An early biography of Douglass by an African-American professor at Howard University. Blockson 2857. with--a related letter from a white student named Lottie B. Powell to her cousin Alice. In part: "The next [lecture] is by Hon. Frederick Douglass, the noted colored man. I am very anxious to hear him, for as Prof. Philips said, it will very likely be the last chance as he is an old man, and they had some difficulty in getting him even now." West Chester State Normal School, PA (now West Chester College), 20 January 1895.