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Chapter 7: My Invisibles
“Good morning, gentlemen”: This and other Unseld quotes are from his testimony, Mason Report, A001–A012.
 
“Nothing going on”: Jeremiah Anderson to “Dear Brother,” July 5, 1859, KSHS.
 
“John Henrie Esquire”: John Brown to John Kagi, July 27, Aug. 10, and Sept. 10, 1859, HSP.
 
“had far more”: Franklin Keagy to Richard Hinton, March 27, 1893, KSHS. See also Franklin Keagy to Franklin Sanborn, March 24, 1891, BSC.
 
“Tomorrow”: Cook to “Iowa Family,” July 3, 1859, KSHS.
 
“as a good time”: Franklin Sanborn,
The Life and Letters,
468.
 
“have the freight”:
Calendar of Virginia State Papers
, 330.
 
“almost disqualified”: John Brown, Jr., to John Brown, May 1, 1858, in Villard,
John Brown,
406.
 
“Please say to Mr.”: “John Smith” to “J. Henrie Esq.,” July 23, 1859, HSP.
 
“hands”: John Brown to “John Henrie Esquire,” undated, HSP, and to “Dear friends all,” Aug. 6, 1859, HSP.
 
“Hardware”: John Brown, Jr., to John Kagi, July 23, 1859, HSP.
 
“mining” and “I had supposed”: John Brown, Jr., to “Friend Henrie,” Sept. 8, 1859, HSP.
 
“I expected”: Luke Parsons to John Kagi, May 16, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers
, 301.
 
“Don’t you do it”: interview with Luke Parsons, OGV.
 
“I find it”: John Brown to Mary Brown, July 5, 1859, in Oswald Villard,
John Brown
, 404–5.
 
“Mother
would not go”
: Statement of Annie Brown Adams, written for Franklin Sanborn, Nov. 1886, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“in the enjoyment”: ibid.
 
“Sometimes in the night”: “Kennedy Farm Notes,” OGV.
 
“I always blush”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“the outlaw girl”: ibid.
 
“had a good excuse”: ibid.
 
“plague and torment”: ibid.
 
“earnest, kind-looking”: Annie Brown Adams to Garibaldi Ross, Dec. 15, 1887, Gilder Lehrman Collection.
 
“After bidding”: Thomas Featherstonhaugh,
John Brown’s Men
(Harpers Ferry, W.Va.: Harrisburg, 1899), 13.
 
“a sort”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“much more”: Annie Brown Adams to Richard Hinton, May 23, 1893, KSHS.
 
“i Received”: Albert Hazlett to “Dear Sir,” July 14, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers,
308.
 
“that he had nearly”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“chronic roamer”: interview with Charles Whipple, OGV.
 
“no place for a young man”: Stevens to “Dear Sister,” June 30, 1853. He writes of baked beans and apple pie in a letter to his sister, Jan. 25, 1855. Both are in Gilder Lehrman Collection.
 
“drunken riot”: Court Martial Case Files, May 21, 1855, War Department Office of the Judge Advocate General, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
 
“The grate battle is begun”: Stevens to “Dear Brother,” Oct. 3, 1857, Gilder Lehrman Collection.
 
“the finest specimen”: S. K. Donovan, “A Pennsylvania Man’s Recollections of Stevens,” OGV. Donovan was a reporter for the
Baltimore Exchange
and one of the first correspondents on the scene after the raid on Harpers Ferry.
 
“Jenny”: Aaron Stevens to Jennie Dunbar, Sept. 1, 1859, KSHS.
 
“We are rather”: ibid.
 
“furniture” and “very particular”: Villard,
John Brown,
419.
 
“skulk into the kitchen”: ibid., 418.
 
“my invisibles”: Annie Brown Adams to Alexander Ross, undated, Gilder Lehrman Collection. At other times she capitalized “Invisibles”; see, e.g., Franklin Sanborn,
Recollections of Seventy Years,
172.
 
“Press nobly on”: captured letter published in the
Charleston Mercury,
Oct. 26, 1859.
 
“all no where”: unsigned letter to “friend Ed,” Aug. 6, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers
, 300.
 
“I suppose”: William Leeman to family, Aug. 14, 1859, KSHS.
 
“a Secret Asosiation”: William Leeman to “Dear Mother,” Oct. 2, 1859, KSHS.
 
“I do hope”: John Brown to John Kagi, Aug. 11, 1859, HSP.
 
“I have discovered”: testimony of John Floyd, Mason Report, A250–52.
 
“Besides”: ibid. For an account from the perspective of the Quakers who warned Floyd, see B. F. Gue, “John Brown and His Iowa Friends,”
The Midland Monthly
(Des Moines, Iowa), Feb. 1897, copy in BSC.
 
“I begin”: John Brown to John Brown, Jr., Aug. 1859, in Sanborn,
The Life and Letters,
535–36.
 
