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

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

30 letters, sent or received · 40 places · 19 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. 23 of 40 places meet the reviewed floor.

40 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Worcester51873–1894
Rome51873–1887
Bridport91873–1894
Syracuse51862–1893
Manchester61862–1894
Paris91862–1894
Liverpool51862–1894
Denver61873–1894
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PlaceFoldersYears
Bristol51862–1894
Newcastle51862–1894
London101862–1894
Cleveland61887–1894
Baltimore81862–1894
Rochester111862–1894
Providence61873–1894
Chicago101862–1894
Boston121862–1894
Port-au-Prince51862–1893
Philadelphia91862–1894
New York121862–1894
Washington131862–1894
Anacostia71887–1894
Cedar Hill71887–1894
Brooklyn41887–1892
Detroit41873–1894
Edinburgh41862–1894
Glasgow41862–1888
Haiti41869–1894
Peterboro41862–1877
Dublin31862–1887
Indianapolis31877–1888
Belfast21877–1887
Coneygar Villa21884–1892
Hartford21874–1892
Hoboken21874–1877
New Haven21884–1892
Bournemouth Hampshire11873
Cape Haitien11869
Lynn11888
New Bedford11862

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 19 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.

19 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Wilhelmina Webb as printed41887
Ellen Richardson as printed31887
Frederick Douglass 21874–1887
Martha W. Greene 21869–1894
Arthur John Naish as printed11887
E. Peirson 11893
Eliza Barlow as printed11887
Elizth. Mawson as printed11887
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PersonLetters betweenYears
G. Frauenstein as printed11873
H. F. Pease as printed11884
John Burt as printed11887
Julia G. Croft as printed1
Julia G. Crofts 11862
L. E. Ramey as printed11892
Martha as printed11869
Martha M. Greene as printed11869
Ottilia as printed11874
R. Amé-Draz as printed11873
Theo. Compton as printed11887
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
Worcester2.6×
Rome2.4×
Bridport2.4×
Syracuse2.3×
Manchester2.2×
Paris1.9×
Liverpool1.9×
Denver1.9×
Bristol1.8×
Newcastle1.6×
London1.5×
Cleveland1.5×
Baltimore1.4×
Rochester1.3×
Providence1.3×
Chicago1.2×
Boston1.2×
Port-au-Prince1.2×
Philadelphia1.1×
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
Anacostia1.0×
Cedar Hill1.0×
Brooklyn1.1×
Detroit1.5×
Edinburgh2.2×
Glasgow2.2×
Haiti0.9×
Peterboro4.0×
Dublin1.4×
Indianapolis1.6×
Belfast2.2×
Coneygar Villa1.6×
Hartford1.0×
Hoboken1.9×
New Haven1.2×
Bournemouth Hampshire2.2×
Cape Haitien4.4×
Lynn0.5×
New Bedford0.5×

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
Wilhelmina Webb40%
Ellen Richardson10%
Frederick Douglass7%
Martha W. Greene7%
Arthur John Naish50%
E. Peirson7%
Eliza Barlow11%
Elizth. Mawson100%
G. Frauenstein100%
H. F. Pease50%
John Burt100%
Julia G. Croft100%
Julia G. Crofts3%
L. E. Ramey50%
Martha13%
Martha M. Greene100%
Ottilia4%
R. Amé-Draz20%
Theo. Compton100%