Emerson, Ralph Walda THE RALPH WALDO EMERSON SOCIETY Office of the Secretary Robert D. Habich Department of English Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306-0460 Phone 765-285-8580/office 765-747-1189/home Email rhabich@bsu.edu January 2, 2007 Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. (R07) 47 Pond View Dr. Merrimack NH 03054 Thank you for your membership in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society at the regular level for 2007. As a member of the Society, you join over 225 others from around the world who support scholarship about and appreciation of Emerson's life, writings, and legacy. Regular membership ($10) helps to defray the costs of producing the biannual Emerson Society Papers. Contributing ($25) or sustaining ($50) membership supports special programs, including our grant and awards program. We are catching our collective breath from a busy 2006. As you may know, in July the Society cosponsored an international conference at Oxford University, "Transatlanticism in American Literature." Forty-three members of the Emerson Society were among the 170 participants from 18 countries. In addition to the chance for us to exchange ideas, renew acquaintances, and make new ones, the conference confirmed the international drift of Emerson studies. We now boast Society members in 11 countries outside the U.S., including for the first time India, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. For information, including the program, visit the conference web site, http://www.cofc.edu/~peeples/oxford/Oxford.htm and see the fall 2006 issue of Emerson Society Papers. Besides our international adventure, in 2006 we conducted two sessions and our annual business meeting in May at the meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco, and we conducted another successful program in connection with the Thoreau Society's annual gathering in Concord from July 6-9. And finally, we made four awards to support research, graduate student presentations, and pedagogical or community-based projects that foster appreciation for Emerson. In 2007 we will again meet at ALA, (www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/) this time in Boston, May 24-27, and participate in the Thoreau Society's gathering in Concord, July 12-15 (www.thoreausociety.org). And for our awards program, we will continue on the lookout for outstanding projects in Emerson studies. For information on the awards, please visit the link on our society's web site http://www.emersonsociety.org or contact Barbara Packer at UCLA, PACKER@humnet.ucla.edu. I hope to see you at some or all of our activities this year, and I wish you all the best for 2007. If you have questions, comments, news, or suggestions, please let us hear from you. Sincerely, RED Welcome! Robert D. Habich Secretary/Treasurer The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is a tax-exempt organization under the terms of IRS Code 501(c) (3). emerson Chronology: Emerson Page I of y RIVE The Ralpk Wald's Emerson Society Chronology 1796 25 October Reverend William Emerson marries Ruth Haskins 1798 9 February Phebe Ripley Emerson born 1799 28 November John Clarke Emerson born 1800 28 September Phebe Ripley Emerson dies 1801 31 July William Emerson born 1802 20 September Lydia Jackson born 1803 25 May Ralph Waldo Emerson born 1805 17 April Edward Bliss Emerson born 1807 11 April Robert Bulkeley Emerson born 26 April John Clarke Emerson dies 1808 http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/chronology/emersonchronsublink.html 1/11/2007 viinuteman Library Ietwork/oncoro Page 1 of L minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help A 100 000 no 000 III 000 IM New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903. Concord Search team Record 4 of 7 Record: Prev Next Author Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903. Title A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson / by James Elliot Cabot. Publication info. Cambridge : Printed at the Riverside Press, 1887. Location Call No. Status CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 2 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 1 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 2 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 1 Description 2 vol. ; 24 cm. Note No. 112 of edition limited to 500 copies. BAL, vol.3, p. 68, note. "Chronological list of lectures and addresses ":p. 710-803. Bound in tan paper boards ; printed paper label on spine. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. 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Groton Junction, Mass Classes of Men $25 Jan 3 Providence, RI No 4 Wit and Humor Sixteen lectures on "Natural History of the Jan 4 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Intellect," Harvard University. Probably $340, which is what he received for the same course Jan 9 Providence, RI No 5 Immortality in 1871. Jan 13 Andover, Mass Immortality $35 Apr 26 Cambridge, Mass No 1 Introduc- Jan 17 Buffalo, NY (Young Men's Associa- tion; Praise of Mind tion) Homes and Hospitality $100 Apr 28 Cambridge, Mass No 2 Transcend- Jan 18 Detroit, Mich (Young Men's Associa- ency of Physics tion) Readings $50 Apr 29 Cambridge, Mass No 3 Perception Jan 19 Detroit, Mich (Young Men's Associa- tion) Books $100 May 3 Cambridge, Mass No 4 Perception Jan 23 Boston, Mass (Church of Disciples) May 5 Cambridge, Mass No 5 Memory Chivalry $100 May 6 Cambridge, Mass No 6 Memory Jan 30 Providence, RI No 6 American Hos- pitality or Fortune of the Republic May 10 Cambridge, Mass No 7 Imagination Feb 3 Boston, Mass Speech at meeting for May 12 Cambridge, Mass No 8 Inspiration organizing Museum of Fine Arts May 13 Cambridge, Mass No 9 Genius Seventeen lectures on "Natural History of the May 17 Cambridge, Mass No 10 Common Intellect," Boylston Hall, Harvard Unversity, Sense Cambridge. $340 May 19 Cambridge, Mass No 11 Identity Feb 14 Cambridge, Mass No 1 General May 20 Cambridge, Mass No 12 Metres of Feb 15 Salem, Mass (Lyceum) Homes and Mind Hospitality $35 May 24 Cambridge, Mass No 13 Metres of Feb 17 Cambridge, Mass No 2 Transcend- Mind ency of Physics May 26 Cambridge, Mass No 14 Platonists Feb 21 Cambridge, Mass No 3 May 31 Cambridge, Mass No 15 Conduct Feb 24 Cambridge, Mass No 4 Memory of Intellect Part I Jun 2 Cambridge, Mass No 16 Relation of Feb 28 Cambridge, Mass No 5 Imagination Intellect to Morals Mar 3 Cambridge, Mass No 6 Memory Part ?Nov 15 Westford, Mass Social Aims II [Note Opportunities for G.B.Dorr to interact I R.W.E.] Chronological List 47 Mar 7 Cambridge, Mass No 7 Inspiration Four lectures at Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md. $400. For newspaper reports, see Mr. Mar 10 Cambridge, Mass No 8 Common Emerson Lectures at the Peabody Institute, Sense Baltimore, Md. 1949. For Whitman's dissatis- faction with the lectures, see Rusk VI 193 Mar 12 Boston, Mass (Horticultural Hall) Rule of Life $50 1872 Mar 14 Cambridge, Mass No 9 Wit and Humor Jan 2 Baltimore, Má No 1 Imagination and Poetry Mar 17 Cambridge, Mass No 10 Genius Jan 4 Baltimore, Md No 2 Resources and Mar 21 Cambridge, Mass No 11 Demon- Inspiration ology Jan 7 Washington, D C (Howard University) Mar 24 Cambridge, Mass No 12 Poetry What Books to Read Mar 28 Cambridge, Mass No 13 Metres Jan 9 Baltimore, Md No 3 Homes and Hos- pitality Mar 31 Cambridge, Mass No 14 Metres Jan 11. Baltimore, Md No 4 Art and Nature Apr 3 Cambridge, Mass No 15 Will and Conduct of the Intellect Jan 14 (Sunday) West Point, NY Immor- tality $100 Apr 5 Cambridge, Mass No 16 Conduct of the Intellect Jan 15 New Brunswick, NJ (YMCA) At- tractive Homes $100 Apr 7 Cambridge, Mass No 17 Relation of Intellect and Morals Jan 16 Washington, DC (GAR course) Great- ness or Homes and Hospitality $100 Four lectures at San Francisco, Calif $500 ?Jan 30 Concord, Mass (Social Circle) Apr 23 San Francisco, Calif No 1 Immor- tality Feb 7 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Immortality Apr 26 San Francisco, Calif (Unitarian Mar 22 Boston, Mass (Mrs J. T. Fields' 'At Church) No 2 Society in America Home') Mary Moody Emerson Apr 29 San Francisco, Calif (Unitarian ?Mar 23 Boston, Mass (Mrs Irving's home) Church) No-3 Resources Social Aims May 1 San i Francisco, Calif No 4 Greatness PApr 1 Boston, Mass (Woman's Club) In spiration May 17 San Francisco, Calif (Unitarian Church) Chivalry (from reading course?) Six private "conversations" on literature, Me- chanic's Hall, Boston. $1457 net May 18 Oakland, Calif (Brayton Hall) Hos- pitality $50 Apr 15 Boston, Mass No 1 Books J Aug 15 Boston, Mass (Mass Historical So- Apr 22? Boston, Mass No 2 Poetry and Im- ciety) Walter Scott at Scott anniversary agination Nov 27 Chicago, Ill Nature and Art $250 Apr 29? Boston, Mass No 3 Poetry and In Dec 1 Quincy, Ill Art and Nature $100 spiration Dec 2 Quincy, III "Readings" May 6 Boston, Mass No 4 Criticism Dec 3 (Sunday) Quincy, Ill Immortality May 13 Boston, Mass No 5 Culture Dec 5 Springfield, Ill Greatness $46 May 14 Lowell, Mass (Channing Society) In- spiration $30 Dec 8 Dubuque, Iowa Greatness $75 May 20 Boston, Mass No 6 Morals and Re- Dec 9 Dubuque, Iowa No 2 "Readings" ligion Dec 10 (Sunday) Dubuque, Iowa (Univer- Jul 10 Amherst, Mass (Amherst College So- salist Church) Immortality cial Union) Greatness of the Scholar $50 Emerson's Ameri- 48 Emerson's American Lecture Engagements 1872, continued ?Jul 1 Buckton, Va Oct 15 New York (Delmonico's) Speech at Nov 8 Boston, Mass Speech at meeting of dinner for J. A. Froude, given by his pub- Latin School Association on Anniversary lishers, Scribner, Armstrong & Co 1873 1877 ?Oct 1 Concord, Mass Speech at opening of Feb 14 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Natural Monroe Public Library Forces 1874 Apr 16 Boston, Mass Boston May 12 Cambridge, Mass (Harvard Divinity School) Lecture 1878 1875 Feb 6 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Fortune of the Republic Feb 10 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Feb 25. Boston, Mass Fortune of the Re- Mar 18 Philadelphia, Pa Oratory and Ora- public tors $300 Managed by the Redpath Lecture Agency 1879 Apr 19 Concord, Mass Speech at unveiling of statue of Minute-man Mar 5 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Memory May 26 Boston, Mass (Mrs Sargent's) A Mar 19 Amherst, Mass (Amherst College) reading The Superlative or Mental Temperance Jun 30 New Hampton, NH (Institute) $100 ?May 5 Cambridge, Mass (Divinity School Jul 1 New Hampton, NH (Institute) Speech Chapel) The Preacher at Commencement 1876 1880 ?Mar? Lexington, Mass Feb 4 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Historic Notes, Life and Letters in Massachusetts Mar 1 Concord, Mass (Lyceum) Boston The Lyceum records state that at this, "his Jun 28 Richmond, Va (Literary Societies of 100th lecture before the Lyceum," the audience rose enmasse to receive him. University of Virginia) The Natural and Permanent Functions of the Scholar Because Emerson could not be heard clearly, 1881 the student audience was noisy. In addition, rude comments in the press made this, one of Emer- son's few appearances in the South, something of Feb 10 Boston, Mass (Mass Hist Soc) Carlyle a distressing occasion. See Rusk VI 294-295, and Unable to write the address, he used a letter Hoeltje's articles cited there. he wrote in 1848, and journals. 