Concord Free hubrary pulglic coffer 7 CONCOR 1), M a S S., Fabry 13, 1 9 o 2. George 3.Dorr, Esq. Chairman of the Visiting Committee, etc. 3, Commonwealth Avenue ,Back Bay. Dear Sir; 1 regret that my engagements are such that 1 cannot be present at the important meeting at Mrs. Bullard's to which you invite me to- morrow, where 1 should learn what 1 am desirous of knowing, the plans for instruction in the Philosophical Department, of Harvard University, with which it, is proposed to connect the name of my old errend and master certain philosophical studies, Mr. Emerson. thirty years 1 entered the University some- thing more than KXXXXXXXXHXXXX after Waldo Emerson had graduated there, and when he had been teaching, in his profound, if desultory manner, for more than t,wenty years, in public discourses and by published writings. Yet in 1852, when 1 entered, if there was a single professor or tutor who, IK 1 will not, SAY taught, but who faintly understood, the principles at the root OF Emerson's philosophy (which 1 have been wont to call Spiritual or Vital, to distinguish it 'from what he used to term Scotch metaphysics1) it was not my good fortune to come in contact with such. few students in the College, and a few more in the Divinity School, were acquainted with his writings, and valued them highly;but so far as the Faculty and Govern- ment, of the University was concerned, with the exception of a single pro- fessor in the Divinity School, and the retiring professor of Philosophy, Dr. Walker, 1 incline to the opinion that Paley and Hobbes, and certainly Locke and Sir William Hamilton, filled a larger space in their substitute for speculative philosophy, than Emerson, Plotinus, Aristotle and Plato put together. 1 will not, mention Kant, Hegel, nichte, and the fixed stars of Ger- man philosophy; for we were taught by our instructors that they were oi - ther useless or pernicious in our speculative studies. 1 ; is with peculi- ar pleasure, therefore, that 1 hear, After half a century, that Emerson be- sins to assume at Harvard the place that was rightfully due him in 1836, his first book Nature' came from the press. .In.speculative thought, that slender treatise, as afterwards in ethics his more extended volumes, placed Emerson so far above every American philosopher, not excepting Jo- nathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin, that it, is strange his altitude was not at least vaguely suspected by his own University. That Emerson felt this want of appreciation is well known to me, though he perhaps underval ued his own merit as a philosopher and teacher of wisdom. 1 t, was partly to testify their own appreciation that the managers of the Concord School of Philosophy, nearly a quarter of a century ago, opened their courses of lectures, in which philosophers of several sects in philoso- phy took part, to that distinctive form of thought and speculative ethics which Emerson represented. He was too far advanced in age, (as he had been when tardily invited to lecture at our University) to present his views systematically;hut several of his disciples and friends supplied the defect in some degree;and the result of this experimental and almost 1m - promptu School convinced those who took part in it how much to he ragrette was the oversight of which Harvard and New England had been guilty in regard to this inspired and inspiring teacher. Those who admired Emerson when it, was the fashion to ignore or ridicule or censure his original presentation of fundamental truth, must rejoice greatly to see a wiser spirit prevailing in his University Much time has been lost;much shallow and even hurtful teaching has been allowed to disgust, the young with the true sweetness of Philosophy; but, WA may now hope that the wider range and opportunity of the Department in which you have an official place will in some measure atone for the defects of past years. In these strictures 1 do not fail to recognize how greatly the capacity and spirit of philo- - sophic instruction at Harvard has improved since 1 was its hapless vict- in in 1853-54:and 1 know nothing better calculated to continue this 1m- - provement than the accomplished purpose which 1 understand you and the gentlemen who are to speak tomorrow have in view. Very respectfully F.B.Sausa Record #1 Format: Manuscript LEADER cbc 22 Ia 4500 001 AEL-1668 003 OCOLC 005 19951104121030.0 008 951104i18641909mau eng d 010 o 33423117 $ 040 a CFD $c CFD $e appm $ 043 a n-us- $a n-us-ma $ 099 a Vault $a A35 $a J.T.Harris $a Unit 1 $ 049 a CFDA $ 100 1 a Harris, William Torrey, $d 1835-1909. $ 245 00 a Correspondence to William Torrey Harris, $f [1864]-1909. $ 300 a 193 items + $e enclosures. $ 351 a Organized alphabetically by name of correspondent; $b letters within each name sequence arranged chronologically. $ 545 a Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn. ; died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis public schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist Bronson Alcott and F.B. Sanborn in establishing Concord School of Philosophy. In 1889, accepted position of 545 United States Commissioner of Education; resigned in 1906. Assistant editor of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889) The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889) : Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890) The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898) $ 520 8 a Includes letters to Harris from the following individuals: Louisa May Alcott (1 item, 1885) Edward Waldo Emerson (7 items + enclosure, 1891-1907); J. Holtzbecker/Holzbecker (2 items, 1882) ; Julia Ward Howe (6 items, 1871-1904) ; Mary Peabody Mann (1 item, 1883?) ; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (18 items + enclosure + some typed transcripts, 1881-1888, plus one letter of uncertain authorship, possibly by E.P. Peabody) ; A.S. (A.L.?) Pratt (1 item, 1887) ; Anna B. Pratt (5 items, 1888-1890) ; Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (150 items + enclosures, [1864]-1909). Emily Talbot (1 item, 1881) $ 520 8 a (cont.) Some of the correspondence is in reference to the Concord School of Philosophy. Some of the Sanborn letters concern the American Social Science Association, of which both Sanborn and Harris were officers. The Concord authors provide a recurring theme in the Sanborn letters. One of the Sanborn letters (Dec. 7, 1877) refers