DOUGLASS FREDERICK Typed Letter Signed a copy of a letter to

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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Typed Letter Signed, a copy of a letter to the Young Churchman Company, and on the same sheet, an Autograph Note Signed, "F. Douglass," to Jennie Marsh Parker. The letter, praising an unknown story by Parker to be published as a series in the Young Churchman newspaper, and sending money [not present] so that a copy of the series may be sent to Rev. Dr. Crummell. The note: "Among all your many obedient friends, I am sure you have not one more responsive than I am to all your commands--I have sent the above to the Young Churchman Co." 1 page, 4to; typed text markedly faded, margins trimmed (not affecting text), inscription in an unknown hand recto above note ("with a request that he circulate them in my stead"), mounted at tips to a larger sheet, few marginal repairs with tissue recto, folds; matted and framed together with a portrait and a $5 bank note from the Douglass National Bank of Chicago printed in 1921. "Cedar Hill, Anacostia, [Washington] D.C.," 25 July 1889; inscription: Np, nd

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The letter: "[The story] is a timely and truthful story, and may awaken sympathy for a class whose color is visited upon it, as a crime is upon other people.
"In view of the unreasoning and inflexible character of the popular prejudice against any one in whose veins there is a trace of African blood, I cannot but applaud your courage and independence in daring to publish a story which so boldly calls this prejudice in question. . . ."