Relates arrival of "the company" in Nebraska and the direction of "long looked for L[awrence] emigrants" into Kansas. Brown asks that apologies be made to [Orson] Day explaining that Day and his wife must have known that Brown came to Kansas on a "particular business," which took precedence over everything else. This letter written after the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Battle of Black Jack illustrated Brown's singled minded focus on destroying slavery and his increasing militancy.