Visits Easton Publishes third autobiography Anna, his wife of nearly forty-four years, dies. Marries Helen Pitts (1 Jan 1878 Jahr – 1 Jan 1884 Jahr)

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1878 Purchases "Cedar Hill", fifteen-acre estate in Anacostia, D. C.

November 23-26, 1878 - Visits Easton; there delivers lecture at courthouse; locates site of his birth on Tuckahoe Creek. Stays in the Brick Hotel.

June, 1879 - Bust of Douglass presented to city of Rochester.

January, 1881 - Publishes third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

March, 1881 - Appointed Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia by President Garfield.

June 12, 1881 - Revisits Lloyd Plantation, called Wye House in Wye Mills, Maryland.

August 4, 1882 - Anna, his wife of nearly forty-four years, dies.

January, 1884 - Marries Helen Pitts, his former secretary.

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