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

Gerrit Smith

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

14 letters, sent or received · 36 places · 4 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. 11 of 36 places meet the reviewed floor.

36 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Peterboro81852–1874
Glasgow51862–1874
Syracuse61852–1872
Manchester51862–1873
Rochester101852–1874
Boston101852–1874
Baltimore51862–1874
Washington101852–1874
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PlaceFoldersYears
New York91862–1874
London51862–1874
Philadelphia61862–1874
Bridport41865–1874
Bristol41862–1870
Chicago41862–1873
New Bedford41852–1870
Paris41862–1874
Liverpool31862–1865
Newcastle31862–1873
Port-au-Prince31862–1871
Providence31865–1873
Santo Domingo31870–1872
Worcester31865–1874
Anacostia21871
Bournemouth Hampshire21865–1873
Cleveland21865
Denver21873–1874
Lynn21863–1870
Rome21870–1873
Cape Haitien11871
Cedar Hill1
Detroit11873
Dublin11862
Edinburgh11862
Haiti11871
Hartford11874
Hoboken11874

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. 1 of 4 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.

4 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Frederick Douglass 81862–1873
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 41863–1874
Julia Griffiths as printed11852
the Voters of the Counties of Osuego and Madison as printed11852
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
Peterboro10.5×
Glasgow3.5×
Syracuse3.5×
Manchester2.4×
Rochester1.6×
Boston1.3×
Baltimore1.1×
Washington1.0×
New York1.0×
London1.0×
Philadelphia0.9×
Bridport1.4×
Bristol1.9×
Chicago0.6×
New Bedford2.4×
Paris1.1×
Liverpool1.5×
Newcastle1.3×
Port-au-Prince0.9×
Providence0.8×
Santo Domingo1.9×
Worcester2.0×
Anacostia0.4×
Bournemouth Hampshire5.7×
Cleveland0.6×
Denver0.8×
Lynn1.3×
Rome1.3×
Cape Haitien5.7×
Cedar Hill0.2×
Detroit0.5×
Dublin0.6×
Edinburgh0.7×
Haiti0.3×
Hartford0.7×
Hoboken1.2×

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
Frederick Douglass57%
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)29%
Julia Griffiths33%
the Voters of the Counties of Osuego and Madison100%