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A correspondent in the letters index

Lewis as printed

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

17 letters, sent or received · 40 places · 6 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. 14 of 40 places meet the reviewed floor.

40 places

PlaceFoldersYears
Syracuse51852–1880
Newcastle51864–1891
Bridport51864–1889
Paris61866–1891
Chicago101864–1893
Cleveland51868–1893
Cedar Hill81880–1893
Boston111852–1893
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PlaceFoldersYears
Rochester91852–1891
Philadelphia91864–1891
Providence51864–1887
Washington131852–1893
New York111864–1893
London51864–1887
Anacostia41880–1889
Baltimore41864–1885
Bristol41864–1887
Denver41866–1885
Dublin41866–1891
Haiti41889–1893
Indianapolis41868–1885
Port-au-Prince41889–1891
Rome41866–1889
Hartford31864–1883
Manchester31864–1889
Worcester31864–1868
Belfast21866–1887
Bournemouth Hampshire21864–1868
Brooklyn21885–1887
Edinburgh21864–1893
Liverpool21864–1887
Lynn21885–1889
New Haven21889–1890
Santo Domingo21883–1889
Cappahosic11893
Coneygar Villa11889
Glasgow11864
Hoboken11880
New Bedford11852
Peterboro11852

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. 1 of 6 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.

6 correspondents

PersonLetters betweenYears
Frederick Douglass 61883–1890
Dear Father as printed21887–1893
Father as printed21866–1889
Amelia as printed11863
DEAR FATHER as printed11864
My Dear Father & Mother and all as printed1—
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
Syracuse2.3×
Newcastle1.6×
Bridport1.3×
Paris1.3×
Chicago1.2×
Cleveland1.2×
Cedar Hill1.2×
Boston1.1×
Rochester1.1×
Philadelphia1.1×
Providence1.1×
Washington1.0×
New York1.0×
London0.8×
Anacostia0.6×
Baltimore0.7×
Bristol1.5×
Denver1.3×
Dublin1.8×
Haiti0.9×
Indianapolis2.2×
Port-au-Prince1.0×
Rome1.9×
Hartford1.6×
Manchester1.1×
Worcester1.6×
Belfast2.2×
Bournemouth Hampshire4.4×
Brooklyn0.5×
Edinburgh1.1×
Liverpool0.8×
Lynn1.0×
New Haven1.2×
Santo Domingo1.0×
Cappahosic1.3×
Coneygar Villa0.8×
Glasgow0.5×
Hoboken0.9×
New Bedford0.5×
Peterboro1.0×

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
Frederick Douglass35%
Dear Father22%
Father50%
Amelia20%
DEAR FATHER100%
My Dear Father & Mother and all100%