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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 to Sarah Pillsbury re: death of his wife Anna Douglass

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07752.01 Author/Creator: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1882/08/20 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.2 cm Order a Copy

Douglass writes "Thanks for your kind letter. Mrs Douglass was all you say of her and more. She was the post in the centre of my house. Different we were in many things. She was conservative and I radical, she was for the old I for the new, She did not care to learn to read - and was thus measurably that out from the things the interested me. but in all the duties of mother and wife, she deserves all you have said of her. Two people could not well live together forty and four years as we have done, without the death of either being a shock and a calamity."

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Douglass, Anna, 1813-1882

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