Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa, Oct. 5, 1857.
E. B. Whitman, Esq.
Dear Sir, —
Please send me by Mr. Charles P. Tidd what money you have for me, — not papers.
He is the second man I have sent in order to get the means of taking me
through. General Lane sent a man who got here without any team, with but
fifty dollars of Lane's money (as he said), which I returned to him, and wanted
me to start right off, with only four days’ time to load up and drive through
before this bogus election day, — which my state of health and the very wet
weather rendered it impossible to do in time; and I did not think it right to
start from here under such circumstances. Do try to make me up the money, all
in good shape, before Mr. Tidd returns, and also write me everything you know
about the aspect of things in Kansas. Please furnish Mr. Tidd with a horse to
take him to Osawatomie, and greatly oblige me. The fifty dollars Lane sent was
only about enough to pay up my board bill here, with all I had on hand. I need not say my disappointments
have been extreme.
Your friend,
John Brown.
P. S. Before any teams are now sent, I want to hear
further from Kansas.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 402-3
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