BIB_ID
292562
Accession number
MA 884.6
Creator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Display Date
[1859 Dec. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Introduced by a page in Henry D. Thoreau's hand that gives biographical information about Jefferson and notes that the quotation from Jefferson was read by Charles Bowers.
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.
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
Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia (Query XVIII) transcribed by Emerson and introduced by Thoreau. The passages were read by Charles Bowers at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.
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