BIB_ID
126814
Accession number
MA 920.33
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
1854 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 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
Saying he meant to see him "but for delays that grew out of the snowbanks"; asking him to meet a Professor [Eben N.] Horsford and a Theodore Parker when they arrive in Concord to lecture at the Lyceum: "guide them to our house, & help the alarmed wife to entertain them."
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