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Collection of two autograph manuscripts, two autograph poems, and five autograph letters : Concord, New York, and London, [1836] Apr. 30-1867 July 17.

BIB_ID
292480
Accession number
MA 687.1-9
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1836] Apr. 30-1867 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (9 items), bound ; 25 cm
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Collection includes: autograph manuscript signed of The progress of culture (MA 687.1); autograph manuscript of Mr. Emerson's remarks at the Kansas Relief meeting in Cambridge (MA 687.2); autograph poem signed with first line, "Ever the poet from the land" (MA 687.3); autograph copy of an excerpt from Chaucer's The Physician's Tale (MA 687.4); and five autograph letters to various recipients (MA 687.5-9). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 687.1-9).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.1 cm)