May 5, 1858
It looks as if the project must, for the present, be
deferred, for I find by reading Forbes's epistles to the doctor that he knows
the details of the plan, and even knows (what very few do) that the doctor, Mr.
Stearns, and myself are informed of it. How he got this knowledge is a mystery.
He demands that Hawkins be dismissed as agent, and himself or some other
be put in his place, threatening otherwise to make the business public.
Theodore Parker and G. L. Stearns think the plan must be deferred till another
year; the doctor does not think so, and I am in doubt, inclining to the opinion
of the two former.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 458
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