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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American author and philosopher (1803–1882). whose central role in the Transcendentalist movement earned him a place among the most influential figures in 19th-century literature and thought. ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page, 6.5 x 8, October 3, [1856]. Letter to his publisher F. H. Underwood of Boston trying to get a letter to poet James Russell Lowell. In full: “If Mr. Lowell is in town today, will you be good enough to give him the enclosed note. If not, let it go into the mail & oblige yours.” Reverse bears an address panel in Emerson’s hand to Underwood. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a few lightly affecting signature, some scattered light toning and soiling, and a repaired tear from wax seal affecting a single word of text. After a speech entitled ‘The American Scholar,’ in 1837, in which Emerson urged Americans to create their own writing style, Lowell called it ‘an event without former parallel on our literary annals.’