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Letter from Theodore Parker, Greenfield, [Maine], to John Sullivan Dwi...

Theodore Parker writes to John S. Dwight in regards to small town life. He writes about his dismay at missing Mr. Emerson's lectures and his "inspiration" of nature. He will leave Greenfield at the end of the m... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Ga...

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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Ga...

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Letter from Mary E. Robbins, Lynn, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Wes...

Mary E. Robbins writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to the conversation at her house which left "unlovely impressions" on Anne's mind. She has felt the deepest sympathy for Emerson and Alcott. She gathered ... More

Letter from Theodore Parker, West Roxbury, [Massachusetts], to Convers...

Theodore Parker writes to Convers Francis in regards to whether he will attend Emerson's lectures this winter. He writes that, "The first was splendid, better meditation & more coherent than any other." He beli... More

Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, O...

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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, O...

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Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston,...

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Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Maria Weston Chapman, O...

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Herman Hooker autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, [1842?]

Inquires about an announcement that [Ralph Waldo?] Emerson is printing an edition of [John] Sterling. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Chauncy Pl., [Boston], Deborah Weston,...

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Herman Hooker autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, [1842?]

Inquires about an announcement that [Ralph Waldo?] Emerson is printing an edition of [John] Sterling. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Theodore Parker, West Roxbury, [Massachusetts], to Ralph W...

Theodore Parker writes in Am.1157, p.1 notes to an unknown person. Theodore Parker writes in Am.1157,p.2 an outline for an essay tiled "of Theology" written in 1849 in Manchester, England. Theodore Parker write... More

Rough draft of an essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson by Maria Weston Chapman...

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Letter from Mary Merrick Brooks, Concord, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston,...

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Letter from Mary Merrick Brooks, Concord, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston,...

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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 39 Summer Street, [Boston], to Deborah...

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Horace Greeley, New York, autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 2...

Sends some notes on Emerson and suggests that Griswold consult [Henry David] Thoreau for further information. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Incomplete letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Mass.], to Caroline Wes...

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Horace Greeley, New York, autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 1...

Asks for the manuscript of his lecture, in Griswold's possession. Recommends Emerson's Poems [Boston 1847]. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Cha...

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Eight hundred thousand slaves set free : The anniversary of emancipati...

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Letter from Anne Warren Weston, 26 Essex St., Boston, to Caroline West...

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Letter from Deborah Weston, Chauncy Place, [Boston, Mass.], to Carolin...

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Letter from Wendell Phillips to Anne Warren Weston, [26 Aug. 1851?]

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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Mary ...

James Miller McKim writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to reading her letter sent to Miss Pugh and urges her to take care of her health. He says, "The cause..can do without you..you have everything in the wor... More

Thomas Wentworth Higginson circular letter, Boston, 2 November 1859

Invitation to contribute toward the defense of John Brown. Printed form. Contains also the names of Samuel E[dmund] Sewall, S[amuel] G[ridley] Howe, and R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson. Written on the circular is a sta... More

Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, 3 Dec. ...

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson circular letter, Boston, 2 November 1859

Invitation to contribute toward the defense of John Brown. Printed form. Contains also the names of Samuel E[dmund] Sewall, S[amuel] G[ridley] Howe, and R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson. Written on the circular is a sta... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Wendell Philli...

Receipts, two, signed by RWE, March and November 1864.

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Sophia Hawthorne autograph letter signed to James Thomas Fields, [Conc...

Sees no harm in using the names of [George] Ripley and [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. Is hopeless about financial perceptions; sent the tax-gatherer back to [George Stillman] Hillard. Refers to "Passages from Hawthorne... More

Sophia Hawthorne autograph letter signed to James Thomas Fields, [Conc...

Tells him how [Ralph Waldo] Emerson broke in upon his precious Sunday to deliver the package. Asks if Fields sent her $100 in March; wants to verify her accounts. Signed "S.H." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Sophia Hawthorne autograph letter signed to James Thomas Fields, [Conc...

Tells him how [Ralph Waldo] Emerson broke in upon his precious Sunday to deliver the package. Asks if Fields sent her $100 in March; wants to verify her accounts. Signed "S.H." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Anquétil-DuPerron, Abraham Hyacinthe. Preface to his Latin translation...

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Kate Field autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Char...

Thanking him for a copy of Mary Wollstonecraft's "Rights of Women", describing house hunting in Boston, and a lecture by Emerson on art. Old folder #: same. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Samuel May, J...

Harte, Bret. [Review of] Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

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Celia Thaxter autograph letter signed to [Annie Fields, Shoals, N.H., ...

About her difference of opinion with Emerson concerning Channing, Shelley and Whitman. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Celia Thaxter autograph letter signed to Annie Fields, Shoals, [N.H.],...

Was five hours yesterday "slopping between here and Portsmouth on the edge of this tremendous storm." Thinks Channing not worthy to write of Thoreau, his style is bit "an aping of Emerson." Refers to William El... More

Bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Second Church, Boston

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Chapin, J[ean] T., [Concord in 1875], holograph, unsigned, dated 1912.

