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Thoreau, Henry D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847

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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 D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847
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: 1847-12-02
Place: Manchester, England
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 I - Z
Topics
Intellectuals -- United States
Manchester (England)
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Ownership: Owen D. Young
Citation/reference: The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; 1990-1995), 8:135-37. The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter Harding and Carl Bode (NYC: New York University Press, 1958), 194-95. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, The Correspondence, vol. 1, 1834-1848, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 324-27.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf
[4 written pages, including address] 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: 4882832
Other local Identifier: ccedbf40-2ac2-0130-fa6d-58d385a7bbd0
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Emerson m.b.
Archives EAD ID: 946069
Accession number: 214240B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 73259f60-091a-013a-2b09-0242ac110004
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1803: Creator Born
  • 1847: Created
  • 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 D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1847. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8f6c3c0-b989-0130-2dab-0050568c6644

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Thoreau, Henry D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8f6c3c0-b989-0130-2dab-0050568c6644

APA Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1847). Thoreau, Henry D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847 Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8f6c3c0-b989-0130-2dab-0050568c6644

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Thoreau, Henry D[avid], ALS to. Dec. 2, 1847