Theodore Tilton to Frederick Douglass, October 22, 1862

The Independent,

Oct. 22nd, 1862.

Frederick Douglass, Esq.

My dear friend,

I thank you for your prompt response. I will read your letter to my young friend whom it concerns. I grow angry at the very thought of the indignity

which an educated colored man finds everywhere offered him by literary and scientific institutions. But there is a better day coming!

The article called Consent was by the Lion himself, or, as we call him in the office, the Bishop; of course, H.W.A. By the way, I dropped into my note an uncorrected proof of a little hymn: I am mortified at sending you the wrong one: I enclose the right one. The best that I do is far enough.

I am mortified, also, at forgetting to pay a past debt, which I hereby settle in the shape of X bill. I am ready to send you another for

another article, at any time.

Don't let me go without the reading of your paper. I have not seen it since I saw you in Rochester.

I am going next week to Music Hall, Boston, to tremble in ignorance before an audience of wise men.

Yours heartily and hastily,

Theodore Tilton