2/16/07. Julia R. Anagnos. Photosophia Quaestor: at sapp. Days in Consord Boston : D.hothrop + Co., 1885. Shekan of 2 scasons of the Philles yoke al 5 cheral of thoup egas of as young guil 1893-84, 1884 she upen to a the EnersonSeason." May references to Rs.Elizobath Peal ady they Nestoria" Wm Chanvat. Encesonis Anewea Lacture Engagents: A Chronolyzist List N.Y: N.Y. Rublic Libran, 1961. p.5 Emerson was the least comprehensible of all magn Annuean writen you of all lacturers," Yet in can "not of the most popular of all 'litury' lecturers, betone at the most popular of all lecturers." Invited energy + repeatedly invited back. 1833- 1881, 1,469 lectures in 22 state + Counder in 283 towns. Mae in (899) in 100 toreno, rent NewYor ,41 where 157 lectures given On Dcc. 29, 1853 he May have her lactory in Sheeham has follows Dec. 23 Atf tie New York History QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Vol. XXXIX July 1958 No. 3 P.215-37 EMERSON IN THE ADIRONDACKS PAUL F. JAMIESON A PAINTING owned by the public library of Concord, Massachusetts, depicts the most remarkable group of wits, scholars, and geniuses ever gathered in a single recess of the Adirondack forest.t Erect and tall in the mid- morning shadows, they look almost as heroic as the huge trunks of the virgin forest in which they stand. And why not? They were members of Boston's society of immortals, the Saturday Club, in Boston's golden day. ¹ The camping adventure thus represented took place one hundred years ago, in August, 1858. "Camp Maple," James Russell Lowell named it, after the maple grove that canopied their shelter, but the guides dubbed it "Philosophers' Camp,") and SO it *Dr. Jamieson, a graduate of Drake University with a master's from Columbia and a doctorate from Cornell, is an associate professor of English at St. Lawrence University. His favorite recreations are hiking and canoeing in the Adirondacks. A member of the Adirondack Mountain Club, he is a contributor to its journal and to that of the Appalachian Mountain Club, as well as to professional journals. +This painting by William J. Stillman, reproduced herewith through the courtesy of the Concord Free Public Library, will be shown at Fenimore House, Cooperstown, N. Y., from June 14 through September 15, 1958, in the exhibition of "Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York." It is scheduled to be exhibited elsewhere in New York State, with the other paintings in that group, at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, September 26-October 21; the Albany Institute of History and Art, October 30-November 20; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, November 3-December 31, 1958; the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, January 4-January 25, 1959; and at The New-York Historical Society, in New York City, during the month of February, 1959. 215 EMERSON IN THE ADIRONDACKS 2 The figures in Stillman's painting are identified in a letter written by Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, to Mrs. William J. Stillman, on Sunday, February 21st, printed in A. L. Donaldson's A His- tory of the Adirondacks (1921), I, 186-187. Short biographical sketches of each of the campers may be found in Donaldson's History, I, 172-189. William J. Stillman (1828-1901), born in Schenectady of New England parents, is the subject of several recent studies: as an "American Pre-Raphael- ite" in David Howard Dickason's Daring Young Men (Bloomington, Ind., 1953), chaps. 4, 5, 19; as a "worthy" of Union College, class of 1848, in pamplet Number Twelve of Union Worthies (Schenectady, 1957) ; and as artist, woodsman, and author in an engaging article by Ida G. Everson, "William J. Stillman: Emerson's 'Gallant Artist' " in the New England Quarterly, XXXI (March 1958), 32-46. Quoting from hitherto unpublished letters, Professor Everson deals in part with Stillman's camping trips in the Adirondacks. 3 The Philosophers' Camp," Century Magazine, XXIV (August, 1893), 599. 4 Journals, VIII, 443. 5 Published in the volume May-day and Other Pieces, 1867. All verse quotations in this paper, except as othewise noted, are from this poem as printed in The Complete Works, ed. Edward Waldo Emerson (Centenary edition, Boston, 1903-1904) IX, 182-194. 6 Works, I, 220. 7 Journals, V, 444. 8 Emerson in Concord (Boston, 1889), pp. 63-64. 9 Journals, VI, 383. 10 "Resources," Works, VIII, 142 11 "Thus the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity." Works, XI, 534-535. 12 Works, III, 183. 13 For an account of the camping trip of 1857, see the chapter "The Subjective of It," in W. J. Stillman's Old Rome and the New and Other Studies (London, 1897) 232-264. The following chapter in the same book, "The Philosophers' Camp," is in part a reprint of Stillman's magazine article of the same title in the Century Magazine, August, 1893, previously quoted, in footnote 3. 14 See Donaldson, I, 177. The spelling "Follensby" follows that of the U.S Geological Survey map. For Emerson it was "Follansbee Water." 15 The dates of the fortnight's excursion, not given in the standard life of Emerson, by R. L. Rusk, are here reconstructed from the evidence of Emerson's letters, a letter from Judge Hoar to his wife (hereafter quoted) the reprint of a news story from the Essex County Republican of Keeseville in the Daily Times of Burlington, Vt., August 18, 1858, and a notice of the return to Boston in the Boston Daily Advertiser, August 23, 1858, Donaldson in his History of the Adirondacks (I, 172) is in error in saying that the camping trip took place in July, 1858. The party left Boston (except for Stillman, who had gone earlier to make arrangements) on August 2, a Monday, and returned to Boston on Tuesday, August 17. After a leisurely journey with stop-overs, they reached Follensby Pond on August 6 or 7 and broke camp eight or nine days later. 16 This story is told by Stillman in his article in the Century, XXIV, 598, and in slightly different words in his Autobiography of a Journalist (Boston, 1901) I, 244-245. 17 "Louis Agassiz, professor of natural history, of Cambridge, Mass., J. Wyman, J. Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hon. E. R. Hoar, and several other distinguished scientific and literary savants passed through our village 235 PHILOSOPHERS' CAMP IN THE ADIRONDACKS By William James Stillman (1828-1901) Painting owned by the Concord (Massachusetts) Free Public Library des Plantes and a senatorship, if he would come to Paris and live. Such AT GOOD- an incredible and disinterested love for America and science in our SPEED'S THE MONTH hemisphere had lifted Agassiz into an elevation of popularity which was beyond all scientific or political dignity, and the selectmen of the AT GOODSPEED'S BOOK SHOP town appointed a deputation to welcome Agassiz and his friends to the region. A reception was accorded, and they came, having taken 18 Beacon Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts care to provide themselves with an engraved portrait of the scientist, to guard against a personation and waste of their respects. The head of the deputation, after having carefully compared Agassiz to the en- graving, turned gravely to his followers and said, "Yes, it's him" and VOL. XVIII, NO. 6 MARCH, 1947 they proceeded with the same gravity to shake hands in their order, ignoring all other luminaries. A conversational catalogue of books, prints, paintings. and autographs. Pub- Stillman had hoped to bring Longfellow and Dr. Holmes lished nine times each year, from October to June. NORMAN L. DODGE, Editor also, but Longfellow hastily declined when he heard that Emerson planned to take along a gun ("Then somebody will be shot!" said Longfellow), and Holmes knew that he EMERSON IN THE ADIRONDACKS would be more at home in the shadow of the State House A MANUSCRIPT POEM than under the pines. The Doctor was wise. Stillman led his T HIS time we are going to be unorthodox, for us, and party from Saranac by water to a "deep cul de sac of lake on put the horse before the cart. It isn't the Quaker's horse. a stream that leads nowhere." At Follansbee Pond he had Dismounting, let us explain that we have the manuscript of built a shelter of spruce bark, in front wide open to the Ralph W (do Emerson's poem, "The Adirondacs," which campfire. The beds were a judicious mixture of boughs of was printed in May-Day and Other Pieces in 1867. It con- spruce and arbor vitae. There the campers explored and sists of twenty-five quarto pages in Emerson's hand (for the loafed, fished, shot at a mark for sport or at deer for prov- statistically minded, about 350 lines or 2,800 words), the last ender, or botanized, or dissected. Each was there to enjoy two pages being apparent in our illustration. At the bottom himself in his own fashion, and there were eight guides to of the left-hand page you may decipher a pencilled note to keep the tenderfeet from getting lost. the printer: "Twelve lines are to be added here." On the And of all tenderfeet in the wilderness, who at first thought right-hand page, on paper of a different color from the rest could be more tender than Waldo Emerson? True, he had of the MS., are the lines in question-the twelve grown to tramped many a mile with his young friend, Henry Thoreau, fourteen, headed "Conclusion of Adirondacs," and signed in the amiable woods and meadows of Concord. but the by the author, "R. W. Emerson." Adirondacks of the fifties were of sterner stuff. It does This is the manuscript which Emerson sent to the printer. seem a strange place to find Emerson, in a red flannel shirt, It contains numerous corrections, those fascinating changes one of "ten scholars, wonted to lie warm and soft" but here which reveal the process of composition, and several dele- faced with "hard fare, hard bed and comic misery." tions. In one instance Emerson's pen stroked out ten lines Actually Emerson comported himself very well in the which intervened between the lines (as printed), "Beckon woods. Though perhaps a little surprised to find himself so the wanderer to his vaster home" and "With a vermilion far off the Walden road, he was amused at his boldness. He pencil mark the day." Sometime within a decade of its com- was pleased with camp life and pleased at his own pleasure. position the twenty-five pages of manuscript were bound in He was neither a glutton for solitude like Thoreau nor a half morocco. In a corner of the binder's fly leaf, in pencil, city slicker like Doctor Holmes. He would go into the woods [ 143 ] [ 145 ] for his thoughts but he believed that poets and philoso- THE is the inscription "L. W. J. from A. F. Christmas, 1868." It MONTH THE MONTH phers should live in man's world and "be men instead of seems a good guess that "A. F." was Annie Fields, wife of woodchucks." He took seriously this opportunity to adjust Emerson's publisher, and a charming and distinguished his poetic imagination to nature's reality and he delighted woman. The superb manuscript of a long Emerson poem- to observe the styles and skills of unsophisticated woods- $750. men. In the woods he saw city values turned upside down. To change the figure, the above is the kite. The tail flut- In "The Adirondacs" he wrote: ters below. Look to yourselves, ye polished gentlemen! Emerson called "The Adirondacs" a journal "dedicated No city airs or arts pass current here. to my fellow travellers in August 1858." The poem describes Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth the adventures in that season of one of the most select and Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls: remarkable of "clubs" in this our nation of club-makers. They are the doctors of the wilderness, Most instrumental in forming the Adirondack Club was the And we the low-prized laymen. man described in Emerson's poem as What else he saw and thought he into the poem. "The Stillman, our guides' guide, and Commodore, Adirondacs" is not the greatest of Emerson, not all flint and Crusoe, Crusader, Pious Aeneas. incandescence, but it was written in a warm and friendly it He was William James Stillman, artist, journalist, critic, pitch for which one acquires a taste as one goes along. In and diplomat- remarkable man. If today his name is un- see the poet askance, sometimes pedestrian, sometimes familiar it may be for the reason implicit in his obit in the you as droll as one of his conversations with a chickadee. And London Times: "Perhaps his material prosperity and suc- there's many a fine bit, as cess might have been more signal had his tastes and gifts the procession of the pines. been fewer." He was also, for a cosmopolitan, an excellent Stillman wrote of the poem "Knowing that all he saw in woodsman. In this capacity he formed the Adirondack this undefiled natural world that all this was the mask Club. (He was a Schenectady boy.) The roster was short and of things, he was ever on the watch if perchance he might shining-Louis Agassiz, James Russell Lowell, Judge E. R. catch some hint of the secret-secret never to be discovered, Hoar (later Grant's attorney-general), Dr. Jefferies Wyman, and therefore more passionately sought. This seems to me Dr. Estes Howe, John Holmes (brother of Dr. O. W. H.), contained in "The Adirondacs' as in no other work of the Horatio Woodman, Dr. Amos Binney Samuel G. Ward (close friend of Emerson), and Ralph Waldo Emerson him- philosopher.' The poem ends with the lines you may read self. on the right-hand page of our reproduction of the original In August, 1858, Stillman guided his distinguished party manuscript. The printed version has a line which is an im- into the wild Adirondacks of the decade before William provement on the manuscript "Burned in each heart re- H.H. Murray wrote his tales of that "wilderness." In '58 it membrance of home," which was changed to read: was indeed a wilderness, and the going was rough. When Under the cinders burned the fires of home. the natives of the region heard of what was afoot they turned Our manuscript continues: out to greet the