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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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