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- Creator
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Call number
- MssCol 4367
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and manuscript, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
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
Administrative information
Custodial history
Some material in the collection was originally received as part of the Ford collection.
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328