Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't...

GLC00470.01

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Frederick Douglass

circa December 1870

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Dated "Thursday." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (who had a home in Nahant) informed Sumner that false words about Douglass had been attributed to Sumner. Sumner clarifies that he stated that whatever Douglass may think of the "Presidential indignity"...

GLC00470.02

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]

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