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Speech at Brown relief meeting : autograph manuscript : Salem, 1860 Jan. 6.

BIB_ID
292593
Accession number
MA 884.12
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
1860 Jan. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (19 p.) ; 24.6 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 a speech Emerson gave at a meeting held in Salem on Jan 6., 1860 for the relief of the family of the abolitionist John Brown.