BIB_ID
126810
Accession number
MA 687.8
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
1850 Feb. [i.e. Mar.] 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25 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).
The month of the letter appears to be incorrect; the last name of the recipient may also be missing. See Rusk's edition of Emerson's letters for more information.
The month of the letter appears to be incorrect; the last name of the recipient may also be missing. See Rusk's edition of Emerson's letters for more information.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Explaining that he just received Gordon's letter because it was addressed to him in Boston instead of Concord; saying that he was flattered by Gordon's request for "a copy of [his] head for Mr. Powell's book"; noting that "the few artists who have painted or daguerrotyped [his] head, have agreed unanimously that [he] was a bad sitter, & they could make nothing of [his] face."
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