“They were all”: John Brown, Jr., to “Friend Henrie,” Aug. 17, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers,
325.
 
“too fat”: John Brown, Jr., to “Friend J.H.,” Aug. 7, 1859, HSP.
 
“associations”: John Brown, Jr., to “Friend Henrie,” Aug. 27, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers
, 315.
 
“I spent”: ibid., 317.
 
“If friend”: ibid.
 
“Northern tour”: John Brown, Jr., to “Friend J.H.,” Aug. 7, 1859, HSP.
 
“It is my chief”: Steward Taylor to “Dear Friend,” July 3, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers,
301.
 
“seem a slave stampede”: Hinton,
John Brown and His Men,
673.
 
“It seemed to be”: Annie Brown Adams to Richard Hinton, June 7, 1894, KSHS.
 
“all of our men”: Sanborn,
Recollections,
182–83.
 
“It nearly broke”: “Conversation with———,” Feb. 10, 1860, BPL. Higginson later disclosed that this conversation was with Charles Tidd.
 
“
Dear Sir”
: Note of Owen Brown, HSP.
 
“Give a slave”: Hinton Notes, Houghton Library.
 
“There was no”: Anderson, “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry,” 23.
 
“they were only”: George Gill to Richard Hinton, undated manuscript, 44, KSHS. African Mysteries was also known as the Order of the Men of Oppression.
 
“He thought”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“His face wore”: For Douglass’s account of the meeting at the quarry, see his
Autobiographies,
758–60.
 
“wen”: Annie Brown Adams, quoted in Sanborn,
Recollections,
174.
 
“buy her off”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“they were some friends”: ibid.
 
“used her power”: ibid.
 
“taking the dishes”: ibid.
 
“When there was”: Villard,
John Brown,
420.
 
“He was impatient”: Annie Brown Adams, quoted in Sanborn,
Recollections,
179. For more on Newby, see the remarkable study by Philip Schwarz,
Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
(University Press of Virginia, 2001), 149–68. Schwarz has tracked down every available document to reconstruct Newby’s story.
 
“Oh, Dear”: Harriett Newby to Dangerfield Newby, April 11, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers,
310.
 
“commenced to
Crall”
: Harriett Newby to Dangerfield Newby, April 22, 1859, ibid, 311.
 
“Dear Dangerfield”: ibid, 310–11.
 
“I want you”: Harriett Newby to Dangerfield Newby, Aug. 16, 1859, ibid., 311.
 
“Post of Duty”: Aaron Stevens to “Jenny,” Oct. 7, 1859, KSHS.
 
“Parts unknown”: Dauphin Thompson to brothers and sisters, Sept. 4, 1859, Gilder Lehrman Collection.
 
“I think of you all day”: Watson Brown to wife, Sept. 8, 1859, in Sanborn,
The Life and Letters,
542–43.
 
“They nearly all”: Sanborn,
Recollections,
177.
 
“He knew”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“very intimate”: Annie Brown Adams, quoted in Sanborn,
Recollections,
177.
 
“tall,” “fine-looking,” and so forth: Sanborn,
Recollections,
177; Annie Brown Adams to Richard Hinton, May 23, 1893, KSHS; statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society; interview with Annie Brown Adams, OGV.
 
“first lover”: Lou Chapin, “The Last Days of Old John Brown,”
Overland Monthly
, April 1899.
 
“a perfect”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“took a fancy”: undated note and letter from Los Gatos, Dauphin Thompson file, OGV.
 
“I know your sister”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“Mother and Father”: Annie Brown Adams to Richard Hinton, May 23, 1893, KSHS.
 
“mothers, sisters”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“We were”: Anderson, “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry,” 25.
 
“Of course”: statement of Annie Brown Adams, Chicago Historical Society.
 
“Home Again”: Sanborn,
Recollections,
180.
 
“I want you”: John Brown to family, Oct. 1, 1859, BPL.
 
“Sharp’s rifle”: Hugh Forbes,
Extracts from the Manual for the Patriotic Volunteer
(New York: W. H. Tinson, 1857). The story of the Ritner girl peering through the keyhole is told in Virginia Ott Stake,
John Brown in Chambersburg
(Chambersburg: Franklin Co. Heritage, 1977), 31–32.
 
“General Orders”: October 10, 1859,
Calendar of Virginia State Papers
, 274–75.
 
“A Declaration of Liberty”: ibid., 275–79.
 
“just the right time”: This and other quotations of Kagi’s about the timing of the attack are from John Kagi to John Brown, Jr., Oct. 10, 1859, in Villard,
John Brown,
422.
 
“He goes to”: Franklin Sanborn to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oct. 6, 1859, BPL.
 
“half-crazy”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Richard Hinton, March 15, 1895, KSHS.
 
“white men alone”: John Copeland to his brother, Dec. 10, 1859, quoted in Franny Nudelman,
John Brown’s Body
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 68.

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