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Sent in care of Horace Day, Esq., in Centerville, Pennsylvania. Brown mentions the heavy snowfall which had hampered the delivery of the mails. Day, who is coming to Kansas, is given advice on the best conveyance and advised to seek our Charles Adair upon his arrival in Osawatomie. Adair, identified by Brown as a "half Brother-in-law", would treat Day as a friend. Brown further discussed the possible reception of a "Free State man" in Missouri and Kansas.

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Upon his father's direction, John Brown, Jr. wrote to Day at his home in White Hall, N.Y. Brown provides advice on the best conveyance and routes which is in more detail than that given by his father.

Scope and Contents 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...

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A short, affectionate note to Ellen, Brown's five year old daughter, written six weeks before he went to Harper's Ferry.