BIB_ID
292572
Accession number
MA 884.7
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 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
Thoreau records that John S. Keyes read at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859. Below this "The Execution of Montrose" is written lightly in pencil (possibly in Franklin B. Sanborn's hand). Thoreau also notes that the "passages selected by A. B. Alcott" and an "original poem, by a friend of Capt. Brown, were omitted for want of time." Alcott's passages and the poem appear in James Redpath's printed account of the service in Echoes of Harper's Ferry.
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