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BROWN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed in full to his wife, Mary Ann Day Brown, Brown's Station, Kansas Territory, 24 April 1856. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, on lined paper. Fine condition. "WE EXPECTED A MOST BLOODY AFFAIR" "...I have felt very uncomfortable about you all since I learned that you were becoming so destitute but I trust you have all been made a little more comfortable by this time; as I can hardly doubt but the two small Drafts have reached you. We are all stout but Jason & Fredk. [two of the Brown sons], and they do considerable. Your brother Orson Day & family reached here yesterday all well after a passage of two weeks from Pa. They seem highly pleased with their new home.... "Yesterday terminated one of the most deeply exciting times we have had since our arival [ sic ] in the [Kansas] territory. A United States Judge came here & attempted to hold a Court, & to enforce the enactments of the Bogus [Territorial] Legislature but was most effectively routed. Suffice it to say now that we expected a most bloody affair, but the Court & the pro slavery men entirely & completely backed out; & broke up on the morning of the 3rd day without doing any thing....I now enclose a New York Draft for $50...How soon I can send you any more I cannot now tell; as we are here middling hand up as people say....We can hardly tell where we shall be after a little. At any rate keep writing until you are directed to send somewhere else. May God Almighty bless & save you all..." Sold with an autograph letter signed of John Brown Jr. to F.B. Sanborn (editor of Life and Letters of John Brown , 1885), Put-in Bay, 18 March 1885, 2 pages, 8vo, urging Sanborn to omit some of his father's letters from the book since they are petty and use "old forms of expression"; asking "would it not be better to leave many of these to the kindly keeping of his family for whom they were written, rather than to an unappreciative public for which they were not?"