BIB_ID
292586
Accession number
MA 884.9
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (26 p.) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Includes a title page in Henry D. Thoreau's autograph and one in either Emerson or Franklin B. Sanborn's autograph. The second title page has notes in Sanborn's hand on the verso.
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.
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
Including: a brief statement about John Brown in Emerson's hand; a transcript in what is probably Ellen Emerson's hand of John Brown's statements while being questioned by James Murray Mason; "Cook's confession" in Emerson's hand; and copies of Brown's last letters transcribed by Emerson and his daughter Ellen. Emerson read these transcripts at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.
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