any other; to see John Hutchinson the [sweet singer] last [?] of the Hutchinson family a family which gave its youth, beauty and transcendent musical genius to the cause of the slave, would compensate for any trouble [and expense] a long journey would require at my hands. I am very sorry not to be able to be with you. There would be deep pathos in such a meeting for we are all changed in body if not in spirits. Some of our eyes are already dim, our hair white, our faces wrinkled, our bodies bent; and soon, as you [say] have said, there will be no more meetings on the theater whereon we once moved. There will however be a bright side to your assembling. The recollection of deeds well done, of life well spent, of wrongs successfully combatted, of a race redeemed from slavery, will make old eyes swim in young tears of joy. You ask me to give you names of persons to whom you may write. Alas, there are perhaps but few [to add] but I may add those of Geo. W Clark of Detroit, Mich. Catherine Swan Brown Spean of Passaic, N. J. Martha Waldo Greene 1 Regent St. Roxbury Mass. Geo. T Downing , Newport R. I., Chas Hill, Stamford Conn. [might be I recall to whom] letters [may be written] (Lewis Ford, Boston) Jas. C. Jackson, North Adams, Mass & [Fearon Everett, Princeton, Mass. Elizabeth Chase, Valley [Falls] Falls R.I. Charles Perry. Westerly R.I. [and invitations extended.] My My dear friend My dear sir My dear sir Carm may I hear I I all dear sir I all dear Mrs Douglass joins me in wishing to my Danvers friends a happy and profitable meeting with the veterans of the Antislavery cause Very truly yours,