celebrity-no Emerson, not Lowell, not Nay, letters found us in our paradise: the great botanist or doctor or lawyer, but Agassiz, So in the gladness of the new event who [wrote Stillman in his Autobiography] had become famous in We struck our camp and left the happy hills. the commonplace world through having refused, not long before, an The fortunate star that rose on us sank not; offer from the Emperor of the French of the keepership of the Jardin [ 146 ] [ 144 ] 3100 University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Contents Copyright © 2003 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Omega Clay http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writ- Photographs follow page 110 ing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not Introduction ix been possible to reach. Chronology xxxiii Letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Harriet Baring, from Jane Welsh Carlyle to William Edward Foster, and from Thomas Carlyle to Harriet Baring are from vol. 22, pp. 139-44, of The Collected Letters of Tho- Amos Bronson Alcott, [A Visit to Emerson at Concord in 1837] 1 mas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Clyde de L. Ryals et al., copyright © 1995, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission. Convers Francis, [Remarks on Emerson in 1838, 1855, and 1858] 3 [Emerson as Remembered by His Children] is taken from Edith Emerson Webster Gregg, "Emerson and Ellis Gray Loring, [A Visit from Emerson in 1838] 10 His Children: Their Childhood Memories," Harvard Library Bulletin 28 (October 1980), copyright C 1980 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. [Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord [At Concord with the Emersons in 1842] is taken from Joel Myerson, "Margaret Fuller's 1842 Journal: in the 1840s] 12 At Concord with the Emersons," Harvard Library Bulletin 21 (July 1973), copyright © 1973 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Richard Frederick Fuller, "The Younger Generation in 1840 from Quote from James Russell Lowell's 18 July 1867 letter to C.E. Norton is used by permission of the the Diary of a New England Boy" 16 Houghton Library, Harvard University. [Margaret Fuller], [At Concord with the Emersons in 1842] 21 Herman Melville's letter to Evert A. Duyckinck is from The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writ- ings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth, copyright © 1993 by Northwestern University Press. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle, [A Visit from Emerson Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations are from the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century in 1847] 28 American Literature, University of South Carolina, and are reproduced here with permission. Anonymous, "Emerson as a Lecturer" (1849) 33 The publication of this book was generously supported by the University of Iowa Foundation. Printed on acid-free paper Herman Melville, [Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck about Emerson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data as a Lecturer] (1849) 35 Emerson in his own time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and Fredrika Bremer, From The Homes of the New World; Impressions memoirs by family, friends, and associates/edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. of America (1853) 38 p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], "Mr. Emerson's Lectures" (1864) 42 ISBN 0-87745-841-3 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-842-1 (pbk) 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. 2. Authors, American-19th century-Biography. 3. Tran- [George William Curtis], [Emerson as Seen from the "Editor's scendentalists (New England)-Biography. I. Bosco, Ronald A. II. Myerson, Joel. Easy Chair" in 1865] 46 PS1631 .E54 2003 814'.3-dc21 Anonymous, "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1865) 49 [B] 2002035379 03 04 05 06 07 C 5 James Russell Lowell, From My Study Windows (1871) 53 03 04 05 06 07 P [vl EMERSON IN HIS OWN TIME Chronology 1814 11 March Ordained at Second Church 14 April Mary Caroline Emerson dies 1 July Promoted to pastor 1817 30 September Marries Ellen Tucker October Enters Harvard College 1830 1818 12 December Edward goes to Puerto Rico for his health; returns briefly to January Begins teaching school on occasion at Waltham Boston in August 1832 1821 1831 29 August Graduates from Harvard College 8 February Ellen Louisa Tucker Emerson dies of tuberculosis October Assists brother William in a school for young ladies 7 December Charles goes to Puerto Rico for his health; returns 1 May 1832 1822 1832 November "Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages," RWE's first 6 October Edward returns to Puerto Rico for his health publication, appears in the Christian Disciple and Theo- 22 December Sends farewell letter to Second Church, resigning his position logical Review 25 December Sails for Europe 1833 1823 5 December Takes over William's school when he leaves for study in 26 August Meets Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle Germany 7 October Returns to America 1824 5 November Delivers first public lecture, "The Uses of Natural History," in April Begins formally studying religion Boston 31 December Closes school 3 December William Emerson marries Susan Woodward Haven 1825 1834 11 February Registers as a student of divinity at Harvard March Meets Lydia Jackson of Plymouth 12 September Opens school at Chelmsford; closes it at end of the year 13 May Receives partial inheritance ($11,600) from Ellen Emerson's 1826 estate 3 January Takes over Edward's school in Roxbury when he leaves for 1 October Edward dies of tuberculosis in Puerto Rico Europe; closes it on 28 March 9 October Moves to Concord 1 April Opens school in Cambridge; closes it on 23 October 1835 10 October Approbated by American Unitarian Association to preach 24 January Proposes to Lydia Jackson; announces engagement at end of 25 November Sails to Charleston, South Carolina, and St. Augustine, the month Florida, to improve health 29 January Begins first lecture series-on Biography-in Boston 1827 12 September Delivers discourse on Concord's history, which is published 3 June Returns to Boston in November 25 December Meets Ellen Louisa Tucker in Concord, New Hampshire 14 September Marries Lydia Jackson, whom he calls "Lidian" 1828 1836 2 July Edward is committed to McLean Asylum; released in the fall 9 May Charles dies in New York City an hour before Elizabeth Sher- 17 December Engaged to Ellen Tucker man Hoar, to whom he was engaged, and RWE arrive 9 September Nature published 1829 19 September First meeting of the Transcendental Club 30 January Becomes colleague pastor at Second Church, Boston [xxxiv] Txxx 1 EMERSON IN HIS OWN TIME Chronology 30 October Waldo Emerson born 1 August Delivers address on "Emancipation of the Negroes in the Brit- 8 December Begins lecture series on Philosophy of History in Boston ish West Indies" at Concord Court House; published 9 Sep- tember (and in England in October) 1837 19 October Essays: Second Series published (and in England on 9 late July Receives remainder of inheritance ($11,675) from Ellen Emer- November) son's estate 31 August Delivers address on the "American Scholar" at Harvard; pub- 1845 2 December lished 23 September Purchases forty-one acres at Walden Pond 6 December Begins lecture series on Human Culture in Boston 31 December Begins lecture series on Representative Men in Concord 1846 1838 Carlyle's Critical and Miscellaneous Essays published, edited 12 December Poems published in England (and in America on 25 December) 14 July by RWE 1847 15 July Delivers address at the Harvard Divinity School; published 21 5 October Sails for England to begin lecture tour of the British Isles August 24 July Delivers address on "Literary Ethics" at Dartmouth College; 1848 published 8 September 7 May Arrives in Paris 2 June Returns to England 1839 6 June Begins lecture series on Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth 24 February Ellen Tucker Emerson born Century in London 7 September Jones Very's Essays and Poems published, edited by RWE 27 July Returns to America 4 December Begins lecture series on The Present Age in Boston 1849 1840 1 February Begins lecture series on English Traits in Chelmsford, Massa- 20 March Begins lecture series on Human Life in Providence chusetts 1 July First issue of Dial appears 20 March First meeting of Town and Country Club 2 September Attends the last meeting of the Transcendental Club 11 September Nature; Addresses, and Lectures published 1841 1850 19 March Essays [First Series] published (and in England on 25 August) 1 January Representative Men published (and in England on 5 January) 11 August Delivers "The Method of Nature" at Waterville College, 13 May Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 28 June Maine; published 21 October 19 July Margaret Fuller dies 22 November Edith Emerson born 1851 1842 22 December Begins lecture series on Conduct of Life in Boston 27 January Waldo Emerson dies suddenly of scarlatina March Margaret Fuller resigns as editor of Dial; RWE becomes editor 1852 14 February Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli published, co-edited by 1843 RWE 10 January Begins lecture series on New England in Baltimore April Lectures in Montreal May Carlyle's Past and Present published, edited by RWE 24 November Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns mid-February 1853 1844 1853 8 April Last issue of Dial appears 16 November Ruth Haskins Emerson dies 10 July Edward Waldo Emerson born [xxxvil xxxvii 1 EMERSON IN HIS OWN TIME Chronology 1854 22 July Thoreau's Letters to Various Persons published, edited by RWE 2 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 20 February 3 October Edith Emerson marries William Hathaway Forbes 3 January Begins lecture series on Topics of Modern Times in Philadelphia 1866 16 December First meeting of the Saturday Club 9 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 20 February 1855 14 April Begins lecture series on Philosophy for the People in Boston 20 September Delivers address at the Women's Rights Convention in Boston 23 June Complete Works published in two volumes in England 29 September Delivers address at the consecration of Sleepy Hollow Ceme- 10 July Ralph Emerson Forbes, RWE's first grandchild, born tery in Concord 18 July Awarded LL.D. degree by Harvard University ca. 27 Dec. Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns late January 1856 1867 1856 8 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 22 or 23 March 6 August English Traits published (and in England on 6 September) 29 April May-Day and Other Pieces published (and in England on 8 June) 1857 17 July 8 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 10 February Appointed overseer of Harvard University 2 December Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 2 January 1868 1858 1868 3 March Begins lecture series on The Natural Method of Mental Philo- 13 September William Emerson dies sophy in Boston 1869 1859 27 October Prose Works published in two volumes in America 27 May Robert Bulkeley Emerson dies 4 December Oversees memorial services for John Brown in Boston during 1870 which he delivers a lecture on "Morals" 5 March Society and Solitude published (and in England on 5 March) 26 April Begins a course of lectures on Natural History of the Intellect 1860 at Harvard 16 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 25 February 8 December The Conduct of Life published (and in England on 8 December) 1871 14 February Begins a second course of lectures on Natural History of the 1861 Intellect at Harvard 2 April Begins lecture series on Life and Literature in Boston Edward Waldo Emerson admitted to Harvard 11 April Begins trip to California; returns 30 May 16 July 25 November Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 14 December 1862 1872 6 May Henry David Thoreau dies 15 April Begins a series of "Conversations" on literature in Boston August "Thoreau" appears in Atlantic Monthly 24 July RWE's house substantially damaged by fire 1863 23 October Travels to Europe with Ellen 2 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 7 February 25 December Arrives in Egypt 1 May Mary Moody Emerson dies 1873 10 October Thoreau's Excursions published, edited by RWE 19 February Begins lecture series on American Life in Boston Returns to Europe 27 November 27 April Sees Carlyle for the last time 1865 26 May Returns to America 11 January Begins midwestern lecture tour; returns 10 February 1 October Delivers address at opening of the Concord Free Public Library 1 xxxviii xxxix 1 EMERSON IN HIS OWN TIME 1874 19 September Edward Waldo Emerson marries Annie Shepard Keyes 19 December Parnassus published, a poetry collection edited by RWE Emerson in His Own Time 1875 15 December Letters and Social Aims published (and in England on 8 January 1876) 1876 24 June The "Little Classic Edition" of RWE's works is published in nine volumes 1878 25 February Delivers address on "Fortune of the Republic" in Boston; pub- lished 10 August 7 April Elizabeth Sherman Hoar dies 1880 4 February Delivers one hundredth lecture before the Concord Lyceum 1882 20 April Catches a cold, which develops into pneumonia 27 April Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord 30 April Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord [xl] Minuteman Library Network/Concord Page 1 of 1 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help Q 100 000 no III 000 200 M 000 III New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Concord Search Record 25 of 103 Record: Prev Next Author Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Title Emerson on education and scholars / by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Publication info. Hartford [Conn.] : Transcendental Books, c1997. