The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...

Ellen Emerson sends me her fair copy of the Martyr Service. At 2 P. M. we meet at the Town Hall, our own townspeople present mostly, and ma...

Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have...

Dine with Sanborn. He suggests that I should go to Virginia and get access to Brown if I can, and Governor Wise; thinks I have some advanta...

Thoreau calls and reports about the reading of his lecture on Brown at Boston and Worcester. Thoreau has good right to speak fully his mind...

Concord, Sunday, Oct. 30, 1859. Thoreau reads a paper of his on John Brown, his virtues, spirit, and deeds, at the vestry this evening,...

Read with sympathy and a sense of the impossibility of any justice being done him by South or North, by partisans or people, — by the gene...

Concord, May 8, 1859. This evening I hear Captain Brown speak at the town hall on Kansas affairs, and the part taken by him in the late...

Concord, April 10,1861. Friend Pillsbury , — I am sorry to say that I have not a copy of “Walden” which I can spare; and know of none,...