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Creator
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Emerson
Physical description
180 items
Preferred Citation
Ralph Waldo Emerson collection of papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

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.

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Related Material

The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his circle contains 1 autograph letter, signed, by Emerson to A. H. Clough

Bibliography

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

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Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320