to the death of Mrs. A.M. Alcott, one (Mar. 3, 1888) to Bronson Alcott's impending death. One Sanborn letter (Jan. 12, 1890) includes an enclosed ALS (Jan. 7, 1890) from Daniel Chester French about the designing of a bust of Alcott. The later $ 520 8 a (cont.) Sanborn letters include extensive enclosures. Some of the correspondence is accompanied by information provided by Edith Davidson Harris (W.T. Harris's daughter) $ 530 3 Sanborn correspondence (complete?) : $a available on microfilm; $c for use in Library. $ 541 a Edith Davidson Harris; $c gift; $d 1952. $ 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 XXX 000) III 000: 0000 New Search Save Records MARC Display Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) TITLE concord harvest Concord ridgle Search Record: Prev Next Author Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Title Concord harvest; publications of the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature with notes on its successors and other resources for research in Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and the later transcendentalists. Publication info. Hartford, Transcendental Books [1970] 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 Description 2 V. illus., ports. 29 cm. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Concord School of Philosophy. Transcendentalism (New England) Added author Concord School of Philosophy. Record: Prev Next New Search Save Records MARC Display Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) i Individuals. Communities. Information. The World. We bring it all together. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search~/a?searchtype=t&searcharg=concord+harvest&search.. 1/17/2007 Concord Harvest Vol. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT-A RECENTLY DISCOVERED PORTRAIT Frontispiece PREFACE 5 I. THE FIRST AUTHORIZED VOLUME OF THE SCHOOL: CONCORD LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHY 6 The Order of Lectures in 1882 7 The Concord Summer School-Historical Sketch 9 Digests of the Lectures of July-August, 1882 11 II. THE SECOND AUTHORIZED VOLUME OF THE SCHOOL: THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF EMERSON 89 Table of the Lectures of 1884 90 The Concord School of Philosophy- Sketch 91 Index to the Volume 201 III. THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY by Austin Warren 211 IV THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn 221 V. THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY by Hester Martha Hunt Poole 230 VI. PICTURES OF PERSONS AND BUILDINGS 235 VII. MISCELLANEOUS SMALL PUBLICATIONS OF THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, INCLUDING TEACHING MATERIALS, CIRCULARS, SYLLABI, AND ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. PART ONE : JUNE, 1879-JULY 30, 1883 239 VIII. CIRCULARS, SYLLABI, AND ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ISSUED BY THE SCHOOL. PART TWO: AUGUST 2, 1883 JUNE 2, 1888 281 IX. SKETCHES OF CONCORD PHILOSOPHERS by Sara A. Underwood 333 X. THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT ST. CLOUD, N. J., JUNE 20 - JULY 18, 1887 340 XI. THE THOMAS DAVIDSON SCHOOL, FARMINGTON, CONN., JUNE 18 JULY 6, 1888 341 3 4 XII. THE FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION 344 XIII. THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL, MAY, 1903 353 XIV. THE EMERSON MEMORIAL SCHOOL IN CONCORD AND BOSTON, JULY, 1903 359 XV. THE ETHICAL MOVEMENT-LECTURES SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY 374 XVI. ALCOTT AND THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY by Florence Whiting Brown 389 XVII. PHILOSOPHIAE QUAESTOR: OR, DAYS IN CONCORD by Julia R. Anagnos 401 XVIII. MEMORABILIA OF THOMAS DAVIDSON edited by William Knight 416 XIX. THE THIRD OFFICIAL VOLUME OF LECTURES: THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF GOETHE Table of the Lectures 430 Index to the Volume 543 XX. A SUMMER DAY AT CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS by Stuart J. Reid 545 XXI. LIST OF THOSE ATTENDING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, JULY-AUGUST, 1879 549 XXII. DIRECTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL NAMES OF OFFICERS AND LECTURERS IN THE CONCORD SCHOOL AND ITS SUCCESSORS 552 COLOPHON 554 FA 88800 -A=B.AL-COFF HILLSIDE-IN-1845 From a drawing by A. Bronson Alcott Concord Harvest Vol. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS III. CIRCULARS, SYLLABI, AND ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ISSUED BY THE SCHOOL. PART TWO: AUGUST 2, 1883-JUNE 2, 1888 281 X. SKETCHES OF CONCORD PHILOSOPHERS by Sara A. Underwood 333 THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT ST. CLOUD, N. J., JUNE 20-JULY 18, 1887 340 I. THE THOMAS DAVIDSON SCHOOL, FARMINGTON, CONN., JUNE 18- JULY 6, 1888 341 II. THE FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION 344 III. THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL, MAY, 1903 353 IV. THE EMERSON MEMORIAL SCHOOL IN CONCORD AND BOSTON, JULY, 1803 359 V. THE ETHICAL MOVEMENT-LECTURES SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY 374 VI. ALCOTT AND THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY by Florence Whiting Brown 389 (VII. PHILOSOPHIAE QUAESTOR; OR, DAYS IN CONCORD by Julia R. Anagnos 401 (VIII. MEMORABILIA OF THOMAS DAVIDSON edited by William Knight 416 (IX. THE THIRD OFFICIAL VOLUME OF LECTURES: THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF GOETHE Table of the Lectures 430 Index to the Volume 543 (x. A SUMMER DAY AT CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS by Stuart J. Reid 545 (XI. LIST OF THOSE ATTENDING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, JULY-AUGUST 1879 549 XXII. DIRECTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL NAMES OF OFFICERS AND LECTURERS IN THE CONCORD SCHOOL AND ITS SUCCESSORS 552 COLOPHON 554 359 CTURES AT THE EMERSON MEMORIAL SCHOOL IN CONCORD AND BOSTON DURING JULY, 1903, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FREE RELI- GIOUS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA The Emerson Centennial at 16. MTs. Anna Garlin Spencer, "The American Woman's Debt to Emerson." Concord. 17. Prof. Kuno Francke, "Emerson's Debt to Germany and Germany's Debt to Emer- The detailed program of the Memorial son." School to be held at Concord and Bos- 20. Edwin D. Mead, "Emerson's Message in Education." ton this summer, under the auspices of 21. Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, "Emerson and the Free Religious Association of Carlyle." 22. Dr. Edward W. Emerson, "The Religion of America, of which Emerson was one of Emerson." the founders and vice-presidents, is as 23. Prof. Charles F. Richardson, "Emerson's Place in American Literature." follows: 24. Percival Chubb. "Emerson's Spiritual The school will open on Monday, Leadership in England." July 13, and continue three weeks. 27. Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, "Emerson and There will be thirty lectures, covering Oriental Thought." 28. Charles Malloy, "The Sphinx." the various aspects of Emerson's life 29. Rev. John W. Chadwick, "The Simpler and work. The morning lectures will be Emerson." given in Concord at IO o'clock in the 30. Moorfield Storey, "Emerson and the Civil War." Town Hall, where Emerson himself lect- 3I. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, "A Century from ured so many times; and the evening the Birth of Emerson." lectures in Boston at 7.45 o'clock in EVENING LECTURES IN BOSTON Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Insti- I3. Pres. Jacob Gould Schurman, "The Phi- tute of Technology. Two afternoons losophy of Emerson." will be devoted to Memories of Emer- 14. Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, "The Poetry of Emerson." son, by men and women who were per- 15. Frank B. Sanborn, "Emerson and the Con- sonal friends of the great thinker; and cord School of Philosophy." there will be throughout the period of 16. George Willis Cooke, "Emerson and the Transcendental Movement." the school special Sunday services, with 17. Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, "Emerson and Har- sermons or addresses by eminent lovers vard." of Emerson. 20. William R. Thayer, "Emerson's Gospel of Individualism." The time for the commemoration has 21. Dr. Francis E. Abbot, "Emerson the Anti- been fixed so as best to accommodate imperialist or Prophet of the Natural the great number of teachers and stu- Rights of Man." 22. Rev. R. Heber Newton, "Emerson the dents from all parts of the country who Man." will come to Boston early in July to at- 23. Henry D. Lloyd, "Emerson's Wit and Humor." tend the convention of the National Ed- 24. William M. Salter, "Emerson's Aim and ucational Association. Method in Social Reform." Address, for any required information, 27. Rabbi Charles Fleischer, "Emerson. the Seer of Democracy." the Secretary of the Committee, David 28. Rev. Benjamin F. Trueblood, "Emerson Greene Haskins, Jr., 5 Tremont Street, and the Inner Light." Boston, Mass., of whom tickets may be 29. William Lloyd Garrison, "Emerson and the Anti-Slavery Movement." ordered by mail; price for both series, 30. Prof. A. E. Dolbear, "Emerson's Thought $5, or, for one only, $3. or, for single in Relation to Modern Science." 3I. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, "Emerson's lectures, 35 cents. Gospel for his Own Time and for Ours." MORNING LECTURES IN CONCORD July. A man is relieved and gay when he 13. Rev. Charles Gordon Ames, "The Sources has put his heart into his work, and of Emerson." done his best; but what he has said or 14. Rev. Charles F. Dole, "Emerson the Puri- tan." done otherwise, shall give him no peace. 15. Joel Benton. "Emerson with Nature." R. W. EMERSON. 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 OK 000 000 m 000TX New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) SUBJECT Concord School of Philosophy. Concord Search Record 20 of 26 Record: Prev Next Author Wilson, Leslie Perrin. Title Philosophy and toadstools / Leslie Perrin Wilson. Publication info. [Concord, Mass. : Concord Journal, Inc., 2005] Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.74 Item 38- CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY 35 Description p. 24 : ill., port. Series Wilson, Leslie Perrin. Historic Concord. Note Leslie Perrin Wilson is the Curator of the William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass.) a writer on local historical and literary topics, and a regular contributor to the Journal. Title from caption. Note: "Historic Concord." See L. P. Wilson's Photocopy, 1 leaf; 22 x 28 cm. scholarship in separate Subject Concord School of Philosophy. Names file. Mushrooms, Poisonous -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Philosophy - -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Concord (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century. Added title Concord Journal (Concord, Mass. : 1960) Related to nnas Concord Journal (Concord, Mass. : 1960). Vol. 78, no. 13 (May 12, 2005). (DLC)sn 89062121 (OCoLC) 19985913 Record 20 of 26 Record: Prev Next 000 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/dConcord+School+of+Philosophy./dconcord+school.. 10/13/2006 Social Circle in Concord records, 1794-2005. Page 1 of 4 SOCIAL CIRCLE IN CONCORD RECORDS, 1794-2005 Vault A75, Soc.Cir., Unit 1 EXTENT: 2.83 linear feet (two containers and ten unboxed Dinner volumes) at the Centenary of ORGANIZATION: Organized into three series: I. General records, 1794-1903; II. Manuscript memoirs of members, 1Ralph Waldo Emerson [18--?]-1910 (bulk [1856]-1910); III. Published volumes, 1882-2005. 36 the Social Circle in Concord HISTORY: Men's organization in Concord, Mass., formed in 1794, having been preceded by two earlier versions, the first dating back to 1782, possibly before. Limited by constitution to a membership of not more than twenty-five, the Circle's original stated purpose was "To strengthen the Social affections and disseminate useful communications among its members." Meetings, devoted to conversation, held at members' homes Tuesday evenings October-March. Members of the Circle prepare biographies of those among "Rhedora This charm wasted on the earth their number who have died. These biographies are collected Tell them. dear, that 2 sycl WCTE made for seeing. Then Benuty is hts ON excuse for beings from time to time and published under the title Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord (seven volumes may twenty-Atto Hineteen hundred and three published to date). Membership has from the beginning included the individuals active in local politics and influential in various spheres both in Concord and beyond. SCOPE AND CONTENT: Manuscript and printed records, 1794-2005, include: bound volume of records 