Frederick Douglass to "My dear M. Clapp" re: work in Haiti - American History 1493-1945

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC07764
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1880s
Title	Frederick Douglass to "My dear M. Clapp" re: work in Haiti
Date	13 July 1889
Author	Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Document Type	Correspondence
Subjects	African American Author African American History Caribbean Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs
People	Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	African Americans; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide May 13. 1889 Cedar Hill. Anacostia, D.C. My dear Mr. Clapp. Thanks for your kind letter of congratulation. Any thing from the brother of my old friend Henry Clapp who [illegible] by me in the hours of my destination has a value in my eyes. With you. I wish Charles Lenox [illegible] were alive. I have greatly missed him. My relation to him was such as I sustained to no other man. The work before me in hayti is not very inviting. Neither the Diplomatic now the Sanitary conditions are what I should like; but as Daniel Webster once said any man can do all agreeable duty not every man can do a disagreeable duty. How glad I shall be to see you before I leave the Country. Perhaps, & may be able to do [illegible] [illegible] through New York - Yours truly Frederick Douglass.