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9 February 1893
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to John G. Bourke
"I hate to bring in any question of race origin into our politics, and I want to see us all act simply and purely as Americans."
GLC08001
12 November 1883
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to S. S. Conant
Douglass writes to Conant, Editor of Harper's Weekly. Because of other engagements, he may have trouble writing an article for Harper's immediately. Intends to send the article within the course of a fortnight.
GLC07483.01
24 March 1894
to Benjamin Franklin Auld
Thanks Auld for helping him obtain the date when Auld's father, Hugh, began the ship building firm where Douglass served in Baltimore. Asserts that Hugh may have begun the business as early as 1827, and he (Douglass) may have been eight years old in...
GLC07484.01
9 April 1891
Thanks Auld for "an elegantly bound and finely illustrated volume containing a biographical history" of the Baltimore police. Recalls his boyhood days and many pleasant memories with the Auld family. Written on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C...
GLC07484.02
1879/05/19
The Exodus [oppression of blacks in the South and their leaving for the North]
Apparently a sentiment or quotation written on blue lined paper, removed from a notebook or autograph album. This may be unrhymed verse. "If they were generally and systematically whipt starved and shot to death and if there were no rational ground...
GLC07563
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