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A correspondent in the letters index

Dear Father as printed

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

9 letters, sent or received · 38 places · 7 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. 6 of 38 places meet the reviewed floor.

38 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Bridport51868–1889
Chicago51868–1893
Boston61868–1893
Philadelphia51868–1889
Washington61868–1893
New York51868–1893
Rochester41868–1889
Bristol31868–1887
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PlaceFoldersYears
Cedar Hill31887–1893
Cleveland31868–1893
London31873–1887
Manchester31873–1889
Paris31873–1889
Providence31873–1887
Rome31873–1889
Anacostia21887–1889
Baltimore21868–1873
Bournemouth Hampshire21868–1873
Brooklyn21876–1887
Denver21868–1873
Detroit21873–1876
Haiti21889–1893
Santo Domingo21876–1889
Worcester21868–1873
Belfast11887
Cappahosic11893
Coneygar Villa11889
Dublin11887
Edinburgh11893
Hoboken11876
Indianapolis11868
Liverpool11887
Lynn11889
New Haven11889
Newcastle11873
Peterboro11873
Port-au-Prince11889
Syracuse11876

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. 0 of 7 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.

7 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Lewis as printed21887–1893
Charles as printed11887
Fred 11887
Frederick Douglass 11887
Lizzie as printed11876
N. Sprague as printed11873
Nathan as printed11889
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
Bridport2.8×
Chicago1.3×
Boston1.3×
Philadelphia1.3×
Washington1.0×
New York1.0×
Rochester1.1×
Bristol2.4×
Cedar Hill1.0×
Cleveland1.6×
London1.0×
Manchester2.4×
Paris1.4×
Providence1.4×
Rome3.1×
Anacostia0.6×
Baltimore0.8×
Bournemouth Hampshire9.4×
Brooklyn1.2×
Denver1.4×
Detroit1.6×
Haiti1.0×
Santo Domingo2.1×
Worcester2.3×
Belfast2.4×
Cappahosic2.8×
Coneygar Villa1.8×
Dublin1.0×
Edinburgh1.2×
Hoboken2.0×
Indianapolis1.2×
Liverpool0.8×
Lynn1.1×
New Haven1.3×
Newcastle0.7×
Peterboro2.2×
Port-au-Prince0.5×
Syracuse1.0×

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
Lewis22%
Charles100%
Fred50%
Frederick Douglass11%
Lizzie100%
N. Sprague13%
Nathan25%