(FREDERICK DOUGLASS) Theodore Tilton Sonnets to the Memory o

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(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) Theodore Tilton. Sonnets to the Memory of Frederick Douglass. 12 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor soiling and wear, full vertical fold; uncut; warmly inscribed by author inside front wrapper. Paris: Brentano's, 1895

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A verse tribute to Douglass by his friend, the White editor and abolitionist Theodore Tilton, completed 8 days after the death of Douglass. It is inscribed "To the Hon. John Russell Young, with the compliments of his old friend, Theodore Tilton. Paris, Ave. Kleber, April 21st 1895." Young was a diplomat and fellow journalist. None others traced at auction since 1922.