[JOHN BROWN'S RAID] 36th Congress, 2st Session. Rep Com. No. 278. In the Senate of the United States. June 15, 1860.--Ordered to be printed [.] Mr. Mason submitted the following Report. The Select Committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Herper's Ferry, beg leave to sumbit their report [caption title]

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Octavo, 255pp., plus Index to Testimony at rear. A very good copy in the publisher's brown blind-tooled cloth, with gilt spine, which reads "Harper's Ferry Invasion." Mild wear to extremities, and very light foxing, but a sound, clean copy. A notable association copy, bearing this pencil inscription on the front free endpaper: "Saml. Hanson, Jnr. 1861 Jan 18/61 from Jefferson Davis, Esq. Senator from Mississippi." Though someone has pencilled the word "autograph" above the inscription, the inscription is clearly in Hanson's hand, and cerrtainly does not contain Davis's autograph. Nevertheless it appears that this copy of Virginia Senator James Murray Mason's report on the Harper's Ferry raid was given from Davis to Hanson, and at a very busy moment in Davis's career. On January 6, 1861, Mississippi had seceded from the Union. Davis remained in his senate seat until the 21st, when he received official notification of secession. Thus, on the day he gave the book to Hanson, he was just three days away from resignigng his seat. We have not been able to identify Hanson. John Brown's brazen and heroic raid on Harper's Ferry was viewed by southerners as a serious provocation, and no doubt Davis's firm pro-slavery views would have informed his reading of this text, drifting him further and further towards secession. The bookplate of esteemed book collector Philip Greely Brown is affixed to the front paste-down. N° de ref. del artículo 11756

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