BIB_ID
292490
Accession number
MA 884.2
Creator
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Display Date
undated [original letter dated 1859 Dec. 9].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.5 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.
Sanborn also includes a paragraph of typed commentary about the letter.
Sanborn has written "Copy" at the top of the page, added the name of a hymn, made minor textual corrections in black ink, and signed the document with his initials.
Sanborn also includes a paragraph of typed commentary about the letter.
Sanborn has written "Copy" at the top of the page, added the name of a hymn, made minor textual corrections in black ink, and signed the document with his initials.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Boston dealer Goodspeed, 1909.
Summary
Sending Redpath the rest of the papers read at a meeting for John Brown; asking Redpath to let him correct the proofs; giving the order in which the papers should appear; providing details about the readers of the different speeches. The paragraph after the letter discusses Redpath's Echoes from Harper's Ferry (1860) and later reprintings of the speeches. Sanborn also explains that he has had the manuscript of Henry David Thoreau's Remarks in his possession.
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