Look for letters directed to John Henrie at Chambersburg.
Inquire for letters at Chambersburg for I. Smith & Sons, and write them at
Harper's Ferry as soon as any does come.1 See Mr. Henry Watson at
Chambersburg, and find out if the “Tribune” comes on. Have Mr. Watson and his
reliable friends get ready to receive company. Get Mr. Watson to make you
acquainted with his reliable friends, but do not appear to be any wise thick
with them, and do not often be seen with any such man. Get Mr. Watson, if he
can, to find out a trusty man or men to stop with at Hagerstown (if any such
there be), as Mr. Thomas Henry has gone from there. Write Tidd to come to
Chambersburg, by Pittsburg and Harrisburg, at once. He can stop off the
Pittsburg road at Hudson, and go to Jason's for his trunk. Write Carpenter and
Hazlett that we are all well, right, and ready as soon as we can get our
boarding-house fixed, when we will write them to come on, and by what route. I
will pay Hazlett the money ho advanced to Anderson for expenses travelling.
Find yourself a comfortable, cheap boarding-house at once. Write I. Smith &
Sons, at Harper's Ferry. Inquire after your four Cleveland friends, and have
them come on to Chambersburg if they are on the way; if not on the road, have
them wait till we are better prepared. Be careful what you write to all persons.
Do not send or bring any more persons here until we advise you of our readiness
to board them.
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1 See the Diary for July 12.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 532-3
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