Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters : to Rebecca Amory Lowell, 1837-1840.

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters : to Rebecca Amory Lowell, 1837-1840.

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Two autograph letters, signed, from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Rebecca Amory Lowell, dated June 2, 1837, and May 1, 1840. The first letter, written from 19 Irving Place, New York, relates events in the lives of several mutual acquaintances. The second letter (no location specified, but possibly Salem, Mass.) expresses condolences on the death of Rebecca Lowell's father (John Lowell), and discusses scholarship in German literature and philosophy.

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Lowell, Rebecca Amory, 1794-1873.

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