Selection from the Dialogues of Plato read at the John Brown memorial meeting : autograph manuscript : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

Alcott's excerpt from Plato was supposed to be read at the memorial meeting for the abolitionist John Brown in Concord, Mass., but according to a note by Thoreau (see MA 884.7) Alcott's part was skipped "for want of time." However his reading from Plato was included in the published version of the service in James Redpath's Echoes of Harper's Ferry.
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 manuscript is unsigned but is likely in the hand of Amos Bronson Alcott.
The translation of Plato may be Henry Cary's.
With a quotation from Plato on p. 1: "The upright man is a perpetual magistrate."