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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 5 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
persuade men in Boston to furnish the money. November 22, Le Barnes, another sympathizer in this wild project, wrote to give the price of tugs, and November 27, he wrote from New York, The men are ready and determined. . .. They are confident, strange as it may seem to us, of success, but they want money. . . . It is for you in Boston to say go or stay. But owing to the impossibility of raising funds the plan was abandoned. John Brown wrote a letter of farewell to Mr. Higginson, November 22, 1859, expressing deep gratitude for his visit to North Elba, thanking him for sending his family money and newspapers, especially the latter, and adding, Truly you have proved yourself to be a friend in need. After Brown's execution a project was formed by the most daring of his friends to rescue the two members of his party—Stevens and Hazlett—who still awaited trial. While this scheme was maturing, the journalist, James Redpath, wrote to Higginson that he had reason to believe the cle