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

Helen Pitts Douglass

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

299 letters, sent or received · 43 places · 161 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. 36 of 43 places meet the reviewed floor.

43 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Anacostia491885–1901
Cedar Hill491885–1901
Cappahosic51893–1895
Haiti281888–1897
Port-au-Prince261888–1899
Cleveland251885–1894
Lynn121888–1901
New Haven101888–1891
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PlaceFoldersYears
Santo Domingo121889–1901
Newcastle171885–1895
Detroit151877–1895
Denver171886–1901
Syracuse121877–1894
Chicago421877–1901
Paris231877–1897
Coneygar Villa61886–1893
Philadelphia401877–1901
Boston471877–1901
Worcester91877–1899
Rochester381877–1901
Brooklyn171887–1899
Liverpool121887–1894
London301877–1899
New York501877–1901
Washington531877–1901
New Bedford91885–1895
Bridport161877–1894
Manchester111877–1899
Baltimore211877–1897
Dublin81885–1894
Providence151877–1896
Indianapolis61877–1895
Rome61877–1895
Edinburgh51887–1895
Hartford51885–1892
Bristol71886–1895
Cairo41888–1894
Glasgow41887–1892
Belfast31877–1886
Edgewood21885
Peterboro21877–1894
Bournemouth Hampshire1
Hoboken11877

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. 6 of 161 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.

