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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05993 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1880s |
| Title | John Brown Jr. to Franklin B. Sanborn, sharing his views on business and religion |
| Date | 24 April 1887 |
| Author | Brown, John Jr. (1821-1895) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Shares some of his views on business and religion, details events relating to his family and discusses his future plans. Does not mind being poor, so long as he can get by. Hopes to take up new work soon. Sends Sanborn a number of letters from other family members. Because his eyesight is so bad, and he is so busy with other work, Brown writes this letter over the course of a number of days, always writing extremely early in the morning. Pages five through nine are missing. The last page is a postscript written in different ink, and also signed. |
| Subjects | Religion Finance John Brown Poverty Health and Medical Children and Family |
| People | Brown, John, Jr. (1821-1895) Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) (1831-1917) Brown, John (1800-1859) |
| Place written | Put-In-Bay, Ohio |
| Theme | Religion; Children & Family; Banking & Economics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Franklin Sanborn was a member of the Secret Six, the group that aided John Brown. He was a schoolmaster and friend to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Letter incomplete. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |