BIB_ID
292523
Accession number
MA 884.4
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 24.5 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.
Provenance
Franklin B. Sanborn; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Boston dealer C. E. Goodspeed, 1909.
Summary
The text of Thoreau's speech at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.
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