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Formal title:: Frost (Edwin Collins) and William Henry Frost Papers
Date range:: 1890-1941 (bulk 1890-1927)
Abstract:: This collection, dating from 1890 to 1941, consists of letters addressed to both Edwin Collins Frost (1867-1956) and William Henry Frost (1863-1902) and a small autograph collection. Edwin Collins Frost was an assistant and instructor of rhetoric at Brown University from 1895 to 1898 and the cataloguer of Marsden J. Perry's Shakespeare Collection from 1901 to 1907. William Henry Frost joined the
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.78.7

Formal title:: Martha Waldo Greene and Frederick Sherman Collection of Frederick Douglass papers
Extent:: .5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1845-1936, undated (bulk 1862-1893)
Abstract:: The Martha Waldo Greene and Frederick Sherman Collection of Frederick Douglass papers contains a total of 26 items by and relating to Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): 19 letters and documents, 5 photographs, and 2 published books. Items span from 1845-1936, with the bulk of materials ranging from 1877-1893. Most letters are of a personal nature to friends or acquaintances; some address business, speaking engagements or publishing. Collection contains a letter from author, lawyer and African American freedom activist James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Other significant materials include a mortgage discharge document listing the names of Douglass and Sherman, correspondence about the Holley Graded School in Lottsburg, Virginia, established in 1868 to educate freed African Americans, and a photograph of the San Domingo Commission.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2016.007

Formal title:: Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Ephemera
Extent:: .25 linear feet
Date range:: 1672-1926
Abstract:: The Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection contains smaller or single-item collections not part of other collections of the Providence Public Library’s Special Collections department.
Repository:: Providence Public Library, Special Collections
Collection call no:: MSS015

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