John Brown visits Boston.

Brown is seeking financial support to arm and train a band of a hundred volunteers “for war-service against the forces of slavery.” He meets with Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, George Stearns, and Franklin Sanborn at the Kansas Aid Committee office on School Street, visits the recuperating Sen. Charles Sumner, meets Ralph Waldo Emerson, and dines with Henry David Thoreau. He speaks to a number of Boston and Boston area congregations. Brown leaves Boston with $7,000 from George Stearns. He returns to Boston in March 1857.*