[July 27, 1859.]
Dear Friend, —
Yours of the 18th has been received and communicated. S. G. Howe has sent you
fifty dollars in a draft on New York, and I am expecting to get more from other
sources (perhaps some here), and will make up to you the three hundred dollars,
if I can, as soon as I can; but I can give nothing myself just now, being
already in debt. I hear with great pleasure what you say of the success of the
business, and hope nothing will occur to thwart it. Your son John was in Boston
a week or two since. I tried to find him, but did not; and being away from
Concord, he did not come to see me. He saw S. G. Howe, George L. Stearns, Wendell
Phillips, Francis Jackson, etc.; and everybody liked him. I am very sorry I
could not see him. All your Boston friends are well. Theodore Parker is in
Switzerland, much better, it is thought, than when he left home. Henry Sterns,
of Springfield, is dead.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 534-5
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