[Extracts from letters by John Brown]
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: These transcribed letters were written by John Brown of Osawatomie to his wife and family, from 1829-1859. Annotations by May are on pages 1, 15, and 18. The first annotation relates to the spelling in the letters, the second to Kansas border troubles, and the third to a company of slaves that Brown helped to escape from Missouri to Canada. The letters are devoted almost entirely to personal affairs and agricultural conditions.
Notes: Holograph.

Title supplied by cataloger.

These extracts are copies in the hand of Samuel May of Brown's original correspondence.