Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Ownership: Owen D. Young
Publications: Poems (Boston: James Munroe, 1847 [i.e. December, 1846]).
Citation/Reference: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9, Poems: A Variorum Edition, ed. Albert J. von Frank and Thomas Wortham (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2011), 282-87.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 double leaf
[3 written sides]. Printer's copy for Poems (London, 1847), ink on leaves numbered 205, 206, 207. Typed transcription, 2 leaves. Collector's cover sheet (Owen Young), 1 leaf.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19738382
Archives ID: 22322
Other local Identifier: 4882337
Other local Identifier: 0b38dc80-26a6-0130-38aa-58d385a7bbd0
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Emerson m.b.
Archives EAD ID: 945928
Archives Components ID: 763378
Accession number: 214292B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2de47760-091a-013a-2c8c-0242ac110004

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. ""Dirge." Holograph poem, unsigned, dated 1838" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2de47760-091a-013a-2c8c-0242ac110004

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1838). "Dirge." Holograph poem, unsigned, dated 1838 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2de47760-091a-013a-2c8c-0242ac110004

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. ""Dirge." Holograph poem, unsigned, dated 1838" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2de47760-091a-013a-2c8c-0242ac110004

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