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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 to Benjamin Franklin Auld

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07484.02 Author/Creator: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9 April 1891 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.5 cm Order a Copy

Thanks Auld for "an elegantly bound and finely illustrated volume containing a biographical history" of the Baltimore police. Recalls his boyhood days and many pleasant memories with the Auld family. Written on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C. stationery.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Auld, Benjamin Franklin, 1828-1898
Auld, Hugh, 1799-1861

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