BIBLIOGRAPHY
For the general reader the following works are indispensable:
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin. The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia. 1885. (The most complete collection of John Brown letters.)
Hinton, Richard Josiah. John Brown and His Men, with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. 1894. (Valuable for its treatment of Kansas and its lives of Brown's companions.)
Redpath, James. Public Life of Captain John Brown, with autobiography of his childhood and youth. (The best contemporary account.)
Connelley, William Elsey. John Brown. 1900. (Valuable for Kansas life of Brown.)
To the above may be added the shorter estimate by H. E. von Holst, 1899, and some may like Chamberlain's pert essay (Beacon Biographies, 1889).
Students must add to these the following books and articles which contain many of the original sources of our knowledge:
Anderson, Osborne P. A Voice from Harper's Ferry. A narrative of events at Harper's Ferry; with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by John Brown and his men. 1861. (The best account of the raid by a participant.)
Manuscript Diary of John Brown in the Boston Public Library. (2 volumes.) 1838–1844, 1855–1859.
Garrison, Wendell Phillips. The Preludes of Harper's Ferry. In the Andover Review, December, 1890, and January, 1891.
