Autograph note related to the John Brown memorial meeting : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

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Autograph note related to the John Brown memorial meeting : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

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Thoreau records that John S. Keyes read at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859. Below this "The Execution of Montrose" is written lightly in pencil (possibly in Franklin B. Sanborn's hand). Thoreau also notes that the "passages selected by A.B. Alcott" and an "original poem, by a friend of Capt. Brown, were omitted for want of time." Alcott's passages and the poem appear in James Redpath's printed account of the service in Echoes of Harper's Ferry.

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