Hudson, Ohio, May 27, 1857.
Dear Wife And
Children, Every One,
. . . I have got Salmon's letter of the 19th instant, and am
much obliged for it. There is some prospect that Owen will go on with me. If I
should never return, it is my particular request that no other monument be used
to keep me in remembrance than the same plain one that records the death of my
grandfather and son; and that a short story, like those already on it, be told
of John Brown the fifth, under that of grandfather. I think I have several good
reasons for this. I would be glad that my posterity should not only remember their
parentage, but also the cause they labored in. I do not expect to leave these
parts under four or five days, and will try to write again before I go off. I
am much confused in mind, and cannot remember what I wish to write. May God abundantly
bless you all! . . .
Your affectionate
husband and father,
JOHN BROWN.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 410-1
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