... a correct statement of facts) becomes an authority of historical interest to the biographer of John Brown: . . . I did not see him again until the fall of 1857, when I met him at the house of E. B. Whitman , about four miles from Lawrence, K. T., which, I think, was about the 1st of November following. I was told that he intended to organize a company for the purpose of putting a stop to the aggressio...