- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Legate, James F., American, 1829 - 1902
- Subject of
- Hoyt, David, American, 1821 - 1856
- Date
- September 11, 1856
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (20 x 13 cm)
- Caption
- A handwritten letter offering the condolences of abolitionist James F. Legate to the parents of David Starr Hoyt after Hoyt's murder by pro-slavery forces near Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1856.
- Description
- A letter, handwritten in black ink on white paper, offering the condolences of James F. Legate to the parents of David Hoyt on the occasion of Hoyt's death. The letter is written in brown ink on a single sheet of white paper, folded to make four pages. The correspondence begins on the first page with [Leominster Sept 13/56 / Dear Sir] and concludes on the third page with [Ever wishing to be remem- / bered kindly as his friend most sincerely / I am Yours / James F. Legate].
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcription Available
- Place depicted
- Douglas County, Kansas, United States, North and Central America
- Place made
- Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Documents and Manuscripts
- Movement
- Anti-slavery movements
- Type
- letters (correspondence)
- Topic
- American West
- Antislavery
- Correspondence
- Slavery
- U.S. History, 1815-1861
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.23.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