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.2 Item 225 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Description 58 leaves : ill., ports ; 29 cm. Note Copyright dates stamped on the t.p. verso. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 56) and index. Local note Concord's C.PAM. copy: The Author; gift; 1997. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge -- Education. Record 25 of 103 Record: Prev Next 000 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) i Individuals. Communities. Information. The World. We bring it all together. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aCameron%2C+Kenneth+Walter%2C+1908-/acame. 11/30/2006 Liorary Page I of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 307 poor X 000 IIIO 000 220 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Concord Search Record 36 of 103 Record: Prev Next Author Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Title Emerson's Harvard years : a record of his speeches, essays, themes, and formal discussions / by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Publication info. Hartford (Box A, Station A, Hartford 06126) : Transcendental Books, c1996. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.2 Item 228 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Description 43 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Local note Concord's C.PAM. copy: gift of Kenneth Walter Cameron. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge and learning. Harvard University -- History -- 19th century. Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography. Authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- History -- 19th century Biography. College students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography. 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CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 2 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject 1 Description 2 vol. ; 24 cm. Note No. 112 of edition limited to 500 copies. BAL, vol.3, p. 68, note. "Chronological list of lectures and addresses ":p. 710-803. Bound in tan paper boards ; printed paper label on spine. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. vol. Y Record 4 of 7 693-34 Record: Prev Next Copy pr 300 000 THE 000 mm New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) i http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/acabot.+james+elliot/acabot+james+elliot/1%2C1%2C... 2/4/2007 EMERSON AS A PHILOSOPHER A Chesis PRESENTED TO THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BY FRANCIS CUMMINS LOCKWOOD FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 1896 CONCOR PUBLIC LIBRAR OUTLINE. EMERSON AS A PHILOSOPHER I. THE beginning of Emerson's philosophical activity was con- s important to study Emerson in connection with the Transcendental Move- nent in New England, as he was the Controlling Spirit in this Movement. temporaneous with the inception of the transcendental movement in New England, and they cannot be studied apart. Undoubt- Influences that gave rise to New England Transcendentalism. edly he was greatly affected by this deep-sea wave of sentiment; How it came to take Definite Form. but more than its effect upon him was his influence. over it. Specific Characteristics of the Movement. He proved to be its guiding spirit; at his hand the movement Its Philosophical Implications and Affinities. eventually received its best statement; and to him reference is . Its underlying principles were not different from those of German and- almost always made when writers attempt to designate the English Transcendentalism representative man of the epoch.* b. Through Coleridge Emerson transplanted German Transcendentalism, The transcendental movement began about 1820 as a reaction as represented by Schelling, into America. against custom, institutions, and authority. The younger c. Internal evidences indicating the affinity of thought existing between thinkers of New England, having been aroused to a richer con- Emerson and Schelling scionsness of life, chiefly through the scientific and philosophical is precisely the views and tendencies peculiar to New England Tran- deliverances of Goethe, the. presentation by Edward Everett, scendentalism that are set forth in Emerson's Characteristic Works. Andrews Norton, and N. L. Frothingham of some of the phases An Analysis of Nature." of contemporaneons German philosophy, and the progress of b. Of his Philosophical Poems. modern science-in particular, the sciences of astronomy and c. Of his Philosophical Essays. geology-made an effort to break away from tradition and to d Of "The Natural History of Intellect." return to normal, natural methods of thought and life. Up to: this time the sensuous philosophy of Locke had ruled the statement of Emerson's Philosophical Doctrines. thought of New England. The Essay on the Human Under- Epistemology. standing continued to be used as a text-book at Harvard until: Ontology. 1817, at which time it was superseded by the Scotch philosophy. Cosmology. The works of Paley were tlen introduced as text-books, and Psychology. the views of this author were authoritative up to the year 1836. Ethics. O. B. Frothingham, Transcendentalism in New England, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1876, pp. 115, 142; G. W. Cooke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., ical Estimate of Emerson as a Philosopher. Boston and New York, 1892, pp. 53-58; James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1890, vol. 1, pp. 350, 351, 365-368; James Ellot Cabot, He may justly be termed a Philosopher. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Houghton, Miffin & Co., Boston and New York, Standard for Estimating him. 1887, vol. ip. 251, vol. if, p. 412; O. W. Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emergon, Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1885. p. 5: Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Value of his Thought. Transcendentalism." tG. W. Cooke, npus cit., pp. 55-57. A's moral and intellectual inspiration. # George Ripley and George P. Bradford, The Memorial History of Boston, James R. As philosophical poetry. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1881, vol. iv, chap. 11f, pp. 296-302: Friedrich Ueberweg. A History of Philosophy, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892, vol. 11, pp. 450-454 Ralph Waldo #From a strictly rational standpoint Emerson, Two Unpublished Essays, Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Boston and New York, 1896. Introduction, p. 5 ; G. W. Cooke, opus cit., p. 52. Myerson, Joel, An Emerson Celebration, 56:2 (1983:June) p. .275 NEW ENGLAND QUACTERLY. ESSAY REVIEWS 275-285. fate. "19 Like their creator, Cheever's characters seek the light in the sky that evokes the ancient light within. John W. Crowley is Professor of English at Syracuse University and coeditor of the recently published THE HAUNTED DUSK: AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL FICTION, 1820-1920. AN EMERSON CELEBRATION JOEL MYERSON The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emer- son. Volume 15, 1860-1866. Edited by Linda Allardt and David W. Hill; Associate Editor, Ruth H. Bennett. (Cambridge: Har- Concord vard University Press. 1982. Pp. xxiii, 591. Appendixes. $40.00.) The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emer- no son. Volume 16, 1866-1882. Edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Glen f trory M. Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1982. Pp. xxviii, 596. Appendixes. $45.00.) I'L Emerson in His Journals. Selected and edited by Joel Porte. (Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press. 1982. Pp. xvii, 588. $25.00.) The House of Emerson. By Leonard Neufeldt. (Lincoln: Univer- sity of Nebraska Press. 1982. Pp. 272. $19.95.) ILL Emerson: Prospect and Retrospect. Edited by Joel Porte. (Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press. 1982. Pp. vii, 197. $16.50.) During 1982, the year in which the centenary of the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson was observed, no less than thirteen books dealing with Emerson appeared. The centenary year was ushered in with Gay Wilson Allen's Waldo Emerson: A Biography (Viking, 1981), quickly followed in 1982 by Mrs. Edith E. W. Gregg's two- volume edition of The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson (Kent State), Mary A. Ihrig's Emerson's Transcendental Vocabulary: A Concordance (Garland), Jerome Loving's Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse (North Carolina), my own Emerson Centenary Essays (Southern Illinois) and Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Descrip- tive Bibliography (Pittsburgh), B. L. Packer's Emerson's Fall: A 19 Brooks, New England: Indian Summer, p. 477. Copyright (c) 2002 ProQuest Information and Learning Company Copyright (c) New England Quarterly Kenneth Walter Cameron collection of material relating primarily to Ralph Waldo Emers Page 1 of 42 KENNETH WALTER CAMERON COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING PRIMARILY TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1811-1985 HOME OF HALPH WALDO EMERSON Listen 2/14/07. cleak 4.13 Box Nicale. Nor for ETTY 1403. skilful by my at the books first page could we turn the teaf w.Emerson 60514 Vault A35, R.W. Emerson, Unit 4 EXTENT: 2 linear feet (two record cartons) ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Nine series: I. Bibliography; II. Biography; III. Book reviews; IV. Kenneth W. Cameron writings; V. Criticism; VI. Emerson centennial; VII. Emerson family; VIII. Emerson writings; IX. Dialogue (a Concord periodical). BIOGRAPHY: Kenneth Walter Cameron was born October 12, 1908 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, eldest son of Albert Ernest (1885-1938) and Zoe (1890-1957) Cameron. Educated at West Virginia University, General Theological Seminary, and Yale University (Ph. D., 1940), he was ordained an Episcopal minister in 1935. Dr. Cameron's academic career began as an instructor of English at North Carolina State University (1938 to 1943). After teaching briefly at Temple University, he became Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1946. A distinguished Emersonian, he was a leading authority on the American Transcendental movement and authored and edited numerous articles and books on Emerson, Thoreau, and their contemporaries. He served as editor for both American Transcendental Quarterly and Emerson Society Quarterly. Kenneth Cameron died Feb. 8, 2006. SCOPE AND CONTENT: Material dating from 1811 (photocopy of an original printed item) to 1985, generated and collected by Kenneth Walter Cameron, relating primarily to the life, writings, and influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The collection also includes items relating to Alcott, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Carlyle, Melville, Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, Charles Sumner, Goethe, Swedenborg, Nietzsche, and George Santayana, as well as a body of criticism by Clarence Hotson. The Emerson centennial in 1903 and the Emerson family form additional subject strengths. A significant proportion of the collection consists of items edited or written by Professor Cameron. http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/CameronKenneth.htm 2/14/2007 Kenneth Walter Cameron collection of material relating