Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and manuscript

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origination

{"value"=>"Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and manuscript"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1854-1860", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1854/1860"}

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abstract

{"value"=>"Several autograph letters dating from 1854 to 1860 and four lines of manuscript verse signed by Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Letters are brief, and relate to social and speaking engagements. One letter to publisher James R. Osgood includes a list of individuals to whom Emerson wished to send inscribed copies of The Conduct of Life"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Some material in the collection was originally received as part of the Ford collection.</p>"}

date_inclusive_start

1854

date_inclusive_end

1860

keydate

1854

prefercite

{"value"=>"Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and manuscript, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

date_start

1854

date_end

1860

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