1794-1882, transcribed in hand of John Shepard Keyes (including membership lists, constitution, minutes); ms. authorization to publish first volume of Memoirs (published in 1882 under title The Centennial of the Social Circle in Concord), signed by members; ms. words of presentation to E.R. Hoar of gift in honor of his fiftieth anniversary as member, 1890; printed menu for Circle's dinner at celebration of centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, 1903; two bound volumes of transcribed ms. memoirs of members, 1871-1910 (including biographies found in first five volumes of the printed Memoirs); ms. memoir of Humphrey Barrett by and in hand of Nathan Brooks, [1856] (published in 1882 in volume of Memoirs); notes by Nathan Brooks on Tilly Merrick and William Parkman; ms. memoirs of Jonathan Fay by Jonathan Fay Barrett, 1859 (published in 1882 in first volume of Memoirs); file of John Shepard Keyes materials relating to Barrett family members (ms. information on Punkatasset Farm, written by George Tolman to Edward Waldo Emerson, 1906 Apr. 3; ms. notes on Humphrey Barrett; ms. transcription of biography by Nathan Brooks of Humphrey Barrett; ALS, 1862 Nov. 25, Richard Barrett to "Friend Keyes"; ms. biography of Richard Barrett by and in hand of J.S. Keyes, published in 1907 Memoirs, Third Series; ms. biographies of Nathan Barrett and Nathan Barrett, Jr., by and in hand of J.S. Keyes, both 1869, both published in 1888 Memoirs, Second Series; undated receipt for payment to Nathan Barrett by Miss Nancy Shephard); printed Memoirs (seven volumes, 1882-2005), and the Circle's The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903). SOURCES OF ACQUISITION: Partially established. Volume of transcribed records, 1794-1882: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/fin_aids/social_circle.htm 1/11/2014 Social Circle in Concord records, 1794-2005. Page 2 of 4 gift of Amelia F. Emerson, Raymond Emerson, and heirs of Edward W. Forbes, 1972 Apr. 3. Two volumes of transcribed memoirs: gift of the Social Circle in Concord. Seventh series of printed Memoirs presented by the Social Circle via Timothy M. Warren, 2006. ASSOCIATED MATERIALS: The Social Circle maintains its own separate collection of ongoing organizational records, which are deposited in the William Munroe Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library. NOTES/COMMENTS: Notes on lives of Tilly Merrick and William Parkman transferred from the old CFPL Letter Files (formerly Letter 9, M4 and P1), 1995 Mar. J.S. Keyes Barrett material: transferred from John Shepard Keyes papers, 1996. PROCESSED BY: LPW; finding aid prepared 09/15/1996. Prepared for the Internet by Peter K. Steinberg, 05/30/2006. Please click this link to access an index to the Social Circle memoirs. CONTAINER LIST SERIES I. GENERAL RECORDS, 1794-1903: Box 1, Folder 1: Bound volume of records, 1794-1882, transcribed by John Shepard Keyes. Box 1, Folder 2: Loose items, [1882]-1903: Ms. authorization to publish first volume of Social Circle Memoirs (The Centennial of the Social Circle in Concord, March 21, 1882), signed by members. Ms. words of presentation to E.R. Hoar of gift in honor of his fiftieth anniversary as member, 1890. Printed menu for Circle's dinner for Ralph Waldo Emerson centenary, 1903. SERIES II. MANUSCRIPT MEMOIRS OF MEMBERS, [18--?]-1910 (BULK [1856]-1910): Shelved unboxed: Two bound volumes of transcribed ms. memoirs of members, 1871-1910 (including biographies contained in the first five volumes of printed Memoirs). Box 2, Folder 1: Ms. memoir of Humphrey Barrett by and in hand of Nathan Brooks, [1856] (published in 1882 in first volume of Memoirs), and notes by Nathan Brooks on Tilly Merrick and William Parkman. Box 2, Folder 2: Jonathan Fay Barrett memoir of Jonathan Fay, 1859. Box 2, Folder 3: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/fin_aids/social_circle.htm 1/11/2014 Social Circle in Concord records, 1794-2005. Page 3 of 4 John Shepard Keyes materials relating to Barrett family members, [18--?]-1906: Ms. information on Punkatasset Farm, written by George Tolman to Edward Waldo Emerson, 1906 Apr. 3. Ms. notes on Humphrey Barrett. Ms. transcription of biography by Nathan Brooks of Humphrey Barrett, published in 1882 in The Centennial of the Social Circle in Concord (the first volume of Memoirs), originally written [185-?]. ALS, 1862 Nov. 25, Richard Barrett to "Friend Keyes." Ms. biography of Richard Barrett by and in hand of John Shepard Keyes, published in 1907 in Memoirs, Third Series. Ms. biographies of Nathan Barrett and Nathan Barrett, Jr., by and in hand of John Shepard Keyes, both 1869, both published in 1888 in Memoirs, Second Series. Undated receipt for payment to Nathan Barrett by Miss Nancy Shephard. SERIES III: PUBLISHED VOLUMES, 1882-2005: Shelved unboxed: The Centennial of the Social Circle in Concord, March 21, 1882 (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1882). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Second Series, from 1795 to 1840 (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1888). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Third Series, from 1840 to 1895 (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1907). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fourth Series, from 1895 to 1909 (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1909). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Fifth Series, from 1909 to 1939 (Cambridge: The University Press, 1940). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Sixth Series, from 1939 to 1974 ([Clinton, Mass.: Colonial Press], 1975). Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, Seventh Series, from 1975 to 2004 ([Woburn, Mass.: Pride Printers], 2005). The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, As Observed in Concord, May 25, 1903 Under the Direction of the Social Circle in Concord ([Cambridge]: Riverside Press, 1903). c2006 Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Not to be reproduced in any form without permission of the Curator of Special Collections, Concord http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/fin_aids/social_circle.htm 1/11/2014 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 you 000 000 m New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR gleason herbert wendell Concord Search Record 113 of 119 Record: Prev Next Title Thoreau Centenary : it has seemed most fitting that, in Concord where Thoreau was born one hundred years ago where he lived his life rejoicing to find it the best place in the world and added to its fame by his writings, the anniversary of his birth should be called to the minds of this generation. , 1917 Oct. 19. Publication info. Concord, Mass. : Edward D. Dee, Printer. