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Box [x]: Thoreau: Writings: John Brown

Albrecht, Robert C. "Thoreau and His Audience: 'A Plea for Captain John Brown'" [American Literature, January 1961]

Carson, Herbert L. "An Eccentric Kinship: Henry David Thoreau's 'A Plea for Captain John Brown'" [Southern Speech Journal, Winter 1961]

Doudna, Martin "Thoreau and the 'Eminent Scamp'" [typescript for TSB 147]

Glick, Wendell "Thoreau Rejects and Emerson Text" [Studies in Bibliography, 1972]

Goodwin, James "Thoreau and John Browne: Transcendental Politics" [ESQ 1979]

Harper's Ferry National Historic Park [two brochures]

Keyes, John Shepard "John Shepard Keye's Unpublished Account of the Exercises in Memory of John Brown, Concord, Massachusetts, December 2, 1859" [typescript transcription for TSB 143]

Lane, Lauriat, Jr. "Thoreau's Autumnal, Archetypal Hero: Captain John Brown" [Ariel, January 1975]

Ljungquist, Kent "'Meteor of the War': Melville, Thoreau and Whitman Respond to John Brown" [American Literature, December 1989]

McDonald, John J. "Emerson and John Brown" [The New England Quarterly, 1971]

Meyer, Michael;

  • "Discord in Concord on the Day of John Brown's Hanging" [typescript for TSB 146]
  • "A New Perspective on Thoreau's Response to John Brown and Slavery" [typescript, 1978]
  • "Thoreau and Black Emigration" [Draft typescript and American Literature, November 1981]
  • "Thoreau's Rescue of John Brown from History" [typescript, from MLA 1978 Special Session: Rivalry and Symbiosis, Lecture and Politics in America, 1828-1861]

Miscellaneous  

Mitchell, Betty L. "Massachusetts Reacts to John Brown's Raid" [Civil War History, March 1973)

Mott, Wesley T. "John Brown in Concord" [New-England Galaxy, summer 1977]

Nelson, Truman "Thoreau and the Paralysis of Individualism" [typescript  and Ramparts, March 1966]

Ostrander, Gilman M. "Emerson, Thoreaus and John Brown" [The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, March 1953]

Sanborn, Franklin B.:

  • "John Brown's Burial Service" [Middlesex Patriot, 22 December 1899]
  • Sanborn, F.B to Theodore Parker, 14 November 1959 [transcription from ALS in Concord Free Public Library]
  • Sanborn, F.B to James Redpath, 9 December 1959 [transcription from ALS in Morgan Library]

Stevenson, James "Romantic Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln" [Lincoln Herald, Fall 1988]

Thoreau, Henry David:

  • "Last Days of John Brown" Portuguese translation: "Os Ultimos Dias de John Brown"
  • "A Plea for Captain John Brown"  [Peace and Freedom Party pamphlet, 1970]
  • "A Plea for Captain John Brown"  Japanese translation [Bulletin of the Minami Kyushu Junior College, November 1965]

Warner, Esther The Crossing Fee: A Story of Life in Liberia [photocopied excerpts (Houghton Mifflin, 1968)]

 

 


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