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    <mods:title>Thomas Wentworth Higginson autograph letter to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 17 November [1859]</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Higginson, Thomas Wentworth</mods:namePart>
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  <mods:abstract>Laments their lack of honor. Thinks the meanest thief would be ashamed to lie in such circumstances. Draft. Refers to the card issued by Samuel Gridley Howe on November 14, 1859, denying all knowledge of John Brown. Mounted with a letter addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, November 19, 1859. Quoted in O. G. Villard, John Brown, p. 533.</mods:abstract>
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      <mods:title>John Brown: Correspondence relating to John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia</mods:title>
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