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[Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848.

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

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Henry David Thoreau collection

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Series III. Outgoing Correspondence

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Title
[Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848.
Names
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Author)
Blake, H. G. O. (Harrison Gray Otis), 1816?-1898 (Addressee)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Transcriber)
Collection

Henry David Thoreau collection

Series III. Outgoing Correspondence

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1848-03-27
Place: Concord, MA
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Thoreau
Shelf locator: Thoreau Letters Transcribed by Emerson
Topics
Authors, American -- 19th century
Intellectuals -- United States
Naturalists -- United States
Concord (Mass.)
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Ownership: W. T. H. Howe
Citation/reference: The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter Harding and Carl Bode (NYC: New York University Press, 1958), 214-17 (text of whole letter from Sanborn's printed text [Familiar Letters of Thoreau]; this extract in RWE's hand follows the fragment of MS or draft [NYPL Record ID 4909940] that concludes the letter, starting on p. 216).
Content: [4 written sides]
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15520476
MSS Unit ID: 19098
Other local Identifier: 173787B
Other local Identifier: 4881171
Other local Identifier: 62b45750-1ca3-0130-6314-58d385a7bbd0
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Thoreau
Archives EAD ID: 949820
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 62b45750-1ca3-0130-6314-58d385a7bbd0
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Item timeline of events

  • 1817: Creator Born
  • 1848: Created
  • 1862: Creator Died
  • 2021: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1848. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27ca99c0-7a5a-0132-b3eb-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27ca99c0-7a5a-0132-b3eb-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1848). [Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/27ca99c0-7a5a-0132-b3eb-58d385a7b928

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[Blake, Harrison G. O.], letter to, copy in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mar. 27, 1848.