Letter to [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], 1884 January 5.

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Letter to [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], 1884 January 5.

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John Brown, Jr., Put-in-Bay Island Lake Erie Ohio, writes to "My dear friends" [most probably Sanborn] concerning the controversy in Kansas newspapers over governor Charles Robinson's complicity in the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek murders. Brown quotes a letter from Robinson in his possession to establish that the governor first proposed the raid to John Brown, Sr. He desires [Sanborn?], in his forthcoming book, to clear his father of the charges that he lied about Pottawatomie. People mentioned include George W. Brown, John J. Ingalls, and Eli Thayer.

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