Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson [manuscript], 1822-1930 (bulk 1830-1877).

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Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson [manuscript], 1822-1930 (bulk 1830-1877).

1822-1930 (bulk 1830-1877).

The collection contains complete manuscripts or portions of numerous poems including "The rhodora," "Hymn, sung at the completion of the Concord monument," "Days," "Sea-shore," "Behold the sea," "Friends at Folansbee Lake," "Illusions," and "The forerunners." Prose manuscripts include those for "Solution" and "Unitarian belief" with portions of numerous other essays or lectures including one on John Quincy Adams. Other manuscripts include an 11 page autobiography through 1856; an "Account of interview with Mr. J. Adams, aged 90" and prologue to a Christmas play, with associated manuscript of F. B. Sanborn. Printed material consists of newsclippings of Emerson's obituaries. There are also 14 prints or photographs of Emerson and his home. Correspondence relates to the literary career and personal life of Emerson, to his ministry in the Unitarian Church, his lectures in the United States and abroad, hs editorship of "The Dial," his relationship with Thomas Carlyle and the supervision of the American edition of Carlyle's work. There are also letters of Edward Waldo Emerson and Ellen T. Emerson with their father. Chief correspondents include C. A. Bartol, Henry Whitney Bellows, Samuel Bellows, Samuel Brown, James Eliott Cabot, Peleg Chandler, James Freeman Clark, Moncure Daniel Conway, Rebecca L. Duncan, Likian Jackson Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Fields, Osgood & Co., Gugielmo Gajani, Henry George, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Arthur Helps, and Alexander Ireland. Also Little, Brown & Co., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Theodore Lyman, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, William B. Robers, L. B. Russell, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Epes Sargent, John Sartain, Mary E. P. Stearns, George Luther Stearns, Henry David Thoreau, John Weiss, C.H. Wheeler, Charles Stearns Wheeler, and B. B. Wiley. Topics include religion, philosophy, American culture and government, Brook Farm, Fourierism, abolition, poetry, Longfellow's novel "Kavanagh," the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Emerson's translation of the Persian poet Hafiz, the Concord Centennial, the Saturday Club, Emerson's English and California tours, the Boston Athenaeum, the Fourth of July and the case of French vs. Upton. The following people are also mentioned in his correspondence : Amos Bronson Alcott, Louis Aggasiz, Lord & Lady Amberley, George Bancroft, William Ellery Channing, Arthur Hugh Clough, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Fuller, Horatio Greenough, Herman F. Grimm, Harro Paul Herring, Samule Hoar, Also Washington Irving, Henry James, Charles Morris, John Gorham Palfry, Coventry Patmore, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Sarah Sheppard, Daniel Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, William A. Wheeler and William Wordsworth.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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Amberley, Katharine Louisa Stanley Russell, viscountess, 1842-1874

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Boston clergyman and author. From the description of Letter and photograph of John Weiss, 1876 February 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 62383380 John Weiss was a radical New England Unitarian minister and author. He was an ardent abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, and a Transcendentalist. His many lectures and literary works include commentaries on Shakespeare, American literature, modern religion, and Greek religion; he was a pivotal figure in tr...

George, Henry, 1862-1916

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Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900

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Cyrus August Bartol, 1813-1900, Unitarian minister, graduated from Harvard Divinity School 1835, received D.D. from Harvard College in 1859. Ordained in 1837, pastor at the West Church in Boston from 1837-1889. From the description of C.A. Bartol. Sermons, 1859-1888 (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 423214618 The Rev. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, DD, was born in Freeport, Maine, April 30, 1813. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832 and from Har...

Emerson, Ellen Tucker, 1839-1909

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Second child and elder daughter of philosopher, essayist, poet, and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson and his wife Lidian (Lydia Jackson) Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts. She was born at Bush (the Emerson home on the Cambridge Turnpike) and named for her father’s first wife. She attended Elizabeth Sedgwick’s school for girls in Lenox, Massachusetts, the Agassiz School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Frank Sanborn’s school in Concord. Never marri...

Weiss, John, 1948- 1948-

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Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903

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Son of Samuel Cabot, Jr., brother of Edward Clarke Cabot. Graduated Harvard Law School, 1845. Practiced law with Francis E. Parker, 1847. Accompanied Agassiz on his tour of Lake Superior region in 1848 and upon his return published a narrative journal of the expedition. Worked as architect with E.C. Cabot, 1849-58 and 1862-65. Assisted Emerson in preparing for press his Letters and social aims. Trustee (1857-1885, 1899-1902) and vice-president (1886-1898) of the Boston Athenaeum. Fro...