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Title
"Blight." Holograph poem, unsigned, undated
Names
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Author)
Collection

Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers

Series I: Manuscripts

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1843-07-10
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Emerson
Shelf locator: m.b. Emerson ALS A - H
Topics
Intellectuals -- United States
Genres
Manuscripts
Poetry
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: July 10-16, 1843. See Collected Works 9:272.
Ownership: Owen D. Young
Publications: Poems (Boston: James Monroe, 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), 272-76.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf
[3 written sides]. Printer's copy for Poems (London, 1847), ink on leaves numbered 202, 203, 204 (with significant bleed through). Typed transcription, 2 leaves. Collector's cover sheet (Owen Young), 1 leaf.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19738382
MSS Unit ID: 22322
Other local Identifier: 4882334
Other local Identifier: 6d52ceb0-26a5-0130-1096-58d385a7bbd0
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Emerson m.b.
Archives EAD ID: 945925
Accession number: 214278B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2b92d950-091a-013a-4c36-0242ac110004
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1803: Creator Born
  • 1843: Created
  • 1882: Creator Died
  • 2022: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. ""Blight." Holograph poem, unsigned, undated" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1843. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/74f800f0-b050-0130-57d9-58d385a7bbd0

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"Blight." Holograph poem, unsigned, undated