the Thoreau Log.
30 October 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “The Character and Actions of Capt. John Brown” at the First Parish Meetinghouse.

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Thoreau reads a paper of his on John Brown, his virtues, spirit, and deeds, at the Vestry this evening, and to the delight of his company I am told—the best that could be gathered on short notice, and among them Emerson. I am not informed in season, and have my meeting at the same time. I doubt not of its excellence and eloquence, and wish he may have opportunities of reading it elsewhere.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 320)

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