BIB_ID
136169
Accession number
MA 920.22
Creator
Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841.
Display Date
1838 May 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.7 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).
The verso reads, "Respectfully, To whom it may concern."
The verso reads, "Respectfully, To whom it may concern."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
A letter written to "introduce to public notice, the bearer, Mr. David Henry Thoreau, as a Teacher in the higher branches of useful literature." Ripley lists Thoreau's qualifications and notes that his "scholarship and moral character will bear the strictest scrutiny."
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