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Description
This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1821 to 1912 (bulk 1837-1882) with some undated material. The collection is particularly strong on poetry, including over twenty poems in manuscript, most from Emerson's earlier period. The correspondence covers a wide range of correspondents, including Amos Bronson Alcott, H.G.O. Blake, Thomas Carlyle, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophie Peabody Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also contains Whitman's notes about relations between Emerson and himself.
Names
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Creator)
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 (Addressee)
Blake, H. G. O. (Harrison Gray Otis), 1816?-1898 (Author)
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (Author)
Chapman, John, 1822-1894 (Addressee)
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 (Addressee)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (Addressee)
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871 (Addressee)
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Author)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Author)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Addressee)
Blake, H. G. O. (Harrison Gray Otis), 1816?-1898 (Addressee)
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (Addressee)
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Addressee)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1821 - 1912
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Emerson
Topics
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
American poetry
American essays
Transcendentalism -- Sources
Intellectuals -- United States
Genres
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Portraits
Notes
Creation/production credits: Indexed in: Dictionary Catalog of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1969-1983, 5 vols. plus 2 supplements. See Vol 2 pp 24-31, Vol 4 p 647 and the 1st supplement p 149.
Additional physical form: The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his circle contains 1 autograph letter, signed, by Emerson to A. H. Clough.
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Biographical/historical: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and poet.
Physical Description
Extent: 180 items
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19738382
MSS Unit ID: 22322
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 113468c0-091a-013a-a522-0242ac110003
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