BIB_ID
108049
Accession number
MA 23611
Creator
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Display Date
Rochester, New York, 1869 May 4.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.2 x 12.2 cm
Notes
Douglass may be referring in this letter to the abolitionist and activist George T. Downing.
Provenance
Ford Collection.
Summary
Asking Tilton to "[t]ake no notice in your paper of Mr. [Downing's?] note. Do for him what you did for me. Save him from himself"; enclosing a copy of a note that Douglass wrote to the person in question ten days earlier (no longer with the letter); adding that this may come too late to save [Downing], but he hopes otherwise, and apologizing for troubling Tilton.
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