AMERICAN LITERATURE. A collection of a letter, manuscript and an envelope, comprising: Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882). Autograph letter signed ('R.W. Emerson') to T.M. Brewer, Concord, 13 January 1849, 1½ pages, 4to , with integral address leaf, postmarked (two seal tears to address leaf); and an autograph manuscript by James Fenimore COOPER ([circa 1831], an autobiographical account, listing his novels including 'Last of Mohicans', one page, 4to ), and an autograph envelope by Longfellow.
AMERICAN LITERATURE. A collection of a letter, manuscript and an envelope, comprising: Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882). Autograph letter signed ('R.W. Emerson') to T.M. Brewer, Concord, 13 January 1849, 1½ pages, 4to , with integral address leaf, postmarked (two seal tears to address leaf); and an autograph manuscript by James Fenimore COOPER ([circa 1831], an autobiographical account, listing his novels including 'Last of Mohicans', one page, 4to ), and an autograph envelope by Longfellow. Emerson begs for 'forbearance' from the editor of the Atlas in Boston, in relation to a course of lectures which he is about to begin, asking 'that you will not make any verbatim reports, in your paper'. Having recently made the same request concerning his lectures at the Mercantile Library, Emerson doubts that his forthcoming talks, 'in part metaphysical, will be very likely to tempt your reporter'. His concern arises from his plans for future publication, 'These lectures are rather studies, than finished discourses, and I hope one day to complete, revise, & print them, or the substance of them ...'). Emerson is, however, careful to point out that his work is 'entirely open to your strictures & criticism.' (3)
AMERICAN LITERATURE. A collection of a letter, manuscript and an envelope, comprising: Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882). Autograph letter signed ('R.W. Emerson') to T.M. Brewer, Concord, 13 January 1849, 1½ pages, 4to , with integral address leaf, postmarked (two seal tears to address leaf); and an autograph manuscript by James Fenimore COOPER ([circa 1831], an autobiographical account, listing his novels including 'Last of Mohicans', one page, 4to ), and an autograph envelope by Longfellow.
AMERICAN LITERATURE. A collection of a letter, manuscript and an envelope, comprising: Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803-1882). Autograph letter signed ('R.W. Emerson') to T.M. Brewer, Concord, 13 January 1849, 1½ pages, 4to , with integral address leaf, postmarked (two seal tears to address leaf); and an autograph manuscript by James Fenimore COOPER ([circa 1831], an autobiographical account, listing his novels including 'Last of Mohicans', one page, 4to ), and an autograph envelope by Longfellow. Emerson begs for 'forbearance' from the editor of the Atlas in Boston, in relation to a course of lectures which he is about to begin, asking 'that you will not make any verbatim reports, in your paper'. Having recently made the same request concerning his lectures at the Mercantile Library, Emerson doubts that his forthcoming talks, 'in part metaphysical, will be very likely to tempt your reporter'. His concern arises from his plans for future publication, 'These lectures are rather studies, than finished discourses, and I hope one day to complete, revise, & print them, or the substance of them ...'). Emerson is, however, careful to point out that his work is 'entirely open to your strictures & criticism.' (3)
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