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Letter from Frederick Douglass, Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth Buffum Chace, 1889 September 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
424695
Accession number
MA 22967
Creator
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1889 September 24.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2017.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 12.5 cm
Notes
On stationery with blue embossed letterhead: "Cedar Hill, / Anacostia, D.C."
Provenance
Purchased at Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2461 (11/7/17), lot 13.
Summary
Referring to his recent appointment as the United States's minister resident and consul general to Haiti; discussing his preparations for that position and saying that he will not be able to make a trip to New England before his departure; expressing the hope that he will be able to join in the celebration of her eighty-fifth birthday.