Charlestown, Jefferson County, Va., Nov. 29, 1859.
Mrs. George L. Stearns,
Boston, Mass.
My Dear Friend,
— No letter I have received since my imprisonment here has given me more
satisfaction or comfort than yours of the 8th instant. I am quite cheerful, and
was never more happy. Have only time to write a word. May God forever reward
you and all yours! My love to all who love their neighbors. I have asked to be
spared from having any weak or hypocritical prayers made over me when I am
publicly murdered, and that my only religious attendants be poor little dirty, ragged, bareheaded, and
barefooted slave boys and girls, led by some old gray-headed slave mother.
Farewell! Farewell!
Your friend,
John Brown.
SOURCES: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters
of John Brown, p. 610-1
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