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Ruth Brown Thompson autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, North Elba, Essex Co., N.Y., 17 November [1859]

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Title supplied by cataloger.Date from item or from supporting materials.Ruth B. ThompsonDonated to the Boston Public Library by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1904.Asks him to intercede with the Governor [Henry Alexander Wise] in obtaining her father's body. Adds in a postscript that she fears her request may be too late.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Brown, John 1800 1859
  4. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
  5. History
  6. John Brown's Raid, 1859
  7. Slaver
  8. United States
  9. Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander) 1806 1876

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