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.20 Item 18 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Oversize Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 28 X 36 cm. Note Town Hall, Concord, Mass., Thurs., Oct. 25, 8:00 p.m. Performer Edward Emerson, personal recollections; Herbert W. Gleason, stereopticon presentation. Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Anniversaries, etc. Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Concord (Mass.) -- History. Added author Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930. Gleason, Herbert Wendell, 1855-1937. Edward D. Dee (Firm : Concord, Mass.) Record 113 of 119 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/agleason+herbert+wendell/agleason+herbert+wendell/ 9/8/2007 Thoreau's world: Viewing life from inside a glass house' By Constance Gorfinkle their own future, as well as à challenge Massachusetts Horticultural Society), Patriot Ledger Staff to restore fame to an artist long- After Gleason, who had no heirs. died forgotten by the public. in 1937. his photographs got lost. he first thing that strikes a Gleason. born in 1855 in Malden, was Their reappearance about 10 years later T visitor to the Hingham home a minister before he decided that what is a. wonderful story." says Mills. of Heather Conover and Nick he really wanted to do was take pictures. Roland Robbins, a photohistorian and Mills is the stacks of wooden His main interests, conservation and Thoreau scholar (who found the site of boxes piled just to the right of Thoreau, were expressed in his work. a Thoreau's cabin in 1946), was having the front door. comprehensive photographic documen- work done by a photography company in "Those are the plates." says Conover, tation of Thoreau's journals and Boston when the proprietor mentioned referring to the collection of five-by- thousands of pictures of the still- he had some Thoreau pictures in his seven glass negatives by turn-of-the- unspoiled parts of this land. attic, and would Robbins like to Took at century photographer Herbert W Besides photographing national parks them? Gleason that Conover and Mills bought a and wilderness areas (at the invitation 'They were the photographs Gleason little over a year ago. of his friend Stephen Mather, first took for Thoreau's journals. Robbins The plates. 6,300 of them, have director of the National Park Service) couldn't afford to buy them at that time. become the center of the newlywed Gleason frequently focused his camera But when the man said he could have the couple's existence, an investment for on flower shows (many run by the pictures for only $100, Robbins took 'Heavy Snow in Hubbard's Close, Concord, 1902. ( them. "About a year later. the photography company moved, and the owner gave Robbins the rest of the collection for nothing. "So for $100," says Mills, "Robbins got 8,000 plates." These included the pictures Gleason took to document naturalist John Muir's journals about the West, a Sierra Club expedition up Mt. Ranier and a segment devoted to Canada. A couple of years ago, Robbins, in his seventies, decided to sell the collection. By the time Mills heard about it, the Canadian segment had already been purchased by a -museum in Canada. Mills, an amateur photographer who knew Robbins, approached "Robbie about buying the rest of the collection. The Canadian museum and the Univer- sity of Wyoming, which was interested in buying the Western segment, had both assessed the collection," says Mills. "And since their valuations per plate were the same, we accepted what that came out to for the whole collection as a fair price." Mills won't divulge what that was, except to say, lot." Now, Conover, a former planner for Massport, and Mills, news director at WITS radio in Boston, smile wanly at Staff photo by Tom Tajima the plates as they figure it will take a year to catalogue them. After that, Nick Mills and Heather Conover of Hingham sort through some of they'l be ready to go into the brand new the thousands of glass negatives in their collection. metal files in their dining room, safe from uneven climatic conditions that So far, the cataloguing of the plates is Press project, an ambitious under- can damage the sensitive chemical progressing slowly. "I'm trying to do 30 taking that could take years. the emulsions on the negatives. a day," says Heather. But their recent publication of all Thoreau's works in an With a large financial investment at wedding and an upcoming ski trip to annotated version and in hardback and stake, the couple already have gone into New York State with Heather's parents paperback versions, which would be business with the plates and have (who live in England) are cutting into illustrated by prints from Heather and published a calendar for 1982 entitled their time. Nick's glass plates. "Through the Year with Thoreau." The So the collection waits patiently in the But the plates are not all the couple evocative black-and-white photographs wooden boxes where many of them have got from Roland Robbins. "As a bonus. used to illustrate the calendar include sat untouched since Gleason himself last Robbie gave us his books and files. snowy pathways in Concord, an icy handled them. "They're all carefully says Nick. "To learn about Gleason we shoreline on Walden Pond, a field of labeled," says Heather, pointing out had to learn about Thoreau. And the dandelions in Emerson's orchard. that a large number of the envelopes first thing we learned about Thoreau is Quotes from Thoreau's journals accom- protecting the negatives bear Gleason's that the name is pronounced thorough. pany the pictures. own handwriting. These faint penciled After Christmas, Heather, Nick "and Mills made the prints for the calendar notes indicate the subject matter of the the plates will move to a three-story and Heather did the layout. "But we photograph and where and when it was house in Hull, where they have room sure have a lot to learn about marketing taken. to spread out and set up a darkroom. and distribution," says Nick ruefully. Looking ahead to the day when the They're not buying the house, only "We missed a lot of deadlines and collection is completely catalogued, renting. "We had intended to buy a haven't had the proper representation. Heather and Nick talk about exhibits, home," says Heather, "until the collec- "But we've learned a lot," chimes in "maybe at the Modern (the Museum of tion came along. Heather, who adds, "we've already Modern Art in New York)," says Nick. "That's why I refer to the plates as my started on the 1983 calendar." Then there's the Princeton University glass house. Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 1 of 3 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWO Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 000 000 320 000 XX New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), Concord Search Record 15 of 103 Record: Prev Next Author Harris, William Torrey, 1835-1909. Title Correspondence to William Torrey Harris, [1864]-1909. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL VAULT A35, CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY W.T.Harris, Unit 1 Description 193 items + enclosures. Organized alphabetically by name of correspondent; letters within each name sequence arranged chronologically. Note Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn.; died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis public schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist Bronson Alcott and F.B. Sanborn in establishing Concord School of Philosophy. In 1889, accepted position of (cont.) United States Commissioner of Education; resigned in 1906. Assistant editor of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889); The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889); Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890); The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898). Summary Includes letters to Harris from the following individuals: Louisa May Alcott (1 item, 1885); Edward Waldo Emerson (7 items + enclosure, 1891-1907); J. Holtzbecker/Holzbecker (2 items, 1882); Julia Ward Howe (6 items, 1871-1904); Mary Peabody Mann (1 item, 1883?); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (18 items + enclosure + some typed http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aSanborn%2C+F.+B.+%28Franklin+Benjamin%29... 12/31/2006 Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 2 of 3 transcripts, 1881-1888, plus one letter of uncertain authorship, possibly by E.P. Peabody); A.S. (A.L.?) Pratt (1 item, 1887); Anna B. Pratt (5 items, 1888-1890); Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (150 items + enclosures, [1864]-1909); Emily Talbot (1 item, 1881). (cont.) Some of the correspondence is in reference to the Concord School of Philosophy. Some of the Sanborn letters concern the American Social Science Association, of which both Sanborn and Harris were officers. The Concord authors provide a recurring theme in the Sanborn letters. One of the Sanborn letters (Dec. 7, 1877) refers to the death of Mrs. A.M. Alcott, one (Mar. 3, 1888) to Bronson Alcott's impending death. One Sanborn letter (Jan. 12, 1890) includes an enclosed ALS (Jan. 7, 1890) from Daniel Chester French about the designing of a bust of Alcott. The later (cont.) Sanborn letters include extensive enclosures. Some of the correspondence is accompanied by information provided by Edith Davidson Harris (W.T. Harris's daughter). Note Sanborn correspondence (complete?): available on microfilm; for use in Library. Edith Davidson Harris; gift; 1952. Cite as: Correspondence to William Torrey Harris, Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Indexes Finding aid in Library. Note Transfer from Letter file; Letter File 11, S1-S134; Letter File 13, A1, E1- E8, H1-H9, M1, P1-P17, P19-P26, S1-S4, T1; Mar. 1995; LPW Subject Harris, William Torrey, 1835-1909 -- Correspondence. American Social Science Association. Concord School of Philosophy. Authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Educators -- United States. Educators -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Philosophers - United States. Philosophers -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Genre Correspondence. Personal papers. Added author Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930. French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887. Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894. Pratt, Anna Bronson Alcott, 1831-1893. Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. Record 15 of 103 Record: Prev Next let:1082/search/aSanborn%2C+F.+B.+%28Franklin+Benjamin%29. 12/31/2006 Record #1 Format: pc LEADER cpca 22 Ia 4500 001 AEU-7465 003 OCOLC 005 19970326091739.0 008 970326i18791887mau eng d 010 o 36631239 $ 040 a CFD $c CFD $e appm $ 043 a n-usn-- $a n-us-ma $ 099 a Vault $a A35 $a W.T.Harris $a Unit 2 $ 049 a CFDA $ 100 1 a Harris, William Torrey, $d 1835-1909. $ 245 00 a William Torrey Harris Concord School of Philosophy scrapbook, $f 1879-1887. $ 246 30 a Concord School of Philosophy scrapbook $ 300 a .66 linear ft. $ 351 b Arranged chronologically. $ 545 a Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn. died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis Public Schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist A. Bronson Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in running the Concord School of Philosophy. $ 545 a (cont.) Founded in Concord, Mass., by educator, philosopher, mystic, lecturer, poet, Transcendentalist, and reformer Alcott, the Concord School of Philosophy opened in 1879. It consisted of a yearly summer session of lectures primarily on literature, education, philosophy, and spiritualism. Lecturers included Alcott, Harris, Sanborn, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ednah D. Cheney, H.K. Jones, Julia Ward Howe, T.W. Higginson, and others. The first session of the school was held in the Orchard House (the Alcott home). "Hillside Chapel" lecture hall for school $ 545 a (cont.) was built through a gift from Elizabeth Thompson. The final session was held in 1888, (year of Alcott's death). In 1889, Harris accepted position of United States Commissioner of Education; resigned 1906. Assistant editor, Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor, Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889) ; The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889) Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890) ; The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898) $ 