Minnesota, South Dakota, diary 3 | Minnesota, South Dakota, diary 4, 1886

File — Box: 4, Volume: 3-4

Identifier: II

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Scope and Contents

Douglass taught school in Minnesota and went to live with his sister Ida Battin on her homestead in Iroquois, South Dakota. He worked on farms until winter, and secured a job teaching in South Dakota until the spring of 1887.

28 October--"This day I was 24 ys old. Oh I wish! How I do wish it were not so. It makes my heart ache when I think of it. What has been my life and where is it gone .... Where is that nobility and greatness I have been dreaming of .... Where are the wonderful things I was going to do? All undone. Alas is not life only dreaming and death waking up."

Dates

1886

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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