Selection from the Wisdom of Solomon read at the John Brown memorial meeting : manuscript copy in three hands : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

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Selection from the Wisdom of Solomon read at the John Brown memorial meeting : manuscript copy in three hands : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

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.

1 item (25 p.) ; 20.4 cm.

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