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A correspondent in the letters index

E Thompson

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

25 letters, sent or received · 34 places · 2 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. 8 of 34 places meet the reviewed floor.

34 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Hartford51881–1883
Providence51880–1883
London61879–1882
Boston81879–1883
New York81879–1883
Washington81879–1883
Rochester51879–1883
Philadelphia51879–1883
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PlaceFoldersYears
Bridport41879–1882
Brooklyn41879–1883
Coneygar Villa41879–1882
Denver41882–1883
Hoboken41879–1882
Paris41880–1882
Baltimore31879–1883
Bristol31879–1881
Chicago31882
Indianapolis31880–1882
Cedar Hill21882
Cleveland21882
Manchester21879–1882
Newcastle21882
Rome21880–1882
Worcester21880–1881
Anacostia1—
Cairo11882
Detroit11882
Edgewood11882
Edinburgh11882
Glasgow11882
Liverpool11879
New Bedford11881
New Haven11881
Syracuse11882

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. 2 of 2 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.

2 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Frederick Douglass 151879–1882
Douglass (surname only, unresolved) 81879–1883
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
Hartford4.3×
Providence1.8×
London1.5×
Boston1.3×
New York1.1×
Washington1.0×
Rochester1.0×
Philadelphia1.0×
Bridport1.7×
Brooklyn1.8×
Coneygar Villa5.3×
Denver2.1×
Hoboken6.1×
Paris1.4×
Baltimore0.9×
Bristol1.8×
Chicago0.6×
Indianapolis2.7×
Cedar Hill0.5×
Cleveland0.8×
Manchester1.2×
Newcastle1.1×
Rome1.6×
Worcester1.7×
Anacostia0.2×
Cairo2.7×
Detroit0.6×
Edgewood7.1×
Edinburgh0.9×
Glasgow0.9×
Liverpool0.6×
New Bedford0.8×
New Haven1.0×
Syracuse0.7×

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
Frederick Douglass60%
Douglass (surname only, unresolved)32%