Mary Jones to Frederick Douglass, May 29, 1860

Chicago May 21/60

Dear M^r Douglas

We were not surprised at receiving a letter from you but we were surprised to find you at home in Rochester. We are glad that you are home with your dear family and sorry that we have to feel somewhat anxious with regard to your safety at home. We read in one of our daily papers only a short time before your return that you were making preparations to visit France. We are sorry that things of so sad a nature has forbid your making the trip. We deeply sympathize with your self and family in your late afflictions. We felt that the blow would fall heavily upon you in a foreign and. Tis the Lord only that can soften such afflictions and to him we must go with our burdens.

Since M^r Jones received your letter his buisness has been of such a pressing nature that he excuses himself for not writing to you just at this time and he thinks that you will do the same. He told me this morning that I must write to Douglass for he had not the time to write such a letter as he would like too but will do so before long. Friend H O Wagoner is trying to sell out his Homing Machine to go to Pikes Peak. H. Ford Douglass left here last week for Boston We understand that he has been imployed by the Garisonians prehaps you seen him on his way Brother Richardson is in Pikes Peak since last Febuary he expects to return home in 1843.

the fall and send his sons out. he has opened his business there and is doing well. I seen your friend Octavia Webster two weeks ago. She asked me when I heard from Frederick the Doctor looks as if he lays himself over to the left as much as ever perhaps he will become more erect now some relative of hers died down East last Winter and left him some money which he is investing in a farm out west of this sometimes money has a good influence and then again it busts Remember us kindly to your dear family. Daughter is well and wishes not to be forgoten Since I wrote the above M^r Jones had come in to dinner and says to put in this slip of paper cut from the Chicago Daily Democrat and it will save him the trouble of describing his builing to you that he has lately erected and is now is now doing business in the same

Yours as ever

Mary Jones