primarily to Ralph Waldo Emers Page 2 of 42 The bulk of the collection is made up of articles extracted from periodicals and newspapers, or provided in reprint, offprint, photocopy, or transcript, and of chapters or sections of books in original, photocopied, or transcribed form. The collection also includes bibliographies, exhibition catalogs, auction lists, book reviews, and proof sheets, among other types of materials. SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: Gift of Kenneth Walter Cameron (date of donation unrecorded). OVERLAPPING HOLDINGS: The extensive Ralph Waldo Emerson section of the CFPL's Concord Pamphlet Collection includes much material similar to, and in some instances overlapping with, that in the Cameron Collection. The library also holds complete runs of American Transcendental Quarterly (ATQ), Emerson Society Quarterly (ESQ), some of the other periodicals from which items in the collection have been extracted, most of Kenneth Cameron's published compilations, and (in the Concord Authors Collection) many of the books represented by extracted chapters or sections in the Cameron Collection. Search the data base of the Minuteman Library Network by author, title, subject, or keyword for similar and overlapping holdings in other CFPL collections. PROCESSING NOTES: Processed by Sheryl Peters; finding aid completed Feb. 2006; preliminary processing by Bette Aschaffenburg. In the processing of this collection, only a very limited attempt has been made to supply bibliographical information missing from periodical articles and other extracted items, and to verify information provided by Kenneth Cameron. Page numbers for periodical articles have not been included consistently. SERIES AND SUBSERIES LISTING: I. Bibliography II. Biography a. General b. Emerson in Concord c. Emerson in Europe d. The lecture circuit III. Book reviews IV. Kenneth W. Cameron writings a. Correspondence b. Publications http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/CameronKenneth.htm 2/14/2007 Kenneth Walter Cameron collection of material relating primarily to Ralph Waldo Emers Page 3 of 42 V. Criticism a. Criticism-Comparative b. Criticism-Influence c. Criticism--Topical d. Criticism-Writings e. Criticism-Clarence Hotson f. Foreign language criticism and interpretation VI. Emerson centennial VII. Emerson family VIII. Emerson writings a. Journals b. Letters C. Other specific writings IX. Dialogue (a Concord periodical) CONTAINER LIST I. Bibliography: Box 1, Folder 1: Allen, Robert V., "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in: Russian Studies of American Literature: A Bibliography (Chapel Hill, 1969), pp. 77-78 (photocopy). Harvard University Press publisher's booklist, American Literature and Letters, featuring Emerson in His Journals (Joel Porte, ed.). "Additional Writings on Mr. Emerson." "Emerson and Carlyle" (typescript). "Emerson" (photocopy). http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/CameronKenneth.htm 2/14/2007 Minuteman Library Network/Concord Page 1 of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 100 000 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR emerson ralph waldo 1803 1882 Concord Search Limited to:Words in the TITLE "Journals" Record: Prev Next Author Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Title Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 / ed. by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes. Publication info. Cambridge : Riverside Press, 1909-1914. Location Call No. Status CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 7 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 6 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 8 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 9 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 10 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 5 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 4 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 3 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 2 CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, author 1 Description 10 V. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aemerson+ralph+waldo+1803+1882/aemerson+ralph... 1/16/2007 "EMPIRES OF FORM": THE EMERSON BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE April 25-26, 2003 Born in 1803, the son of a minister, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave up his own career in the pulpit at 29, eventually beco most important American essayist and lecturer of the 19th century. Two hundred years after his birth, this conference ognize his accomplishments through a close examination of his life and work. To provide the maximum opportunity for discussion, all papers will be available in advance at the Society's website one who preregisters for the program. Registrants may receive the essays by mail for an additional fee. The papers W read aloud. Program sessions will consist of brief statements by the essayists, remarks by assigned commentators, an sion from the floor. There is a registration fee of $60.00 ($35.00 for students). Please add $15.00 to receive the papers by mail. Regis open but limited by the capacity of the facilities. To avoid disappointment, you are strongly urged to register as soon ble. To register or for more information, contact Seth Vose, Massachusetts Historical Society, II54 Boylston Street, Bos 02215. Telephone: 617-646-0518. E-mail: svose@masshist.org. FRIDAY, APRIL 25 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:15 Welcome (Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson, and others) 9:15-II:00 Panel I: The Construction of Emerson Commentator: Sterling F. Delano (Villanova University) Lawrence Buell (Harvard University): "Rethinking Emerson in an Age of Globalization" Robert D. Habich (Ball State University): "Building Their Own Waldo: Holmes, Cabot, Edward Em and the Challenges of Biography in the 1880s" Robert N. Hudspeth (University of Redlands): "The Conduct of Life and 'Later Emerson" II:00-II:I5 Break II:I5-I:00 Panel II: Emerson the Reformer Commentator: Linck C. Johnson (Colgate University) Phyllis Cole (Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County): "The New Movement's Tide: Emerso Women's Rights" T. Gregory Garvey (State University of New York, College at Brockport): "The Issue of Association fc Emerson and Garrison" Len Gougeon (University of Scranton): "The Legacy of Reform: Emersonian Idealism and the Civil I Movement" Panel III: Emerson the Poet Commentators: Douglas Emory Wilson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ralph H. Orth (University of Vermont, emeritus) Robert E. Burkholder (Pennsylvania State University): "(Re)Visting 'The Adirondacs': Emerson's Confrontation with Wild Nature" Joseph M. Thomas (Pace University): "Poverty and Power: Revisiting Emerson's Poetics" Thomas Wortham (University of California, Los Angeles): "Emerson's Changing Views on Poetry" 1:00-2:30 Lunch (on your own) 2:30-4:30 Panel IV: Emerson and the World of Ideas I Commentator: Conrad Wright (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus) Wesley T. Mott (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): "The Power of Recurring to the Sublime at Pleasur Emerson and Feeling" Susan Robertson (Alabama State University): "Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliar The Example of the Sermon" David Robinson (Oregon State University): "Experience, Instinct, and Emerson's Philosophical Reorientation" URDAY, APRIL 26 IO:I5 Panel V: Emerson's Audience Commentator: Helen R. Deese (The Journals of Caroline Healey Dall) Robert D. Richardson, Jr.: "Emerson and William James" Nancy Craig Simmons (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, emerita): "Emerson's New England Lectures" Sarah Wider (Colgate University): "Chladni Patterns, Lyceum Halls, and Skillful Experimenters: Emerson's New Metaphysics for the Listening Reader" Panel VI: Emerson and the World of Ideas II Commentator: Joel Porte (Cornell University) Gustaaf Van Cromphout (Northern Illinois University): "Emerson on Language as Action" Albert J. von Frank (Washington State University): "Emerson and Gnosticism" Laura Dassow Walls (Lafayette College): "If Body Can Sing': Emerson's Scientific Naturalism" -10:30 Break 0-12:00 Panel Discussion: The Future of Emerson Studies Chair: Daniel Shealy (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Charles Capper (Boston University) Robert A. Gross (College of William & Mary) Barbara Packer (University of California, Los Angeles) Commentator: Philip F. Gura (University of North Carolina) Bus leaves for Concord -3:30 Emerson exhibition, Concord Free Public Library. Introduction by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson .5:00 Tour of the Emerson House -6:30 Reception at the Concord Museum Bus returns to Boston Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. REGISTRATION FORM ase register me for the conference "Spires of Form': The Emerson Bicentennial Conference." I enclose my check for Please send my conference confirmation to the following address: ne dress y State Zip ase check if applicable: I am a student registering at the special student rate of $35. I would like to have the papers but will not be attending the conference. Please mail me a set of the papers. I have added $15 to the registration to cover the cost of photocopying, handling, and postage. TRANSCENDENTALISM "Mind is the only reality. The real person is what he thinks. The material world is a shadow of the idea. I am only a reflection of what I think. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson On September 8, 1836, while attending Harvard's bicentennial divine within you show through. Duty is taught by the voice within. celebration, Emerson met at Willard's Hotel in Cambridge with his friends We know, when we use our highest Reason, what we ought to do. Henry Hedge, George Putnam (a Unitarian minister), and George Ripley We need no Ten Commandments for that. Men may shirk duty in to plan a symposium for people who, like themselves, found the present perilous times, but they still know what their duty is." state of thought in America unsatisfactory. They were also moved by the stale intellectual climate of Harvard and Cambridge. President Quincy The Transcendental Club's magazine, The Dial, first appeared in 1840 had his eye on the past; theirs was on the present and future. Almost two with Margaret Fuller as editor and George Ripley her assistant. Emerson weeks later, on September 19, the first meeting of what came to be known contributed and edited essays, and became its editor in 1842. Through as the Transcendental Club was born out of protest. this vehicle, he encouraged many promising thinkers and writers. His influence on the movement was central. The movement took its name from the German philosopher Kant. It held that there are moral laws which transcend man-that there are absolute truths. Beauty, goodness, wisdom are to the philosopher precisely what heat, motion, and chemical actions are to the physicist. Transcendentalists "Such is the saturation of things with the moral law, that you cannot believed that religion is a primary sentiment in human nature, not merely escape from it. You may kill the preachers of it, but innumerable dependent on certain facts of history. It is poetic, generous, devout, open to preaches survive: the violets and roses and grass preach it, rain and all the humanities and sciences, literature, and sympathies of philosophy. snow and wind and frost, moon and tides, every change and every cause in nature is nothing but a disguised missionary." Basically, they held that there are three primary ideas we know intuitively: -Ralph Waldo Emerson the ideas of God, duty, and immortality. These need no confirmation from any book or miracles, but are affirmed by humankind's own divine nature. God is not a being apart from the universe, but everywhere, especially in humans, insofar as our thoughts are infinite. As we reason, God is absolute Reason. "Stand aside," said Emerson, "and let God think-that is, let the truth -7- Concord Saunterer 16,#6 The loveliest of all laments for Thoreau is Louisa May Alcott's "Thoreau's Flute," published under the auspices of the Haw- es in the September 1863 Atlantic Monthly. It is her confident / to her father's prophecy in the April 1862 Atlantic: "And (Spy 1981): 3-22. he goes hence, then Pan is dead, and Nature ailing throughout." 