BIB_ID
292589
Accession number
MA 884.10
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (25 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
At the top of p. 1 in Thoreau's hand: "Services for the death of a martyr read by A. B. Alcott."
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
A copy of chapters from the Wisdom of Solomon transcribed by Henry D. Thoreau, Ellen Emerson (?), and Amos Bronson Alcott (?). The passage was read at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.
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