John Brown to Thomas H. Webb, November 30, 1859

Charlestown, Va., Nov. 30, 1859.

Dr. Thos. H. Webb, Boston.¹

Mv Dear Sir, — I would most gladly comply with your request most kindly made in your letter of the 26th inst., but it came too late. It is out of my power. Farewell: God bless you!

Your friend,

John Brown.

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¹ This note refers to the publication of a photograph of Brown, for the benefit of his family, — the same mentioned in the Utter to T. Hyatt.

SOURCES: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 612

John C. Palmer to Thomas H. Webb, May 8, 1855

Sharpe's Rifle Manufacturing Co.,

Hartford, May 7, 1855.

Dear Sir, — Annexed find invoice of one hundred carbines, ammunition, etc., delivered Mr. Deitzler this morning. For balance of account, I have ordered on Messrs. Lee, Higginson, & Co., at thirty days from this date, for $2,155.65, as directed by you. We shall be pleased to receive further orders from you, and will put up arms at our lowest cash prices to the trade, with interest added for time. The sample carbine for your use shall go forward immediately. Our negotiations with you I trust will be entirely confidential, as the trade in Boston and elsewhere might take offence if they understood that we had made you better terms than we grant to others.

Your obedient servant,

J. C. Palmer, Pres.

Thos. H. Webb, Esq.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 216