11 is Dedmond, one of the most active (and accurate) Thoreau archers, adds two letters by Sophia Hawthorne to the tale. EMERSON AND HIS FRIENDS IN CONCORD. By Frank B. Sanborn. ONCORD, the home of Emerson and Alcott, of Haw- thorne and Thoreau, becomes more and more a place of pilgrimage for those who appreciate what is best, thus far, in American literature. Every day, almost, brings to that plain Massachusetts town these pilgrims from far and near,-old lovers of the place and its poets, returning to their first love, - or else new comers, who have heard of Concord, and wish to see what it is like. Who can explain the geographical mystery of genius, or measure its attractive and conse- crating force? We visit the slender and sluggish Avon winding through green meadows, among elms and willows, or twining round the base of wooded heights crowned with an old castle, or a church-tower,- yet what charms us is not the beauty of the scenery, lovely as that is, - we are drawn thither by the memory of Shakespeare, who rambled in these meadows, sailed on this stream, and made love amid these groves of oak and elm. So is it with the quiet loveliness of Concord, "Its silver lakes that unexhausted gleam, And peaceful woods beside the cottage door." We value these not SO much for their 'Then flows amain own grace and charm, as for the pleasure The surge of summer's beauty; dell and crag, they gave to Emerson and his friends, Hollow and lake, hillside and pine arcade Are touched with genius. Yonder ragged cliff who have made the name of Concord as Has thousand faces in a thousand hours. famous in America as Stratford is in Eng- land. Most of all do we think of Emerson am a willow of the wilderness, there,-since to him more than to all the Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts rest does the town owe its celebrity, and My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, by him has its landscape best been painted A quest of river grapes, a mocking thrush, in memorable words: A wild rose or rock-loving columbine Salve my worst wounds." "For me in showers, in sweeping showers the Spring These pictures, and countless more Visits the valley, break away the clouds, - from Emerson's pen, not only describe I bathe in the morn's soft and silvered air, And loiter willing by you loitering stream. the scenes amid which he lived for half a Sparrows far off, and nearer April's bird, century, but show us, by literal record or From a crayon drawing by Rowse, in the possession of Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. Blue-coated, flying before from tree to tree, glancing allusion, his whole way of life Courageous sings a delicate overture, To lead the tardy concert of the year. 1 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Emerson's Musketaquid." 2 3 though standing yet, it has been removed, great tract sometimes called Bedford Henry Thoreau's fath- after the Concord fashion, to another site, levels, where rises the Shawsheen river." er, and which he and has lost the quaint sloping roof, which Thoreau only lived in this house eight handed down to his gave it an old-world character, like the months, yet such was his memory that children. This house similar farmhouse in Torrington, Ct., he could remember a flock of ducks was purchased by where John Brown was born. This which his baby eyes rested on there. As Louisa Alcott, in 1877, "Minot house ( for Thoreau was born a child he was next brought to the village after the death of in the home of his maternal grandmother, of Concord from which his birthplace is Sophia Thoreau, the Mrs. Minot, in July, 1817,) stood on the distant more than a mile to the northeast last of the children, right hand of the " Virginia Road," as you -and in that village and its environing and it was the home come from Lexington to Concord by that woods, he lived nearly all his life. He of the Alcott family route, an old-fashioned, winding, at died in the Alcott-Thoreau house on the for nearly ten years. length deserted pathway." Channing calls village street, half-way between the river Mrs. Alcott died there "the more smiling for its forked bank and the Fitchburg railroad, in May, in October, 1877, and orchards, tumbling walls; and mossy 1862. The trees around this house, as Mr. Alcott was there attacked in October, 1882, with the par- alytic stroke from which he never fully recovered. He left this house in 1886, and died in Boston, March, 1888. The house stands on the south side of the street, facing the north, and directly opposite, dur- ing Thoreau's lifetime, stood the house of El- lery Channing, whose garden ran to the river bank and there under a rank of tall willows, View from Eastern Hill. Thoreau kept his last boat. His first boat, with which he and pupils, much older than himself, Motley, his brother John sailed down the Concord the historian, and T. G. Appleton, the River and up the Merrimack, in 1839, wit of Boston. Emerson himself was at had been made over to Hawthorne in that time but one and thirty Alcott, 1843, and was that in which Hawthorne thirty-five Hawthorne, thirty. Thoreau and Channing made their excursions up was native to Concord, and Emerson had the Assabet, as described in "Mosses from ancestral roots there; but it was partly an Old Manse." chance and partly mutual attraction which When, in October, 1834, Emerson came brought these friends all together by the to reside with his mother in the Old Manse, winding river, in 1842. Emerson had Thoreau, a lad of seventeen, was at Har- thought of a possible retreat to the Berk- vard College, where he graduated in 1837 shire hills, or even to the Maine woods The Orchard House, Mr. Alcott's Earlier Concord Home. Alcott was newly returned from Philadel- and when in 1834-5 he became engaged phia to Boston, to begin there his famous to Miss Jackson, of Plymouth, she sought banks." It occupied a low knoll, over- shown in the engraving, were nearly all and unfortunate Temple School Haw- to fix his residence in that town. His looking a wide region of tame or wild planted by Thoreau; the projecting L. thorne had not emerged from his dim reply is worth noting, as it indicates how country about the house are pleasant, with the chimney contained, in its upper chamber at Salem, where he wrote tales, early he had chosen the vocation of poet. sunny meadows, deep with their beds story, the shop where the Thoreau family and waited for the age to find him out and He wrote in the spring of am of peat, SO cheering with its homely, made lead pencils, and prepared plum- Channing was a lad of sixteen in Boston, born a poet, of a low class, without hearthlike fragrance and in front run a bago for electrotyping,-which was the having left the Round Hill School at doubt, yet a poet. That is my nature constant stream through the centre of that modest bread-winning occupation of Northampton, where he had for fellow- and vocation. My singing, be sure, is 10 11 very husky, and is for the most part, in Emerson's Journal, to the top of Dr. prose. Still, I am a poet, in the sense of Ripley's hill, and renewed my VOWS to a perceiver and dear lover of the har- the genius of that place. Somewhat of monies that are in the soul and in matter. awe, somewhat grand and solemn, mingled A sunset, a snowstorm, a forest, a certain with the beauty that shined afar, around. river-view, are more to me than many I beheld the river, like God's love, jour- friends, and do ordinarily divide my day neying out of the gray past into the green with my books. Wherever I go, there- future." In some verses of the same fore, I guard and study my rambling pro- period, but little known, he gives this pensities. Now Concord is only one of companion picture of sunrise a hundred towns in which I could find these necessary objects, but Plymouth, I Stand upon this pasture hill, Face the Eastern star, until fear, is not one. Plymouth is streets." The slow eye of heaven shall show This was conclusive, and Concord was The world above, the world below. chosen. So was the site of their new Behold the miracle ! house, - for in April, 1835, he wrote to his Thou saw'st but now the twilight sad, And stood beneath the firmament brother in New York :-"I hope to hire A watchman in a clark gray tent, a house and set up a fireside next Sep- Waiting till God create the Earth,- FWR The Baker Farm, given the present slope and vestment of talism and though Alcott, Emerson, this hill, looking towards the green Channing, and Thoreau were more at Musketaquid," and across it to the op- home in Concord, they were familiar with posite slope of Ponkawtasset, where after- Plymouth, too - its Pilgrim Rock, its Hill- wards stood Channing's small cottage side garden, its warm, sandy wood roads on the lonely hill." The projected house (warm in winter and cool in summer), was never built, for Emerson bought a and its breezy Island out in the bay. It house elsewhere, and Charles Emerson was while preaching and lecturing at Ply- died in May, 1836. mouth in 1833-4, that Emerson became Already in 1834 had Emerson's first the lover and the betrothed of Miss Jack- book, Nature, begun to take form. and son (whom he married in September, it is traditional that it was mainly written 1835), and it was one of the towns where in the Old Manse. It came out anony- he continued to lecture for years. Mars- mously, and when the inquiry was made ton Watson, of Plymouth, who was at in 1836, Who is the author of Nature Harvard College with Thoreau, and who, some wit had his answer ready God after graduating in 1838, took to garden- and Waldo Emerson." With this little ing and tree-planting on a hillside of his Concord River. book New England Transcendentalism native town, was one of the Transcen- was introduced to the world, not, as dental circle, and made his country house tember. Perhaps Charles, also and a Behold the new majestic birth Emerson playfully said afterward, as a of Hillside a resort for the brethren of year hence shall we not build a house on Sleeps the vast East in pleased peace, known and fixed element like salt or the faith. Alcott thus describes the spot, Grandfather's hill, facing Wachusett, Up the far mountain walls, the streams increase, meal," - but as a vivid and rather indefi- in a sonnet to Watson Inundating the heaven Monadnoc, and the setting sun?' This With spouting streams and waves of light, nite potentiality. Yet; such as it was, it was the " Eastern Hill," opposite the Old Which round the floating isles unite." had a long career and noteworthy results. "Thou, better taught, on worthiest aims intent, Manse ( for " Grandfather " was Dr. In consequence, partly, of Emerson's mar- Short distance from the Pilgrim's sea-washed Ripley, the old minister, who lived there) Here the verse is unfinished, and even riage in Plymouth, for all practical pur- street a place sacred to the brothers. the thought is halting or redundant, poses thereafter, Concord and Plymouth Thine orchard planted; grove and garden there And sheltering coppice hide thy mansion neat, went Sunday evening, at sundown," says the picture is impressive. Our artist has were the two shire-towns of Transcenden- By winding alley reached, and gay parterre; 12 13 KALPH WALDO EMERSON PAPERS, 1835-18/1 Page 1 of 5 RALPH WALDO EMERSON PAPERS, 1835-1871 Ralph Waldo Emerson from carte de visite Not to be reproduced without permission from the Concord Free Public Library. Vault A35, R.W.Emerson, Unit 2 EXTENT: 42 items (1 container, plus three oversize folders shelved outside container). ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Organized into three series: I. Manuscripts; II. Correspondence; III Deed. Within series, material arranged chronologically. BIOGRAPHY: American philosopher, essayist, poet, lecturer, Transcendentalist; resident of Concord, Mass. Born in Boston, May 25, 1803; died in Concord, Apr. 27, 1882. RWE's grandfather was William Emerson (1743-1776), minister of the First Church in Concord; his father was William Emerson (1769- 1811), pastor of the First Church in Boston. Education influenced by aunt Mary Moody Emerson. Entered Harvard in 1817; teachers included George Ticknor, Edward Everett, Edward Tyrrel Channing; graduated 1821. At Harvard, began to keep journals that later served as source material for lectures, which served in turn as source material for books. Taught school before entering Harvard Divinity School. Approved as candidate for Unitarian ministry in 1826. In 1829, married Ellen Louisa Tucker, who died in 1831. Became colleague of Rev. Henry Ware at Second Church in Boston, 1829; resigned in 1832. Toured Europe 1832-1833; met Carlyle, Wordsworth, Coleridge. On return to Boston, turned to lecturing as source of income. His Transcendentalism, expressed in his first book, Nature (1836), was shaped by reading German authors, Wordsworth, Plato, Neoplatonists, Eastern writings, Montaigne, and Swedenborg. In 1834, settled in Concord, home of his ancestors Peter Bulkeley (founder and first minister of town) and William Emerson. In 1835, purchased home on Cambridge Turnpike, delivered discourse at celebration of bicentennial of Concord's incorporation, and married Lydia Jackson of Plymouth. Friend of Thoreau, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and others among Transcendentalists. "American Scholar" speech delivered and published in 1837, "Divinity School Address" in 1838. The Dial was started in 1840 with Emerson as a major contributor, later editor. First series of Essays published in 1841, second in 1844, Poems in 1847. Journeyed again to England and France, 1847-1848. Spoke out against slavery during 1850s. One of founders of Saturday Club, 1855. Traveled to California, where he met John Muir, 1871. Concord home burned in 1872. Went abroad, returning to Concord to find home rebuilt through largesse of friends. Delivered keynote address at dedication of Concord Free Public http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/RWEmerson.htm 10/12/2006 RALPH WALDO EMERSON PAPERS, 1835-1871 Page 2 of 5 Library, 1873. Final decade marked by progressive mental decline. Son Edward Waldo Emerson edited posthumous edition of complete works (published 1903-1904), also journals (1909-1914). James Elliot Cabot was literary executor. Emerson became acquainted with Charles King Newcomb in 1840. Newcomb, born in 1820, was a son of Lieutenant Henry S. Newcomb and Rhoda Mardenborough Newcomb. He graduated from Brown University in 1837, boarded at Brook Farm 1841-1845, lived primarily in Providence 1845-1865. He joined the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers in 1862 and was sent to defend Washington from possible Confederate attack. He lived in Philadelphia 1866-1871, in Europe 1871-1894, and died in Paris in 1894. He was a diarist, an admirer of Swedenborgian philosophy, a poet, and a friend and correspondent of Margaret Fuller as well as of Emerson. Newcomb's only published work was "The First Dolon" (from "The Two Dolons"), contributed to The Dial for July, 1842. SCOPE AND CONTENT: Papers include: manuscript paragraph "Thaddeus Blood," dated 1835 July 30; holograph of essay "Culture" ([1860]), with ALS, RWE to James T. Fields, 1864 Feb. 23, tipped in; two ms. fragments; correspondence 1836-1871, including letters from RWE to Frederic Henry Hedge, to Edward Jarvis (about the return of $10 overpaid RWE as supply minister), to Charles King Newcomb (22 letters, 1842-1858), to Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin, to the editor of The Commonwealth, to Mr. Wild (Librarian of the Concord Town Library, which preceded the Concord Free Public Library) about access to the Town Library for Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, to Henry David Thoreau, to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (about subscription taken up for herbarium to be prepared by Horace Mann, Jr., for the Concord Town Library; ALS from Horace Mann, Jr., to RWE and subscription list in Emerson's hand included), to Ellen Tucker Emerson (RWE's daughter), To H.A. Page, "My dear Blake," and J.H. Doyle (regarding lecturing, the letter to Blake referring also to sitting for a photograph); deed to land, RWE to Robert Carter, 1859 Aug. 11 (recorded 1860 Sept. 20), for property on the Assabet River in Concord. The holograph of "Culture" is the publisher's (Ticknor and Fields's) manuscript of an essay that first appeared in printed form in the Atlantic Monthly for Sept., 1860 (Myerson E154), and was subsequently included in the collection The Conduct of Life (published Dec., 1860; Myerson A26.1). It includes numerous emendations and deletions by Emerson. The twenty-two letters, 1842-1858, from Emerson to Charles King Newcomb were written while Newcomb lived at Brook Farm and in Providence. The letters refer to "The Two Dolons" and its anticipated publication in The Dial, to Margaret Fuller, Henry D. Thoreau, Elizabeth Hoar, Bronson Alcott, Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George P. Bradford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edmund Hosmer, Ellery Channing, Samuel Ward, and Swedenborg. In the earlier letters (1842), Emerson repeatedly asks Newcomb to visit him in Concord. The letters are accompanied by a photographic portrait of Emerson and by a letter and a note from Edward Waldo Emerson to Miss Holland. SOURCES OF ACQUISITION: Multiple; partially established. Holograph of "Culture" presented by James T. Fields, September 1873 (in honor of the opening of the Concord Free Public Library). Letters to Charles King Newcomb presented by Mrs. Arthur Holland, 1929. ALS to Thoreau deposited by the Concord Antiquarian Society, 1971; converted to gift, 1974. ALS to "My dear Blake" purchased at online auction, July 2000. Three letters (1864 Sept. 7 and Sept. 16, and 1865 Dec. 4) purchased of Seaport Autographs, 04/09/01. Two ALS (specifically which ones unidentified in acquisition records) presented by Edward L. Parker, 1907/08. Two ms. fragments removed from a collection given by Mary Fenn, 1995. Deed presented by George T. Goodspeed, 1941. PROVENANCE: ALS to "My dear Blake" earlier sold to Argosy Book Store (Argosy sales slip and description filed with accession material in CFPL records). http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/RWEmerson.htm 10/12/2006 RALPH WALDO EMERSON PAPERS, 1835-1871 Page 3 of 5 ASSOCIATED MATERIALS: The Concord Free Public Library has a number of other collections of papers and records that include Emerson manuscripts, as well as major holdings of material about Emerson. The records of the Committee of Arrangements for the 1835 celebration of the bicentennial of Concord, for example, include Emerson's holograph discourse for the occasion. Volumes from Emerson's library are included in the Concord Authors Collection. For additional information about holdings, contact the Special Collections staff. Major Emerson manuscript holdings have been deposited by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association at the Houghton Library, Harvard University. NOTES/COMMENTS: Holograph of "Culture" available on microfilm, for use in Library. Letter to Thoreau formerly CAS D-2030k. Two letters (letter to N.W. Coffin and letter to editor of Commonwealth) conserved at Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1997 (removed from double glass, cleaned, deacidified, encapsulated, and photographed). Two other items (as marked on folders) sent to NEDCC for washing, deacidification, reinforcing with Japanese paper, mending, encapsulation, etc. (1976 and 1979). Papers as described in NUCMC (MS 66001618) are more inclusive than as here described. Nine items transferred from Letter Files into papers: Letter File 1, M6; Letter File 3, E5-E7, E11, E16, and E17; Letter File 3A, E1; Letter File 6, E7 (Mar. 1995). "Culture" accessioned (8579; Sept., 1873). ALS to "My dear Blake" accessioned (AMC 041, 07/25/00). Letters purchased of Seaport Autographs accessioned (AMC 060-062, 04/20/01). PROCESSED BY: LPW; finding aid prepared 03/10/96; ed. 04/30/01 and 03/13/04. CONTAINER LIST SERIES I. MANUSCRIPTS: Folder 1: "Thaddeus Blood," 1835 July 30. Folder 2: "Culture" (published in Atlantic Monthly for Sept., 1860, and in The Conduct of Life). Tipped in: ALS, R.W. Emerson to James T. Fields, 1864 Feb. 23. Folder 3: Two fragments "The dim lantern which the astronomer used at first 11. "A mulatto girl the chambermaid in the boat from Louisville " SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE Folder 4: ALS to Frederic Henry Hedge ("My dear friend"), 1836 July 20. Folder 5: ALS to Edward Jarvis, 1836 Oct. 13 (regarding return of $10.00 overpaid RWE as supply minister). Folder 6: http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/RWEmerson.htm 10/12/2006 somephate borce all thoughts things li he come rays from his centre; that, for the moft THELETTERS OF part, they come. Meantime Shakespeare, d all books of art w hich require a funcader of the man R All L P H W All L D them in order to their full enjoy ment, hids disparages. But belovidge the lets in the Zenith I had a letter from Caryle a few weeks fina E MI E R S O He is Hill instand m Occupied on that book. word and writer like a jaded man. He hardly deigus a about his coming either 60 absorbed in his work- He theates TAH. Evertts review of Sartion as eithing thria IN SIX VOLUMES plied quer, or else, opening on you grandeur of title EDITED BY Meantime the boo h hasford very will & duliness rarely to be met with on eacher." 1. wile shorthy beaut appricent you I had a Chapter which I call RALPH L. RUSK in foid prof, which I hall to-write print think Chapter called Spirit " / with prefently, stand you Them wish have never another pleasure of any conversation to come her your tomor- had the Filler. We expect a her vis I will tell VOLUME TWO friend hip Erotors stake us please I svw you should from what be matter the faciety minis Heartyle ter would 7 barcard a resident olways which he 7 school in Brotten and there Ripley befored be oigiters. But my Castles that thood would have fallen, and thif - will never Hand. Bul See NEW YORK AND LONDON Facsimile Page of Letter to Frederic Henry Hedge July 20, 1836 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS H.A.B. Shapiro Memorial Library NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE Ann 326 AUGUST 1840 AUGUST 1840 327 write over again to you the old creed of the heart, which is always new. To CAROLINE STURGIS, CONCORD? AUGUST? C. 20? 1840? 881 So, dear child, I give you up to all your Gods - to your wildest love and I hate every thing frugal and cowardly in friendship. That, at least pursuit of beauty, to the boldest effort of your Imagination to express it, should be brave and generous. When we fear the withdrawal of love to the most original choices of tasks and influences and the rashest ex- from ourselves by the new relations which our companions must clusion of all you deem alien or malign; - and you shall not give me so form,382 it is mere infidelity. We believe in our eyes and not in the great a joy as by the finding for yourself a love which shall make mine Creator We do not see any equal pretender in the field, and we con- show cold and feeble - which certainly is not cold or feeble; - clude that Beauty and Virtue must vail their high top, and buy their Eden by the loss of that which makes them ours. But we are wiser with To MARGARET FULLER, CONCORD, AUGUST 29, 1840 384 the next sun, and know that a true and native friend is only the exten- Saturday 29 Aug. 1840, Concord. sion of our own being and perceiving into other skies and societies, Thanks, my dear Margaret, for the good letter of Wednesday,835 & there learning wisdom, there discerning spirits, and attracting our own thanks evermore to you & to our friends & to the Framer & inspirer of for us, as truly as we had done hitherto in our strait enclosure. I wish all beauty & love, for the joy I have drawn & do still draw from these you to go out an adventurous missionary, into all the nations of happy flying days - I shall never go quite back to my old arctic habits I souls, and by all whom you can greatly, and by any whom you can shall believe that nobleness is loving, & delights in sharing itself. But wholly love, I see that I too must be immeasurably enriched. what shall I say to you of this my sudden dejection from the sunlit Not I, not thou, shall put on the God such an affront, as to fancy we heights of my felicity to which I had been as suddenly uplifted. Was I know the best - have already seen the flower of his angels. This little not raised out of the society of mere mortals by being chosen the friend coloured world, these few homely gossips we have chatted with, are of the holiest nun & began instantly to dream of pure confidences & not all of nature, nay not even the first scene of the first Act, but the "prayers of preserved maids in bodies delicate," 837 when a flash of poor prologue only. The rent and revenues of character, we have not lightning shivers my castle in the air. The confessions the hope of being yet computed: great spiritual lords walk among us hourly as benefac- often & often shined on & rained on by these influences of being steeped tors, but how can we see them, we who look down and not up, who ap- in this light & SO ripened to power whereof I yet dreamed not, are propriate and not give? As we, dear sister,3 are naturally friends, we ended. the fragment of confidence that a wife can give to an old shall not need to have respect unto each other. We can carry life after friend is not worth picking up after this invitation to Elysian tables. its own great way, without lagging for the dull convoy, without bend- What of that? I have lived one day. "Tomorrow to fresh fields & pas- ing to please or to explain, sure that we are then nearest when we are tures new." 838 Ward I shall not lose. My joy for him is very great. I have farthest on our own road. I feel how clearly the law of friendship re- never had occasion to congratulate any person SO truly. What an event quires the grandest interpretation, when I glance from the dearest lover to him! its consequences to the history of his genius who can foresee? to the vast spirit impatient of bounds, impatient of persons, foreseeing But ah! my friend, you must be generous beyond even the strain of the fall of every fondness, of every specialty. Only that which is related, heroism to bear your part in this scene & resign without a sigh two can weather His sky or grow with the growing world. It gives me joy to 334. MS owned by RWEMA; ph. in CUL. The superscription is to Margaret 331. MS owned by RWEMA; ph. in CUL. This is a copy in Lidian Emerson's Fuller at "Jamaica Plains." The letter relates to the approaching marriage of hand but bears Emerson's own endorsement: "Copy of letter to C. S." The general Anna Barker to Samuel Gray Ward. Ward had played hitherto an important part tone and evidence cited below seem to indicate August or September, 1840, as the in the life of Margaret Fuller, who had drawn him into Emerson's circle. probable date. I conjecture that this followed close upon the letter of Aug. 16? 