The fall of the leaf: autograph manuscript leaf, [ca. 1854-1858].

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The fall of the leaf: autograph manuscript leaf, [ca. 1854-1858].

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The leaf reads, in part: "The first fall is now over. In the dry year 1854--I noticed that all these leaves which had changed the latter part of August, had by this time fall & many tree tops--maple & chestnut were bare. As I was going through the Deep Cut I saw, what I thought at first was a rare high-colored flower on the sandy bank, but returning & ascending to it, I found that it was a trifolium arvense whose narrow leaves were turned a bright crimson enhanced by the sun shining through it, & lighting it up...Thus gradually & successively each plant lends its richest color to the general effect, & in the fittest place, & passes away."

1 item (2 p.) ; 24.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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