520 8 a Scrapbook volumes, sheets of mounted clippings and other material, and loose clippings relating to sessions of the Concord School of Philosophy for 1879-1882 and 1884-1887. Contents consist primarily of printed programs and other printed ephemera, newspaper and magazine accounts of the school, and articles containing biographies of speakers and synopses of lectures. $ 541 a Edith Davidson Harris; $c gift; $d 1952. $ 555 8 a Finding aid in Library. $ 524 a William Torrey Harris Concord School of Philosophy Scrapbook, Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. $ 600 10 a Alcott, Amos Bronson, $d 1799-1888. $ Letters to William Torrey Harris, 1864-1909 Page 1 of 15 1835 LETTERS TO WILLIAM TORREY HARRIS, [1864]-1909 Vault A35, W.T.Harris, Unit 1 192 items + enclosures (1 container) ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Organized alphabetically by name of correspondent. Letters within each name sequence arranged chronologically. BIOGRAPHY: Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn.; died Nov. 5 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis public schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist Bronson Alcott and Franklin B. Sanborn in managing Concord School of Philosophy. In 1889, accepted position of United States Commissioner of Education; resigned in 1906. Assistant editor of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889); The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divinia Commedia (1889); Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890); The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898). SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes letters to Harris from the following individuals: Louisa May Alcott (1885); Edward Waldo Emerson (1891-1907); E.J. Holtzbecker/Holzbecker (1882); Julia Ward Howe (1871-1904); Mary Peabody Mann (1883?); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1881-1888, plus one letter of uncertain authorship, possibly by E. P. Peabody); A.L. Pratt (1887); Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (1888-1890); Franklin Benjamin Sanborn ([1864]-1909); Emily Talbot (1881). Some of the letters refer to the Concord School of Philosophy. Some of the Sanborn letters concern the American Social Science Association, of which both Sanborn and Harris were officers. The Concord authors provide a recurring theme in the Sanborn letters. Two letters (1866 Apr. 26 and William Torrey Harris 1894 Feb. 16) address Sanborn's interest in prison reform. One of the Sanborn letters (1877 and Dec. 7) refers to the death of Mrs. A.M. Alcott, several (1888) to Bronson Alcott's Elizabeth Palmer Peabody impending and actual death. Bronson Alcott's memorial service is discussed in the letter of by the June 4, 1888. Several of the Sanborn letters (1889-1890) refer to subscriptions for and work http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Harris_WT_letters.htn 11/6/2006 Letters to William Torrey Harris, 1864-1909 Page 2 of 15 on a bust of Alcott; one letter (1890 Jan. 2) includes an enclosed ALS (1890 Jan. 7) from Daniel Chester French about the designing of the bust. Many letters from 1892 discuss A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy (published 1893), which Harris and Sanborn wrote together. One letter (1894 Jan. 13) mentions William Ellery Channing's poor health. The presidential candidates of 1896 are discussed in letters of that year. Many later letters contain opinions and references on topics including Goethe and philosophy. Letters from late 1899 discuss "The Alcott Centennial." The death of William Ellery Channing is mentioned in one letter (1901 Dec. 23), and subsequent letters mention Sanborn's plans for a book on Channing. The later Sanborn letters include extensive enclosures. Some of the letters are accompanied by information provided by Edith Davidson Harris (W.T. Harris's daughter). SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: Gift of Edith Davidson Harris, 1952/1953. NOTES/COMMENTS: Sanborn letters (complete?) available on microfilm, for use in Library. Transferred from Letter File (Mar. 1995): Letter File 11, S1-S134; Letter File 13, A1, E1-E8, H1-H9, M1, P1-P17, P19-P26, S1-S4, T1. PROCESSED BY: LPW, 1995; expanded and prepared for mounting by RJA, 2004. CONTAINER LIST Folder 1. Alcott, Louisa May ([1885]; one item): ALS, LMA, Nonquit, to WTH, [1885] July 25. Folder 2. Emerson, Edward Waldo (1891-1907; seven items, plus enclosure): ALS, EWE, Concord, to WTH, 1891 Jan. 19. ALS, EWE, Concord, to WTH, 1891 Feb. 7. ALS, EWE, Concord, to WTH, 1891 Feb. 23. ALS, EWE, Concord, to WTH, [1893] Mar. 21. ALS, EWE, Concord, to WTH, 1896 May 10, plus enclosure (typed copies of two letters to the editor of The Critic, 1886 Feb. 6 and Feb. 9; two pages). http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Harris_WT_letters.htr 11/6/2006 CELEBRATING THE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON Page 1 of 4 Sponsored by Juice Plus: the Concord Table of Contents Sponsorship Juice PLUS: Magazine Search Our Site Reading List 21st Century Nutrition Subscribe Contact Us Back Issues ConcordMA.com 17 Fruits and Veggies in capsules & Back Next Autumn2002 delicious chewables! Click Here Corean good Celebrating the Landscape Photography of Herbert Wendell Gleason By Leslie Perrin Wilson, Curator of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library. (click on images below for a larger view) Four local institutions will celebrate the landscapes of Herbert Wendell Gleason, famous photographer of Concord and places beyond. The collaborative fall display and lecture series are titled "Yours, for the Conservation of Natural Beauty: The Landscape Photography of Herbert Wendell Gleason." From October 4 through December 31, the Concord Free Public Library will feature more than fifty-five of Gleason's Concord images. In October, the Concord Art Association will focus on Gleason's artistry through an overview of his work. In October and November, the Minute Man National Historical Park will highlight national park images in its display "For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People", and, in September and October, Fruitlands Museums will present in "Lens and Landscape" a selection from Gleason's Massachusetts landscape photographs. Note cards and postcards will be available for purchase at the time of the exhibition. