BIB_ID
292524
Accession number
MA 884.5
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Includes passages by [William] Collins, [Friedrich] Schiller, [William] Wordsworth, [Alfred] Tennyson, George Chapman, [Henry] Wotton, and Tacitus.
Introduced by a sentence in Thoreau's hand on p. 1: "Mr. Thoreau also read the following passages selected by another." Thoreau has also written the authors' names by some passages, and the bulk of p. 8 (a passage from Henry Wotton) is in his hand.
Part of a collection of autograph speeches delivered at the John Brown Relief and Memorial Meetings held in Massachusetts in 1859-60. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 884 for more information.
Introduced by a sentence in Thoreau's hand on p. 1: "Mr. Thoreau also read the following passages selected by another." Thoreau has also written the authors' names by some passages, and the bulk of p. 8 (a passage from Henry Wotton) is in his hand.
Part of a collection of autograph speeches delivered at the John Brown Relief and Memorial Meetings held in Massachusetts in 1859-60. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 884 for more information.
Provenance
Franklin B. Sanborn; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Boston dealer C. E. Goodspeed, 1909.
Summary
Passages transcribed by Emerson and read by Thoreau at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.
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