RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

John Brown letter (RLC.Ms.550)

Redwood Library and Athenaeum

50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: (401) 847-0292
Fax: (401) 841-5680
email: redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Scope & content

This collection consists of a facsimile letter of John Brown to his cousin, Reverend Luther Humphrey in Charlestown, Virginia, on November 19, 1859, in which he reflects upon his imprisonment and upcoming death sentence as a result of his raid on Harper’s Ferry. A typewritten transcription is also included.