Charlestown Prison, Jefferson County, Va.,
Dec. 1, 1859.
To Mr. James Foreman.1
My Dear Friend,
— I have only time to say I got your kind letter of the 26th of November this
evening. Am very grateful for all the good feelings expressed by yourself and
wife. May God abundantly bless and save yon all! I am very cheerful, in hopes
of entering on a better state of existence in a few hours, through infinite
grace in Christ Jesus my Lord. Remember “the poor that cry,” and “them that are
in bonds as bound with them.”
Your friend as ever,
John Brown.
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1 A former apprentice when Brown was a tanner in
Pennsylvania.
SOURCES: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters
of John Brown, p. 615
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