 During the month before his execution, Brown was allowed to send and receive correspondence, and he wrote many letters.One of the letters was from Mahala Doyle, wife and mother of three of Brown's Kansas victims.She wrote "Altho' vengeance is not mine, I confess that I do feel gratified to hear that you were stopped in your fiendish career at Harper's Ferry ..." In a postscript she added "My son John Doyle whose life I beg[g]ed of you is now grown up and is very desirous to be in Charlestown on the day of your execution."