BIB_ID
107511
Accession number
MA 23612
Creator
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1871? April 10.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.5 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Douglass refers to two periodicals in this letter, the New National Era and the Golden Age. The year of writing is not given, but Tilton founded the Golden Age in 1871.
Provenance
Ford Collection.
Summary
Telling Tilton that he has been anticipated and "The Golden Age has already been duly advertised in three numbers of the Era"; saying how happy he was to find Tilton "again in the field. The battle with error superstition and all manner of bigotry needs your arm -- and I could not bear to have it broken or paralyzed for an hour"; commenting on the typographical neatness and elegance of the Golden Age; writing "Let the Golden Age flourish. Let it shame malice, silence envy, crush meanness -- and hasten on that true golden age which is first [pure?], then peaceble without partiality and without hypocrisy"; asking to be remembered to Elizabeth Richards Tilton and their children.
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