BIB_ID
292475
Accession number
MA 687.6
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1852 Feb. 21].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
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).
Written from Astor House and dated "Saturday"; the exact date is from Rusk's edition of Emerson's letters.
Written from Astor House and dated "Saturday"; the exact date is from Rusk's edition of Emerson's letters.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Telling him that he is returning home and suspending his lectures for a fortnight; mentioning that he promised a man "who represented the Brooklyn Lyceum" that he would lecture there next Thursday; asking Rice to find this man and tell him that Emerson will be unable to lecture "by reason of a sudden necessity of going to Massachusetts."
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