A collection of poems and correspondence related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The autograph poems by Emerson include: "Fate," "To Rhea," "The Visit," "Astraea," "Berrying," "Merlin," and "Uriel." The poems are written on the same type of paper which was removed from an album. The correspondence includes letters written by Emerson and letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, John Sullivan Dwight, Edward Waldo Emerson, Frederic Rowland Marvin, Henry David Thoreau, and Edwin Percy Whipple.
provenance unknown. In library as of, rare book 49172. 1954.
removed from rare book 35203, July 1973.
removed from 1980.
provenance unknown. In library as of,
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A collection of poems and correspondence related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The autograph poems by Emerson include: "Fate," "To Rhea," "The Visit," "Astraea," "Berrying," "Merlin," and "Uriel." The poems are written on the same type of paper which was removed from an album. The correspondence includes letters written by Emerson and letters addressed to him. Correspondents include Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, John Sullivan Dwight, Edward Waldo Emerson, Frederic Rowland Marvin, Henry David Thoreau, and Edwin Percy Whipple.
Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, and photographs of the Ward and Thoreau families. The correspondence consists of letters to Prudence Ward from Sophia, Maria, and Helen Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's letters to Anne J. Ward (1905, some with enclosed manuscripts). Also included are individual letters by Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Edmund Quincy Sewall, and George Washington Ward. The letters discuss the Alcott family, Mary Merrick Brooks, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and the Thoreau family; American Antislavery Society, Cherokee Nation, Southworth & Hawes daguerreotypes, family affairs, social news, etc.