161 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
John C. Yorston 401895–1898
John C. Yorston & Co 181895–1898
John P. Weston as printed101897–1898
The Werner Company as printed71900–1901
B. F. Leighton 101897–1903
Wm. H. H. Hart 71895–1903
Baker & Davis as printed41897–1898
John Yorston as printed41896–1900
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PersonLetters betweenYears
Myra B. Martin as printed41900
E. D. Bassett 31889–1890
H. O. Wagoner 31895–1897
J. C. Shaffer 31896–1897
John A Massie 31899–1901
John C. Yorston Jr. 31895–1897
Mr. John C. Yorston as printed31897
Anna A Gordon as printed21896–1897
C. A. J. Mann 21888–1890
Chas. A. Preston 21893–1894
Chas. S. Baker as printed21897
David Morris as printed21898
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. 21896
Frances E. Willard as printed21894–1895
Frances Willard as printed21897
H. K. Simpson as printed21899–1902
J. T. Jenifer as printed21895
Massie as printed21900–1901
My dearest Frederick as printed21887–1893
Susan B. Anthony 21895–1903
The John C Yorston Pub Co 21898–1900
[Moses?] and Sons as printed11893
A. Battiste 11891
A. J. Gilbert 11899
Abram Grant and W. J. Gaines as printed1
Alice Harvey as printed11895
Amelia F Pease as printed11893
American Publishing Company as printed11900
Annie E Walker as printed11892
B W Arnett as printed11895
Baker Davis as printed11897
Brownie B. Daggett as printed11893
C. Haentjens as printed11895
C. M. Buckbee as printed1
Capt, A. E.. Jenkins. as printed11895
Charles E Hill 11889
Charlotte Van Cleve as printed11893
Chas. A. Baker as printed11897
Chas. Mumford as printed11893
Cordelia C. Brown as printed11893
D. Angustus Straker as printed11895
D. Z. Morris as printed11895
David Z. Morris as printed11898
De Wolfe Fiske & Co. as printed11895
Dear courageous weary Frederick as printed11893
DeWolfe Fiske Co as printed11895
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 11877
Douglass B McCary 11899
Douglass Literary Association 11895
Dr. Trunnell as printed1
E Sullaven as printed11895
E. O. Trent as printed11895
EC Morris as printed11895
Eliza Barlow as printed1
Ellen Richardson as printed11893
F. M. Holland as printed11895
Frank W. Lancaster as printed11897
Franklin W. Hooper as printed11898
Frederick Douglass Jr. 11890
Fuji Tsukamoto as printed11894
G. W. Crouse as printed11900
Geo. L. Pryon R.G.L. as printed11895
Grace Greenwood as printed11892
H. Amelia Douglass as printed11890
H. L. Hayland as printed11895
H.C. Binford, F.R. Davis, A.A Sensabaugh, J.F. Humphrey, C.H. Ware, A. Barnett, J.J. Smith, J.J. Kemp as printed1
Haentjens as printed11895
Honorable John T. McDonough as printed11899
Honorable William M. Olin as printed11895
Ida B. Wells 11894
J P Maxwell as printed11895
J W Thompson as printed11895
J. B. Johnson 11895
J. Loning Williams as printed11895
Jean Brooks Greenling as printed11893
Jennie Robinson as printed11903
John C Dancy 11895
John C. Yorsten as printed11897
John C. Yorsten & Co as printed11897
John C. Yorston & C as printed11897
John C. Yorston Co. as printed11895
John J. Smallwood as printed11895
John McKeef as printed11903
John Van Voorhis as printed11894
John W Thompson 11897
John W. Hutchinson 11895
John Yorstan as printed11900
John Yorston & Co as printed11896
K. Kloss as printed11890
Kate Field as printed11890
L. A. Woodbury 11888
L. S. Mills as printed11888
Lizzie D Morris as printed11895
Louis Edelman as printed11895
Louise Barnum Robbins as printed11895
Louise Wiley as printed11895
M. W. Gibbs 11895
Magnus L. Robinson as printed11888
Mahone as printed11888
Maj. Fleetwood as printed1
Margaret Byson as printed11891
Marsh Parker as printed11886
Messrs. De Wolfe. Frike and Co. as printed11895
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Nutting as printed11895
Mr. Deyo as printed11889
Mrs Hooks as printed1
Mrs Sadie K Stokes as printed11893
Mrs. D J Vadery as printed11895
Mrs. Green as printed11889
Mrs. Stanton as printed11895
Mrs. T. J. Stewart as printed11897
Ms. Lucinda H. Stone as printed11890
N. R. Tayler as printed11895
N. Sprague as printed11889
Norah Gridley-Gridley as printed11894
P. T. Baltimore as printed11895
Peter H Clark, N Francis A Clarke as printed11895
Prof. Alexander Oldrem as printed11895
R. H. Terrell as printed11895
R. Moore as printed11895
Rev. W. A. Rice as printed11895
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe D.D. as printed11895
Robert Reyburn M.D. 11895
Robert Small as printed11895
Robt. Harlan 11895
S A Mann as printed11890
S T Mitchell as printed11895
S. H. Mann as printed11888
S. Hathaway as printed11898
S.F Newmarch as printed11889
Samuel May as printed11898
Sarah A Scull as printed11896
Sarah J.C. Blackall as printed11892
Sarah W Parsons 11890
Students of Central Tenn College as printed11895
Susan F. Hill as printed11888
T. Thomas Fortune as printed11895
T.T. as printed11895
Taylor, Garnett, & Co. as printed11899
the Director of the Seminaire Petit Collège St. Martial as printed1
the Editor of the Evening Star as printed1
The Editors as printed11891
The John Yorston Pub Co as printed11900
Thos. W. Cridler as printed11898
Victor as printed1
Victoria Earle Matthews as printed11898
W C Gannet as printed11895
W. A. Ely as printed11895
W.A. Rice as printed11895
W.C. King as printed11893
W.S. Scarborough 11895
WC Gannett as printed11895
Wilhelmina Webb as printed11885
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
Anacostia1.8×
Cedar Hill1.8×
Cappahosic1.6×
Haiti1.5×
Port-au-Prince1.5×
Cleveland1.5×
Lynn1.5×
New Haven1.5×
Santo Domingo1.4×
Newcastle1.4×
Detroit1.3×
Denver1.3×
Syracuse1.3×
Chicago1.3×
Paris1.2×
Coneygar Villa1.2×
Philadelphia1.2×
Boston1.2×
Worcester1.2×
Rochester1.1×
Brooklyn1.1×
Liverpool1.1×
London1.1×
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
New Bedford1.0×
Bridport1.0×
Manchester1.0×
Baltimore0.9×
Dublin0.9×
Providence0.8×
Indianapolis0.8×
Rome0.7×
Edinburgh0.7×
Hartford0.6×
Bristol0.6×
Cairo1.6×
Glasgow0.5×
Belfast0.8×
Edgewood2.1×
Peterboro0.5×
Bournemouth Hampshire0.5×
Hoboken0.2×

