BIB_ID
126809
Accession number
MA 687.7
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
1848 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of two autograph manuscripts, two autograph poems, and five autograph letters. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 687.1-9).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Explaining that he has not written because he has been so busy; mentioning that he just returned from Stonehenge and is leaving for Liverpool; promising to write when he is "once more in [his] own village"; discussing [Michel de] Montaigne.
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