BIB_ID
126812
Accession number
MA 920.29
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
1850 Mar. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph poems, essays, and letters written by or to Thoreau. Items in the collection are described in 37 individual records (MA 920.1-37).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Telling him he is going out of town and asking him to act as his attorney "if any question arises between [Charles] Bartlett and [Emerson] in regard to boundary lines"; asking him to warn Mr. Barlett "against burning his woodlot, without having there present a sufficient number of hands to prevent the fire from spreading into [Emerson's] wood."
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