Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Frederick Douglass.

Title

Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Frederick Douglass.

Creator

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Contributor

Frederick Douglass

Date

1850-08-24

Description

Handwritten letter from Amy Kirby Post to Frederick Douglass. Post writes to Douglass about her stay with her family in Long Island.

Subject

Post, Amy Kirby, b. 1802

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

853

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

                 Jericho Long Island August 24 1850
Dear Frederick
                          My husband and self as thou knowest [sic]
are on a visit to my parents the delightful home
of my childhood, that I have long wished thou couldst [sic]
visit with us, and share in it bounties, participate in its
pleasures, and partake of its inspirations, It is twenty
one years since I left it for ^a^ home in the west, but it has
lost none of its attractive loveliness,     The eleventh
of this month was the 85 aniversary (sic) of my fathers birth
day, I shall long remember the day, several of his
children and grandchildren were came ^assembled^ together
on the occasion, ^my mother is^ with retrospect of the past, and
anticipations of the future, produced [illegible]
both pleasing and sad, well thought I , as Frederick
Douglass often says, “such is life”, my mother is
several years younger than my father [obliterated] have walked the path of life 60 years
together, and now they seem as happy and as full
of enjoyment as at any period of it, mutually
seeking to promotion of each others good, ^truly^ making
of this life a paradice [sic], which cannot fail to prepare
them for the joys of the next ^it is delightful to be with them^ on their sojourn and cheerful [obliterated] health is good

beautiful old age my father is an early riser
it is now early morning and he is out with
his hoe in hand cutting up some hay which his
^watchful scrupulous^ eye of neatness will not allow to spread among the grass
his garden is a paturn [sic] of neatnes [sic] and order kept by his own

(Page 2)
hands, he is a great reader, sits by [obliterated]
another, and reads hours together, the North Star
ocupyes ^is^ the most prominent position in his
^news^ paper reading, its superior execution type and ink
as well as its ^able^ Editorship attracts his admiration
thee can hardly imagine how much delightre
it has given me to behold the benign light
which this glorious star has [obliterated] here,
to me ^ the perusal [illegible] ^ its are always interesting, but now while
from home ^they^ seem doubly so, the Colonization article
and letter to the Pitsburgh [sic] 1 of August disappointed
friends are grand productions, O its worth a
journey to Pitsburgh [sic] to hear that letter read, and
commingle in spirit with its devoted Author
the breathings of my soul would shower many
blessings upon thee for it, as I trust many thousands
have, Thy treaties on Colonization, has been read again
and again by my husband, and very likely to some
unwilling ears, but thee knows he does not much
mind that, if it is only heard, blessings upon thee
Frederick, struggle on in thy noble undertaking

Annotations

Amy Post, an abolitionist is writing from Long Island to Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist leader. Post mentions her husband, Isaac Post. She refers to Douglass's newspaper the North Star.

Tags

Abolitionism; Family

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889, “Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Frederick Douglass.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 24, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3143.

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