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Invitation from Concord, Massachusetts, to William Lloyd Garrison, Nin...

Printed invitation by the inhabitants of the town of Concord, Mass., to William Lloyd Garrison to attend a centennial celebration of the opening of the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1875. Courtesy of Boston Pu... More

Letter from Lidian Jackson Emerson, Concord, to William Lloyd Garrison...

Letter from Joseph Lupton, Leeds, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison...

Joseph Lupton writes a letter of introduction to William Lloyd Garrison for his brother-in-law, Mr. George Buckton. Lupton states that Buckton and his daughter are visiting the United States for several weeks t... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Roxbury, [Mass.], to Fanny Garriso...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson manuscript notes, 188-?

Notes referring to Emerson and the Dial. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Edward Waldo Emerson autograph note signed to Thomas Wentworth Higgins...

Considers his request for Margaret Fuller papers still in Emerson family. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Celia Thaxter autograph letter signed to [Annie Fields, Shoals, N.H.],...

Thanks her for a poem and the new edition of Emerson's Letters [and Social Aims]. Must "engineer" Gertrude Stoddard over to the farm. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

James C. Davis, autograph note signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, B...

Concerns letters by Margaret Fuller to his father. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Edward Waldo Emerson autograph note signed to Thomas Wentworth Higgins...

Sends letters by Margaret Fuller to his father to Higginson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Helen Olcott Choate Bell autograph note signed to Thomas Wentworth Hig...

Asking him to tell her the meaning of "Hamatreya," the name of a poem by Emerson. Old folder #: same. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bartolomeo Vanzetti autographed letter signed (incomplete) to [Elizabe...

Discussing Ralph Waldo Emerson and two of his essays ("History" and "Self-reliance") which she sent him for Christmas, and mentioning Catherine Breshkovskaia. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bartolomeo Vanzetti typed letter (copy) to Gertrude L. Winslow, [Dedha...

Thanking her for a book including excerpts from Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bartolomeo Vanzetti typed letter (copy) to Gertrude L. Winslow, [Dedha...

Thanking her for a book including excerpts from Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bartolomeo Vanzetti typed letter (copy) to Gertrude L. Winslow, [Dedha...

Thanking her for a book including excerpts from Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Bartolomeo Vanzetti typed letter (copy) to Gertrude L. Winslow, [Dedha...

Thanking her for a book including excerpts from Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord, Mass.

Grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous poet and philosopher, born in Boston, 1805 and died in Concord in 1882, lies in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Here are buried some of ... More

"Of Beauty." Holograph essay, draft, unsigned, undated. Engraved portr...

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William Emerson, ALS to W. M. Prichard. Dec. 31, 1850.

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [Rev. James Freeman Clarke]. Oct. 29, 186...

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [Rev. James Freeman] Clark[e]. Apr. 28, 1...

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [Rev. James Freeman] Clarke. Sep. 22, 188...

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Ellen T. Emerson, ANS to Rev. J[ames] F[reeman] Clarke. Apr. 28, 1882.

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Ellen T. Emerson, ALS to [James Russell] Lowell. Apr. 28, 1882.

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Ellen T. Emerson, ALS to J[ean] T. Chapin. Oct. 29, 1884.

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Sanborn, F[ranklin] B[enjamin], ALS to [Oliver Wendell] Holmes. Mar. ...

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [Rev. James Freeman] Clarke. Jun. 13, 188...

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [DeWitt Miller]. Apr. 29, [1888].

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Edith Emerson Forbes ALS to Charles Eliot Norton, May 15, 1890.

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"Edward Waldo Emerson ALS to Charles Eliot Norton, Aug. 10, 1892, encl...

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [DeWitt Miller]. Jun. 23, 1896.

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to [DeWitt Miller]. Feb. 5, 1901.

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to DeWitt Miller. Jan. 18, 1901.

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to DeWitt Miller. Sep. 1, [1901?].

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Edward Waldo Emerson, ALS to DeWitt Miller. Oct. 26, 1902.

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The Old Manse, Concord, Mass. Concord MA. 19th century sterescopic vie...

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Letter from Theodore Parker, Greenfield, [Maine], to John Sullivan Dwi...

Theodore Parker writes to John S. Dwight in regards to small town life. He writes about his dismay at missing Mr. Emerson's lectures and his "inspiration" of nature. He will leave Greenfield at the end of the m... More

Letter from Mary E. Robbins, Lynn, [Massachusetts], to Anne Warren Wes...

Mary E. Robbins writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to the conversation at her house which left "unlovely impressions" on Anne's mind. She has felt the deepest sympathy for Emerson and Alcott. She gathered ... More

Letter from Theodore Parker, West Roxbury, [Massachusetts], to Convers...

Theodore Parker writes to Convers Francis in regards to whether he will attend Emerson's lectures this winter. He writes that, "The first was splendid, better meditation & more coherent than any other." He beli... More

Letter from Evelina A. S. Smith, Hingham, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston,...

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