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
John C. Yorston100%
John C. Yorston & Co100%
John P. Weston100%
The Werner Company100%
B. F. Leighton83%
Wm. H. H. Hart44%
Baker & Davis80%
John Yorston100%
Myra B. Martin100%
E. D. Bassett6%
H. O. Wagoner7%
J. C. Shaffer100%
John A Massie75%
John C. Yorston Jr.100%
Mr. John C. Yorston60%
Anna A Gordon100%
C. A. J. Mann67%
Chas. A. Preston10%
Chas. S. Baker50%
David Morris100%
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co.29%
Frances E. Willard67%
Frances Willard67%
H. K. Simpson100%
J. T. Jenifer100%
Massie100%
My dearest Frederick100%
Susan B. Anthony40%
The John C Yorston Pub Co100%
[Moses?] and Sons100%
A. Battiste8%
A. J. Gilbert25%
Abram Grant and W. J. Gaines100%
Alice Harvey100%
Amelia F Pease100%
American Publishing Company100%
Annie E Walker100%
B W Arnett50%
Baker Davis100%
Brownie B. Daggett100%
C. Haentjens13%
C. M. Buckbee100%
Capt, A. E.. Jenkins.100%
Charles E Hill14%
Charlotte Van Cleve100%
Chas. A. Baker100%
Chas. Mumford50%
Cordelia C. Brown100%
D. Angustus Straker100%
D. Z. Morris100%
David Z. Morris100%
De Wolfe Fiske & Co.50%
Dear courageous weary Frederick100%
DeWolfe Fiske Co50%
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)0%
Douglass B McCary100%
Douglass Literary Association100%
Dr. Trunnell100%
E Sullaven100%
E. O. Trent100%
EC Morris100%
Eliza Barlow11%
Ellen Richardson3%
F. M. Holland100%
Frank W. Lancaster100%
Franklin W. Hooper100%
Frederick Douglass Jr.20%
Fuji Tsukamoto100%
G. W. Crouse100%
Geo. L. Pryon R.G.L.100%
Grace Greenwood33%
H. Amelia Douglass100%
H. L. Hayland100%
H.C. Binford, F.R. Davis, A.A Sensabaugh, J.F. Humphrey, C.H. Ware, A. Barnett, J.J. Smith, J.J. Kemp100%
Haentjens100%
Honorable John T. McDonough100%
Honorable William M. Olin100%
Ida B. Wells11%
J P Maxwell100%
J W Thompson100%
J. B. Johnson33%
J. Loning Williams100%
Jean Brooks Greenling100%
Jennie Robinson100%
John C Dancy33%
John C. Yorsten100%
John C. Yorsten & Co100%
John C. Yorston & C100%
John C. Yorston Co.100%
John J. Smallwood33%
John McKeef100%
John Van Voorhis25%
John W Thompson50%
John W. Hutchinson33%
John Yorstan100%
John Yorston & Co100%
K. Kloss33%
Kate Field50%
L. A. Woodbury33%
L. S. Mills100%
Lizzie D Morris100%
Louis Edelman100%
Louise Barnum Robbins100%
Louise Wiley100%
M. W. Gibbs25%
Magnus L. Robinson20%
Mahone20%
Maj. Fleetwood100%
Margaret Byson100%
Marsh Parker100%
Messrs. De Wolfe. Frike and Co.100%
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Nutting100%
Mr. Deyo100%
Mrs Hooks100%
Mrs Sadie K Stokes100%
Mrs. D J Vadery100%
Mrs. Green100%
Mrs. Stanton100%
Mrs. T. J. Stewart100%
Ms. Lucinda H. Stone100%
N. R. Tayler100%
N. Sprague13%
Norah Gridley-Gridley100%
P. T. Baltimore100%
Peter H Clark, N Francis A Clarke100%
Prof. Alexander Oldrem100%
R. H. Terrell100%
R. Moore50%
Rev. W. A. Rice100%
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe D.D.100%
Robert Reyburn M.D.33%
Robert Small100%
Robt. Harlan33%
S A Mann100%
S T Mitchell100%
S. H. Mann100%
S. Hathaway100%
S.F Newmarch100%
Samuel May100%
Sarah A Scull100%
Sarah J.C. Blackall100%
Sarah W Parsons50%
Students of Central Tenn College100%
Susan F. Hill100%
T. Thomas Fortune33%
T.T.100%
Taylor, Garnett, & Co.100%
the Director of the Seminaire Petit Collège St. Martial100%
the Editor of the Evening Star100%
The Editors100%
The John Yorston Pub Co100%
Thos. W. Cridler100%
Victor100%
Victoria Earle Matthews100%
W C Gannet100%
W. A. Ely100%
W.A. Rice100%
W.C. King100%
W.S. Scarborough33%
WC Gannett100%
Wilhelmina Webb10%