1840; 335. I have not found this letter. but it may even have been a part of that letter, or it may have been written several 336. Cf. the letters of Aug. 16 and 16? and Oct.? c. 2? 1840? weeks later. 337. Apparently a curious transformation of Measure for Measure, II, ii: 332. This may be an allusion to Anna Barker and Samuel Gray Ward, who were prayers from preserved souls, to be married on Oct. 3 (see the letters of Oct. 1 and 19, 1840) From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate 333. Cf. Sept. 13, 1840, to Margaret Fuller: "I write my letters lately to Caroline, To nothing temporal." with whom I have agreed that we are brother & sister 338. The same line of Milton's is quoted thus in July 2, 1840. 328 SEPTEMBER 1840 SEPTEMBER 1840 329 Friends; - you whose heart unceasingly demands all, & is a sea that To MARGARET FULLER, CONCORD, SEPTEMBER 6, 1840 hates an ebb. I know there will be an ardent will & endeavor on their parts to prevent if it were indeed possible & in all ways to relieve & con- Concord, Sept. 6, 1840 ceal this bereavement but I doubt they must deal with too keen a seer I would gladly come, so would Lidian, so would all, I doubt not, - and a heart too thoroughly alive in its affections to cover up the whole but I have spent all my allowance of holiday for some time to come, & fact with roses & myrrh. must even stay at home this week. My brother & his family have been P.M. with me a few days,848 & leave us tomorrow. Sarah Clarke promises to Well & I too, it seems, have done you injustice and can never speak visit us next week a few days,844 & I must get from her a report of your to you in the current day but always to the ghost of your yesterday. golden sayings. Indeed I have need to stay at home, - for do you know That must be snow in summer & a wound in the house of a friend.840 any person who has gone so far into society lately as I? - Not if you had But how is it that you can leave me in this ignorance, with such a will read the wonderful letters which come to me. I have not been to the on your part to teach & on my part to learn? I will not vex these vain Post Office today, but yesterday I found there a note from Margaret questions but instead rejoice with you that from each other & from all Fuller; the day before one from Caroline; the day before that one from these tormenting lovers we can retreat always upon the Invisible Heart Anna & Raphael; 845 and the day before that one from John Sterling. upon the Celestial Love, and that not to be soothed merely but to be Must there not be lying one there today from Bettina or from Carlyle replenished, - not to be compensated but to receive power to make all at the least? things new. I am very happy & greatly your debtor in these days and yet A barn chamber with a salad or a potato would seem to be the need- I find my solitude necessary & more than ever welcome to me. Austerely ful regimen for weeks & moons of a hermit so dangerously favored by kind, nature calms my pleasant fevers, flatters me never, tells me still the Social Gods. Yours affectionately, what a truant pupil I have been, & how far I am behind my class. Nay R. W. E. my solitary river is not solitary enough; it interrupts, it puts me out, and I cannot be alone with the Alone.8 From these thoughts I would To O. S. KEITH? CONCORD? SEPTEMBER 7, 1840 gladly write to these sons & daughters of time in this culminating hour [See the note on Sept. 1 and 2, 1840.] of love & joy which I also have so gladly shared. Write to me from any mood: I would not lose any ray from this particular house of heaven in To ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, CONCORD, SEPTEMBER 8, 1840 8 which we have lately abode. R. W. E. Concord. 8 Sept. 1840. To THOMAS CARLYLE, CONCORD, AUGUST 30, 1840 The questions that were hardly touched at Mr Parker's 848 are the best that can be for discussion, & better far better fields for private [MS owned by Mr. Owen D. Young; ph. in CUL. Printed in C--E Corr., 1883.] 342. MS owned by RWEMA; ph. in CUL. Margaret Fuller's name is in the To O. S. KEITH, CONCORD? SEPTEMBER 1 AND 2, 1840 superscription. 343. William Emerson wrote to Mary Moody Emerson on Sept. 16, 1840 (MS [Acknowledged in Keith, Boston, Sept. 9, 1840. Keith adds that he called on owned by Dr. Haven Emerson), that he and his family began their visit at Con- Munroe & Co. and found Emerson's letter of Sept. 7, inclosing $200, and says cord on the first day of that month. he is willing that payment of the remainder of the note be deferred, as sug- 344. Cf. Sept. 12, 1840. gested. Keith discusses the difficulty of raising funds for the Bunker Hill 345. Anna Barker and Ward; doubtless Emerson's answer was the letter of Sept., Monument.] 1840. 339. Proverbs, 26:1. 346. Sterling, July 18, 1840 (A Correspondence, pp. 32-35) 340. From Zechariah, 13:6. 347. MS owned by RWEMA; ph. in CUL. This is an incomplete copy, not in 341. Cf. Oct.? c. 2? 1840? Emerson was probably thinking of Plotinus here as Emerson's hand. The copyist has indicated that Elizabeth Peabody is the person in his lecture on Swedenborg and, possibly, in "Illusions" (Cent. Ed., IV, 97; and addressed. VI, 325) 348. Perhaps at a meeting of the "Transcendental Club," but I have no proof. American literature 8, (1936). 22-36, EMERSON IN LONDON AND THE LONDON LECTURES TOWNSEND SCUDDER, III Swarthmore College AFTER COMPLETING his ambitious and arduous lecture tour of 1847-I848 in the North of England and in Scotland,¹ Emer- son was in no mood to accept further engagements to speak. Weary from the efforts of his strenuous campaign in the provinces, he ap- parently would have been perfectly satisfied to give no lectures at all in London.² In spite of the fact that Carlyle, even before Emer- son set foot on English soil, had promised his American friend an audience of British aristocracy in the city, and had advised him that the season for speaking there was during April and May, the prospect evidently did not seem sufficiently alluring. Emerson had the impression that abstract thought might not be favorably re- ceived by metropolitan audiences. 4 Indeed the times themselves, because of the disturbed political situation throughout Europe, were unpropitious for the success of such apparently inconsequential things as lectures.5 When Emerson arrived in London on Thursday, March 2,6 his real wish was to remain a sight-seer7 an observer of London's multi- 1 For a study of this lecture tour, see my article "Emerson's British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848," of which Part I appeared in American Literature VII, 15-36 (March, 1935), Part II in American Literature, VII, 166-180 (May, 1935). In a letter to his brother William, London, March 9, 1848, Emerson wrote: "It is un- certain whether I shall read any more lectures, which are sometimes pounds of flesh. If I am properly asked, I shall attempt it, but not t think at the Societies, & I shall not volun- teer" (from a letter in the Widener Library, soon to appear in Professor Rusk's edition of Emerson's correspondence). 9 See The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. C. E. Norton (Boston, 1883), II, 123-124. 4 See J. E. Cabot, A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston, 1887), II, 555-557. 6 This fact is emphasized by Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, June IO, 1848; and The Critic and London Literary Journal, Aug. I, 1851, pp. 347-348- 6 Although the editors of the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (VII, 402) give March 1 as the day of Emerson's arrival, his carefully kept expense accounts (Emerson Memorial Association) would seem to indicate that the actual date was March 2. 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Creator: Tilton, Eleanor M., 1913- Biographical Note Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor & authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947. Scope and Contents This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4079404.html 7/16/2006 Minuteman Library Network/Concoro Page 1 of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 000 000 mm 000 mm New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR bosco Concord Search Record 8 of 10 Record: Prev Next Author Bosco, Ronald A. Title Ralph Waldo Emerson : a bicentennial exhibition at Houghton Library / Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Publication info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Library, 2003. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.2 Item 236 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Description 102 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 31 cm. Series Harvard Library bulletin ; new series, V. 13, no. 3-4 Note Catalog of an exhibition held in the Edison and Newman Room in the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library from March 26 to June 7, 2003. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references. Contents Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-2003: A bicentennial celebration -- Emerson at Harvard -- Family, friends, and society -- Emerson as preacher and lecturer -- Emerson as professional author -- Resources for the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard. Local note Concord's C.PAM. copy: Ronald Bosco; gift; 2003 Aug. 8. -- Signed by both authors on t.p. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Anniversaries, etc. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Exhibitions. Houghton Library -- Exhibitions. Added author Myerson, Joel. Houghton Library. Harvard University. Library. Record 8 of 10 Record: Prev Next http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/abosco/abosco/1%2C6%2C17%2CB/frameset&FF=... 10/13/2006 Don Timiliar OCAC 11/26/06 Bio 1/07 THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE NEW SERIES MAY, 1903 VOL. XXVIII No. 3 OCLC The Emerson Centennial 1882 By George Willis Cooke SPONTANEOUS and enthu- friend of the Indian and the negro, A siastic movement to honor the defender of woman, the interpret- Emerson during this hun- er of the common people. We may dredth year since his birth be inclined to qualify his doctrine of justifies itself, and needs no elaborate individualism here and there, but he interpretation. It is a manifestation largely qualified it himself with his of what many persons have felt for profound regard for the rights of all. him and his teachings, whether they He was not an individualist for him- fully agree with his philosophy, his self or his class, but that even the religion and his ethical principles, or lowest man might have the opportuni- whether they are inclined to reject ty to express himself and to secure the these to a greater or lesser extent. It fullest measure of self-activity. He is the man they honor, and his noble was no aristocrat that trusts in culture life. They see in him a man of or hereditary descent, but he loved the genius, a poet of high lyrical gifts, people and believed in them. Accord- and a writer of pronounced individ- ing to his view the vision of God may uality and consummate skill. come to any man who desires it, and Emerson has commended himself to the