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Items [Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]

[Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers

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Series III: Outgoing Correspondence

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Title
[Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]
Names
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Author)
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Addressee)
Collection

Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers

Series III: Outgoing Correspondence

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1838-11-12 - 1841-06-07 (Questionable)
Place: Concord, MA
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Emerson
Shelf locator: Four Autog'ph Notes to H.D.Thoreau RWE
Topics
Intellectuals -- United States
Concord (Mass.)
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Ownership: W. T. H. Howe
Content: Though Rusk's dating was followed by Harding and Bode, and Rusk also proposes June 29, 1840 (2:174), Tilton gives full reasoning for her later dating of the note in the footnote on 7:455-56, and is followed by Hudspeth, 1:75-76.
Citation/reference: The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; 1990-1995), 7:455-56. The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter Harding and Carl Bode (NYC: New York University Press, 1958), 30. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, The Correspondence, vol. 1, 1834-1848, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013),
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf
[1 written side] pencil.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19738382
MSS Unit ID: 22322
Other local Identifier: 4883253
Other local Identifier: 8df99100-2db7-0130-70f8-58d385a7bbd0
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Emerson
Archives EAD ID: 946064
Accession number: 124580B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 71fc5b70-091a-013a-d391-0242ac110003
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Item timeline of events

  • 1803: Creator Born
  • 1838: Created (Approximate)
  • 1882: Creator Died
  • 2022: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838 - 1841. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/943eddc0-c489-0130-0528-58d385a7bbd0

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/943eddc0-c489-0130-0528-58d385a7bbd0

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1838 - 1841). [Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/943eddc0-c489-0130-0528-58d385a7bbd0

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[Thoreau, Henry David], ANS to. [Jun. 7?, 1841? (Tilton)] or [Nov. 12?, 1838? (Rusk)]