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

Mary Carpenter as printed

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

49 letters, sent or received · 43 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. 38 of 43 places meet the reviewed floor.

43 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Coneygar Villa141879–1893
Bridport351864–1894
Bristol231862–1894
Peterboro81862–1894
Glasgow121862–1892
Manchester171862–1894
Hoboken61876–1885
Belfast51866–1886
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PlaceFoldersYears
Liverpool141862–1894
Worcester101864–1894
Syracuse111862–1894
Rome101866–1889
New Haven81875–1892
London301862–1894
Dublin101862–1889
Edinburgh81862–1894
Indianapolis81868–1894
Cleveland151865–1894
Haiti161871–1894
Rochester291862–1894
Denver111866–1894
Boston341862–1894
Paris161862–1894
New York371862–1894
Providence151864–1894
Brooklyn121875–1894
Newcastle101862–1894
Philadelphia261862–1894
Hartford61864–1892
Port-au-Prince131862–1894
Washington371862–1894
Detroit81876–1894
Santo Domingo61871–1890
Chicago231862–1894
Baltimore161862–1894
New Bedford61862–1890
Anacostia171871–1894
Cedar Hill161885–1894
Lynn41863–1889
Bournemouth Hampshire31864–1868
Cairo21885–1894
Cappahosic21894
Cape Haitien11871

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. 2 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
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 231862–1894
Frederick Douglass 181864–1894
Dear Sir 11865
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
Coneygar Villa4.0×
Bridport3.2×
Bristol2.9×
Peterboro2.8×
Glasgow2.3×
Manchester2.2×
Hoboken2.0×
Belfast1.9×
Liverpool1.9×
Worcester1.8×
Syracuse1.7×
Rome1.7×
New Haven1.7×
London1.6×
Dublin1.6×
Edinburgh1.5×
Indianapolis1.5×
Cleveland1.3×
Haiti1.3×
Rochester1.2×
Denver1.2×
Boston1.2×
Paris1.2×
New York1.1×
Providence1.1×
Brooklyn1.1×
Newcastle1.1×
Philadelphia1.1×
Hartford1.1×
Port-au-Prince1.1×
Washington1.0×
Detroit1.0×
Santo Domingo1.0×
Chicago1.0×
Baltimore1.0×
New Bedford1.0×
Anacostia0.9×
Cedar Hill0.8×
Lynn0.7×
Bournemouth Hampshire2.3×
Cairo1.1×
Cappahosic0.9×
Cape Haitien1.5×

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)47%
Frederick Douglass37%
Dear Sir13%