Acknowledgment of thanks for expression of sympathy in the death of Frederick Douglass

Creator

Ohio History Connection

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Identifier

MSS114_B01F04_006

Creation Date

3-4-1895

Keywords

Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans

Description

Printed text of acknowledgment:

To the many friends whose letters and telegrams of condolence have been most gratefully received, and which have been sent in such numbers as to forbid an immediate personal reply, we, the family of Frederick Douglass, desire to tender our heartfelt acknowledgment and to thank them for their expressions of sympathy for our sorrow, and especially for the testimony they have thus rendered of their reverent regard for the great soul gone.

Helen Douglass.

Rosetta Douglass Sprague.

Lewis H. Douglass.

Charles R. Douglass.

Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C., March 4, 1895.

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Primary Item Type

Personal Correspondence

Rights

This item is part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar House collection at Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio. The collection contains items from 219 N. Summit St., Dayton, Ohio (later 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar St.), the home Dunbar purchased for his mother, Matilda J. Dunbar, in 1904. Paul Laurence Dunbar lived there until his death in 1906; Matilda lived there until her death in 1934. It is now the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, part of the National Park Service.