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The progress of culture : autograph manuscript signed : [Massachusetts], [1867] July 17.

BIB_ID
126836
Accession number
MA 687.1
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1867] July 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
A note on p. 10 reads: "I send this sketch of the heads - have no time for the enlargement of any but the first." Signed "R.W. Emerson" and dated "17 July."
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
An outline of the speech given by Emerson on Phi Beta Kappa day at Harvard University in 1867.