From the Archives: Diaries and Journals:
Franklin Miller Diary

Sunday, June 18, 1854

…Uncle and Aunt Miles, Frederick Douglass and Dr. Thorne were here to tea.  Douglass is stern and eloquent on the stand, and gentle, sociable and altogether agreeable at the fireside.  It is but sixteen years since he was a hunted fugitive from a southern plantation.

Franklin Miller, a resident of Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania

Source:  Franklin Miller Diaries.  Warren County Historical Society.

Franklin Miller Diary,
June 18, 1854