Osawatomie, K. T., June 22, 1855.
Dear Father, —
We received your letter from Rockford, Ill., this week, and are very glad that
you are going to get through there soon, and that you are going to be here
before fall. In answer to your questions about what you will need for your
company, 1 would say that I have one acre of corn that looks very well, and
some beans and squashes and turnips. You will want to get some pork and meal,
and beans enough to last till the crop comes in, and then I think we will have
enough grain to last through the winter. I will have a house up by the time
that you will get here. My boots are very near worn out, and I shall need some
summer pants and a hat. I bought an axe, and that you will not have to get. There
are slaves owned within three miles of us.
Your affectionate
son,
Salmon Brown.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 198
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