W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

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W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

Channing writes to Dear Sir [Rev. J.D. Kingsbury], a long letter about the origin and growth of Transcendentalism in New England, pointing out articles in The dial by Emerson and Thoreau. He closes with a long paragraph about the Brook Farm experiment.

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Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884

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William Henry Channing, Unitarian minister and reformer, was born in Boston, Mass. He was the editor of The western messenger, 1838-1839, spent time at Brook Farm, wrote a memoir of his uncle, William Ellery Channing (1848), and with Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Freeman Clarke, wrote a memoir of Margaret Fuller (1852). He later accepted positions as minister in several Unitarian churches in England. From the description of W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29. (Pennsylvani...

Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)

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Brook Farm was founded by George Ripley in 1841 as a cooperative community based on a transcendental utopian model. In 1844, it began to run on a model inspired by Charles Fourier and in 1845 officially declared itself a Fourierist Phalanx. From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1844-1845 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612823101 ...

Kingsbury, J. D. (John Dennison), 1831-

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