BIB_ID
292487
Accession number
MA 884.1
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1859 Nov. 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (25 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph speeches delivered at the John Brown Relief and Memorial Meetings held in Massachusetts in 1859-60. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 884 for more information.
The first ca. 2 p. of the speech are not included in this collection. This manuscript starts with "Captain John Brown is a farmer...."
The first ca. 2 p. of the speech are not included in this collection. This manuscript starts with "Captain John Brown is a farmer...."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
The text of a speech Emerson gave at a meeting held at Tremont Temple in Boston for the relief of the family of the abolitionist John Brown.
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