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

Wm. H. H. Hart

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

16 letters, sent or received · 34 places · 5 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. 10 of 34 places meet the reviewed floor.

34 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Anacostia91887–1901
Cedar Hill91887–1901
Haiti51890–1895
Rochester81887–1901
Philadelphia81887–1901
Boston81887–1901
London51887–1896
Chicago61891–1901
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PlaceFoldersYears
Washington91887–1901
New York81887–1901
Baltimore41887–1896
Port-au-Prince41890–1894
Providence41890–1896
Brooklyn31891–1896
Santo Domingo31890–1901
Bridport21891–1894
Cleveland21887–1891
Liverpool21887–1890
Newcastle21887–1891
Paris21887–1895
Syracuse21891–1894
Belfast11887
Bristol11895
Cappahosic11894
Denver11901
Detroit11891
Dublin11887
Edinburgh11891
Hartford11891
Lynn11901
Manchester11890
New Bedford11891
Peterboro11894
Rome11887

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 5 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.

5 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Helen Pitts Douglass 71895–1903
Frederick Douglass 51887–1894
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 11891
Miss Messer as printed11903
Mr. Simpson as printed11902
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×
Haiti1.6×
Rochester1.4×
Philadelphia1.4×
Boston1.2×
London1.1×
Chicago1.1×
Washington1.0×
New York1.0×
Baltimore1.0×
Port-au-Prince1.4×
Providence1.3×
Brooklyn1.2×
Santo Domingo2.1×
Bridport0.8×
Cleveland0.7×
Liverpool1.1×
Newcastle0.9×
Paris0.6×
Syracuse1.3×
Belfast1.6×
Bristol0.5×
Cappahosic1.9×
Denver0.5×
Detroit0.5×
Dublin0.7×
Edinburgh0.8×
Hartford0.8×
Lynn0.7×
Manchester0.5×
New Bedford0.7×
Peterboro1.5×
Rome0.7×

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
Helen Pitts Douglass44%
Frederick Douglass31%
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)6%
Miss Messer100%
Mr. Simpson100%