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

J. E. Rankin

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

9 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. 7 of 36 places meet the reviewed floor.

36 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Anacostia81885–1894
Cedar Hill81885–1894
Boston81885–1894
Philadelphia61885–1894
New York81885–1894
Washington81885–1894
Chicago51889–1894
Baltimore41886–1894
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PlaceFoldersYears
Cleveland41885–1894
Haiti41889–1894
London41885–1894
Paris41885–1890
Rochester41885–1894
Bridport31886–1889
Brooklyn31890–1894
Coneygar Villa31886–1889
New Bedford31885–1894
New Haven31889–1890
Newcastle31885–1890
Port-au-Prince31889–1890
Worcester31885–1894
Belfast21885–1886
Cappahosic21894
Denver21886–1890
Detroit21885–1890
Dublin21885–1886
Indianapolis21894
Santo Domingo21889–1890
Bristol11886
Edgewood11885
Hartford11885
Lynn11889
Manchester11889
Providence11890
Rome11889
Syracuse11890

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 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
Frederick Douglass 71886–1894
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 11894
Mr Hill as printed11889
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
Anacostia1.9×
Cedar Hill1.9×
Boston1.3×
Philadelphia1.2×
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
Chicago1.0×
Baltimore1.1×
Cleveland1.6×
Haiti1.5×
London1.0×
Paris1.4×
Rochester0.8×
Bridport1.3×
Brooklyn1.3×
Coneygar Villa4.0×
New Bedford2.3×
New Haven2.9×
Newcastle1.6×
Port-au-Prince1.2×
Worcester2.5×
Belfast3.5×
Cappahosic4.3×
Denver1.0×
Detroit1.2×
Dublin1.5×
Indianapolis1.8×
Santo Domingo1.6×
Bristol0.6×
Edgewood7.1×
Hartford0.8×
Lynn0.8×
Manchester0.6×
Providence0.4×
Rome0.8×
Syracuse0.7×

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 Douglass78%
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)11%
Mr Hill100%