Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Dimensions
26 x 28.5 x 1.5 cm (10 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 9/16 in.)
Display Media
Ink on paper in leather binding
Web Commentary
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement. His writing is synonymous with its progressive social values and spiritual identification with the natural environment. This original manuscript contains an address given at a college in Maine in 1841 and shows signs of the author’s own edits. Isabella Stewart Gardner displayed this manuscript alongside materials related to other important American authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, in the Blue Room.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement. His writing is synonymous with its progressive social values and spiritual identification with the natural environment. This original manuscript contains an address given at a college in Maine in 1841 and shows signs of the author’s own edits. Isabella Stewart Gardner displayed this manuscript alongside materials related to other important American authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, in the Blue Room.