Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00470
Type: Header Record
Date: circa December 1870
Author/Creator: Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Title: Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written: Various Places
Pagination: 2 letters

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: Reconstruction

People

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Subjects

Politics

African American History

Showing 2 of 2 records

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Frederick Douglass

December 1870

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't...

GLC00470.01

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Frederick Douglass

circa December 1870

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Dated "Thursday." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (who had a home in Nahant) informed Sumner that false words about Douglass had been attributed to Sumner. Sumner clarifies that he stated that whatever Douglass may think of the "Presidential indignity"...

GLC00470.02

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]

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