BIB_ID
126828
Accession number
MA 575
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1851].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 134 p.), unbound ; 25.5 cm (page size varies slightly)
Notes
Emerson has paginated portions of the manuscript in ink; the Morgan Library has added pencil numbers to all the other pages. The page numbering is as follows: 1-48, 48a-f, 49-70, 70a-b, 71-134, 135-137 [a single page given three numbers by Emerson], 138, 139-141 [a single page given three numbers by Emerson], 142-162. The following pages are blank: 10, 12, 34, 40, 48, 48b, 68, 70b, 94, 98, 100, 108, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 134, 138, 144, 154, 162.
This manuscript is that of a lecture delivered by Emerson in 1851 and later published as an essay.
Written in brown ink on blue paper, except pages 70a-b and 145-162, which are written on cream paper.
This manuscript is that of a lecture delivered by Emerson in 1851 and later published as an essay.
Written in brown ink on blue paper, except pages 70a-b and 145-162, which are written on cream paper.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.4 cm)
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