The Frederick Douglass Papers / Connections
A correspondent in the letters index

Dear Frederick

Letters sent or received, and mentions in the folders containing them.

6 letters, sent or received · 36 places · 3 correspondents

Places mentioned in the same folders

These folders contain this correspondent's letters and a mention of the indexed term. This does not mean the correspondent's own letter mentions it.

Order is “distinctive first” above the reviewed floor of 5 records, then by count. 2 of 36 places meet the reviewed floor.

36 places

PlaceFoldersYears
New York51877–1893
Washington51877–1893
Anacostia41887–1893
Boston41877–1893
Cedar Hill41887–1893
Chicago41877–1893
Cleveland41887–1893
London41877–1893
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PlaceFoldersYears
Baltimore31877–1893
Paris31877–1893
Philadelphia31877–1893
Providence31877–1888
Rochester31877–1893
Bridport21877–1887
Dublin21887–1888
Edinburgh21887–1893
Indianapolis21877–1888
Newcastle21887–1888
Rome21877–1887
Syracuse21877–1893
Belfast11877
Bristol11887
Brooklyn11887
Cairo11888
Denver11893
Detroit11877
Glasgow11887
Haiti11893
Hartford11888
Hoboken11877
Liverpool11887
Lynn11888
Manchester11877
Peterboro11877
Port-au-Prince11893
Worcester11877

Corresponded with

Letters between these two correspondents, counted only when both sender and recipient were read from the letter itself. This does not imply agreement or affinity.

Shared letters divided by the smaller of the two correspondents' totals of letters sent and received. 0 of 3 correspondents meet the floor of 5 letters. Those rows are ordered by overlap, then count, then name; rows below the floor follow by count, then name.

3 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Geo. W. Clark as printed31877–1893
Isabel as printed11887
Susanna Webb as printed1
About this index

Dataset and reviewed rules

Tier 1: derived from the published letters index, the reviewed correspondent groups and the reviewed place list by the rules below — no inference, no model. Post-fold (sitting 2026-09-05): 169 reviewed correspondent groups; 2090 printed forms remain groups of one below the review floor, disclosed. Corpus version 5db27b8755bd; 170 records. Weighting constants: PROVISIONAL — the EC sitting's constants (2026-08-30) reused pending the Douglass correspondence sitting; changed only by a sitting. raw count everywhere — the count is the fact; ordering is presentation.

Identities: 172 of the 2,262 names in this layer are reviewed groupings. A name marked “as printed” is a form no ruling has reached — it may be one person, several, or part of another identity; an unmarked name is a reviewed identity.

Names and terms in the same records

Rule: vocabulary term (aliases OR-folded) × correspondent, FOLDER-level co-occurrence: the term's whole-word hit on a folder text × the person's letters in that folder — never letter-level (letter boundaries are not delimited beyond the anchors)

Order: distinctive first (lift)records * N / (deg_term * deg_person); N = total fts records; degrees = graph_term_records / graph_person_records counts; support floor 5.

On this page: Order is “distinctive first” above the reviewed floor of 5 records, then by count.

SELECT t.slug FROM graph_term_records t JOIN graph_person_records p ON p.slug = t.slug WHERE t.term = :term AND p.person = :person ORDER BY t.slug

Corresponded with

Rule: letters carrying both parties (the boundary sentence), grouped by the unordered pair of correspondent groups; see the builder A correspondence is counted only where both a sender and a recipient were read from the letter itself; letters with one party read are in no edge.

Correspondence weighting: Shared letters divided by the smaller of the two correspondents' totals of letters sent and received. Support floor 5. provisional; the EC alongside floor reused as the correspondence floor.

SELECT id FROM letters WHERE (sender_group = :person_a AND recipient_group = :person_b) OR (sender_group = :person_b AND recipient_group = :person_a) ORDER BY year, id

How these results are ranked

Distinctiveness (lift) compares how often a term and a name share records with the frequency expected from their separate record totals. It is not evidence of personal interest or influence.

PlaceDistinctiveness
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
Anacostia1.5×
Boston1.1×
Cedar Hill1.5×
Chicago1.3×
Cleveland2.6×
London1.6×
Baltimore1.4×
Paris1.7×
Philadelphia0.9×
Providence1.7×
Rochester1.0×
Bridport1.4×
Dublin2.3×
Edinburgh2.8×
Indianapolis2.8×
Newcastle1.7×
Rome2.5×
Syracuse2.3×
Belfast2.8×
Bristol0.9×
Brooklyn0.7×
Cairo4.3×
Denver0.8×
Detroit0.9×
Glasgow1.4×
Haiti0.6×
Hartford1.4×
Hoboken2.4×
Liverpool1.0×
Lynn1.3×
Manchester1.0×
Peterboro2.6×
Port-au-Prince0.6×
Worcester1.4×

Corresponded with: ranking and measures

Shared letters divided by the smaller of the two correspondents' totals of letters sent and received. This is the overlap coefficient, shown as a percentage.

PersonOf the smaller correspondence
Geo. W. Clark60%
Isabel100%
Susanna Webb100%