Bust of Douglass placed in Sibley Hall, of Rochester University. Spoke against the proposed negro exodus from the South.
1881
Appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.
1882
January. Published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, the third and last of his autobiographies. August 4. Mrs. Frederick Douglass died.
1884
February 6. Attended funeral of Wendell Phillips. February 9. Attended memorial meeting and delivered eulogy on Phillips. Married Miss Helen Pitts.
1886
May 20. Lectured on John Brown at Music Hall, Boston.
September 11. Attended a dinner given in his honor by the Wendell Phillips Club, Boston.