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

Geo T Downing

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

8 letters, sent or received · 38 places · 2 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. 6 of 38 places meet the reviewed floor.

38 places

PlaceFoldersYears
London51862–1883
Rochester61862–1892
Boston71862–1892
New York71862–1892
Philadelphia51862–1892
Washington71862–1892
Bridport41876–1883
Chicago41862–1892
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PlaceFoldersYears
Manchester41862–1883
Providence41876–1892
Syracuse41862–1892
Baltimore31862–1877
Brooklyn31876–1892
Port-au-Prince31862–1892
Bristol21862–1876
Detroit21876–1877
Haiti21869–1892
Hartford21882–1892
Hoboken21876–1877
New Bedford21862–1892
Newcastle21862–1892
Paris21862–1877
Peterboro21862–1877
Worcester21877–1892
Anacostia11892
Belfast11877
Cape Haitien11869
Cedar Hill11892
Coneygar Villa11882
Denver11882
Dublin11862
Edinburgh11862
Glasgow11862
Indianapolis11877
Liverpool11862
Lynn11892
Rome11877
Santo Domingo11876

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 2 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.

2 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 41862–1883
Frederick Douglass 41876–1892
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
London1.4×
Rochester1.4×
Boston1.3×
New York1.1×
Philadelphia1.1×
Washington1.0×
Bridport1.9×
Chicago0.9×
Manchester2.8×
Providence1.6×
Syracuse3.3×
Baltimore1.0×
Brooklyn1.5×
Port-au-Prince1.3×
Bristol1.3×
Detroit1.3×
Haiti0.8×
Hartford1.9×
Hoboken3.5×
New Bedford1.7×
Newcastle1.2×
Paris0.8×
Peterboro3.7×
Worcester1.9×
Anacostia0.3×
Belfast2.0×
Cape Haitien8.1×
Cedar Hill0.3×
Coneygar Villa1.5×
Denver0.6×
Dublin0.8×
Edinburgh1.0×
Glasgow1.0×
Indianapolis1.0×
Liverpool0.7×
Lynn0.9×
Rome0.9×
Santo Domingo0.9×

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
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)50%
Frederick Douglass50%