Governor Wise — I and thousands of others feel a natural impulse of sympathy for the brave and suffering man. He needs a mother or sister to dress his wounds and speak soothingly to him. Will you allow me to perform that mission of humanity?
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"But I and thousands of others feel a natural impulse of sympathy for the brave and suffering man. [...] He needs a mother or sister to dress his wounds, and speak soothingly to him. Will you allow me to perform that mission of humanity?"
Child wrote asking leave to nurse the wounded Brown in his Charlestown jail; the published exchange with Wise and Mrs. Mason sold some 300,000 copies as a pamphlet. Fragments from the same letter joined with [...].