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

My Dear Father as printed

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

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

38 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Port-au-Prince51862–1893
Rochester81862–1894
Baltimore51862–1893
Chicago61862–1894
Philadelphia61862–1893
Boston71862–1894
New York81862–1894
Washington81862–1894
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PlaceFoldersYears
Anacostia41889–1894
Cedar Hill41889–1894
Haiti41869–1893
Manchester41862–1894
Paris41862–1893
Bridport31867–1889
Bournemouth Hampshire21867–1868
Bristol21862–1868
Cleveland21868–1893
Denver21868–1893
Edinburgh21862–1893
Liverpool21862–1890
London21862–1893
Providence21867–1890
Santo Domingo21889–1890
Syracuse21862–1893
Cape Haitien11869
Cappahosic11894
Coneygar Villa11889
Dublin11862
Glasgow11862
Hartford11894
Indianapolis11868
Lynn11889
New Bedford11862
New Haven11889
Newcastle11862
Peterboro11862
Rome11889
Worcester11868

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 6 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.

6 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
R. D. Sprague 41867–1869
Rosetta as printed31889–1894
Rosetta D. Sprague as printed21867–1869
Nathan Sprague as printed11868
Rosetta D 11862
Rosetta W. Sprague as printed11893
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
Port-au-Prince1.9×
Rochester1.6×
Baltimore1.4×
Chicago1.2×
Philadelphia1.2×
Boston1.2×
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
Anacostia1.0×
Cedar Hill1.0×
Haiti1.5×
Manchester2.4×
Paris1.4×
Bridport1.3×
Bournemouth Hampshire7.1×
Bristol1.2×
Cleveland0.8×
Denver1.0×
Edinburgh1.8×
Liverpool1.3×
London0.5×
Providence0.7×
Santo Domingo1.6×
Syracuse1.5×
Cape Haitien7.1×
Cappahosic2.1×
Coneygar Villa1.3×
Dublin0.7×
Glasgow0.9×
Hartford0.8×
Indianapolis0.9×
Lynn0.8×
New Bedford0.8×
New Haven1.0×
Newcastle0.5×
Peterboro1.6×
Rome0.8×
Worcester0.8×

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
R. D. Sprague50%
Rosetta27%
Rosetta D. Sprague50%
Nathan Sprague10%
Rosetta D50%
Rosetta W. Sprague100%