Scope and arrangement
The Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers is arranged in six series:
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This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1821 to 1912 (bulk 1837-1882) with some undated material. The collection is particularly strong on poetry, including over twenty poems in manuscript, most from Emerson's earlier period. The correspondence covers a wide range of correspondents, including Amos Bronson Alcott, H.G.O. Blake, Thomas Carlyle, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophie Peabody Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also contains Whitman's notes about relations between Emerson and himself.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers is arranged in six series:
Dictionary Catalog of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1969-1983, 5 vols. plus 2 supplements. See Vol 2 pp 24-31, Vol 4 p 647 and the 1st supplement p 149