In Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (#XXXX-0700R/VF Lit)
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American teacher, author, editor, and activist. He helped pioneer Alcott's new teaching methods, and taught the first course in social sciences at Cornell. Although his scholarship was shoddy and transcriptions imprecise, his biographies helped popularize such authors as Henry David Thoreau, on the strength of his first-hand knowledge. He was one of John Brown's "Secret Six" and knew about the Harper's Ferry raid; he fled to Canada, but was later cleared by Congress and returned to Massachusetts.
Binding notes
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