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn02/gleasonfest.html 12/9/2006 CELEBRATING THE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON Page 2 of 4 Dale Schwie, Gleason biographer, will open the lecture series on Sunday, October 6, at 3:00 p.m. in the Concord Free Public Library. Photographer Frank Gohlke will speak on Sunday, October 20, at 4:00 p.m. at the Concord Art Association, environmental historian Brian Donahue on Sunday, October 27, at 3:00 at the Minute Man Visitor Center (Route 2A/The Battle Road, Exit 30B off 128). The Concord Free Public Library holds a rich and extensive archive relating to Herbert Wendell Gleason, an early 20th century American landscape photographer and environmentalist. The library's Special Collections include some 7,000 Gleason negatives on glass and film, the only known surviving original slide lecture by the photographer, albums of Concord- and Thoreau-related images compiled by Gleason himself, Gleason correspondence and lecture notes, and printed and archival items containing photographs by or information about him. (See an archived article about the library's Gleason collection.) Purchased by the library in two accessions (in 1954 and 1997), Gleason's negatives -- meticulously captioned and dated by the photographer -- present tremendous and hitherto largely unrealized research and publication possibilities. In 1997 and 2000, the Special Collections received grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange, describe, and create access to these images. The upcoming collaborative exhibitions and lecture series have been planned to mark the completion of this work Gleason was born in Malden in 1855. A Congregational minister, editor of and contributor to the Northwest Congregationalist (later known as The Kingdom), he lived in Minnesota from 1883 until 1899. In 1899, he returned to New England and devoted his full attention to photography. An admirer of Thoreau, he made photographic pilgrimages to Concord between 1899 and his death in 1937, shooting the landscape features that Thoreau had described in his journal. Gleason's images illustrated the 1906 Walden and Manuscript Editions of Thoreau's writings, as did his carefully researched map of Concord places frequented by Thoreau. Although Concord was especially important to him, Gleason's work was wide-ranging. He photographed many places in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Washington State, Alaska, and Canada. Appointed Interior Department Inspector by his friend Stephen Mather (first director of the National Park Service), he documented established national parks and potential parklands with his camera. He took photographs of the horticultural http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn02/gleasonfest.html 12/9/2006 CELEBRATING THE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON Page 3 of 4 experiments of his friend Luther Burbank in California and of places associated with John Muir, whose writings were illustrated with Gleason images. A photographer for the Arnold Arboretum, he documented gardens and flower show exhibits as well. He enjoyed a considerable reputation as a slide lecturer. While Gleason is best known for his shots of the natural world, he also photographed the built and human landscape. The upcoming Gleason celebration will suggest the many subjects and the broad scope of the photographer's work, from transcendent panoramic view to busy village scene. On October 4, the opening date for the display at the Concord Free Public Library, a permanent on-line version of "Gleason's Concord" will become available for viewing on the CFPL web site. To access it, go to Special Collections, then click to the Gleason Exhibit. (Thanks to Debbie Bier of the Concord Magazine for helpful advice in the design of this site!) I urge you all to take the time to visit "Yours, for the Conservation of Natural Beauty" at each of its four venues. Gleason's environmental vision and his place in the history of photography can be fully appreciated only through exploration of the many facets of his work. Photos (click on images for a larger view): Top: The Walden image is also from a hand-colored slide, captioned "Walden in winter (arching limb)." Middle: The spectacular photo with Gleason in it is titled "Mount Temple from the Saddle (Herbert W. Gleason in foreground), British Columbia, July 6, 1905." Bottom: The coastal scene is titled "Fish wharf, with flakes, Provincetown, Cape Cod, October 22, 1903." All courtesy of the Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library. Background: The tree border image is from a Gleason hand-colored glass lantern slide captioned "Trees reflected in river." Back Next ConcordMA.com This website is a gift to the Concord community from ConcordMA.com, a full-service Internet design and marketing company. 978 369-0113. PO Box 285, Concord, MA 01742 414J http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn02/gleasonfest.html 12/9/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Concord Pamphlet Collection Page 1 of 3 HOME I General Info I Fowler 1 News/Events I Catalogs I Reference I Special Collections Children Young Adult HOME: : General Info: Fowlen News/Events Catalogs Reference: it Special Collections Children: The Concord Free Public Library SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Concord, Massachusetts Site Search ; Index The Concord Pamphlet Collection Finding Aids The Concord Pamphlet Collection encompasses many types Photo of material touching on a wide range of topics. It includes Orders/Repro pamphlets, speeches, sermons, brochures, articles, reprints, Permissions/Most Requested serial publications, research papers, an array of ephemera Images (tickets and programs to special events, advertising and publicity material, menus, bank checks, and topical postage Online Exhibits stamps among them), clippings, and sketches. Illuminating Thoreau Surveys Concord life from the town's settlement in 1635 to the present day, the collection consists of some three hundred Historic Buildings archival boxes plus six oversize file drawers offering Website information about aspects of Concord's history, its authors Wheeler and residents, organizations, politics and government, Genealogy libraries, schools, churches, historic buildings and museums, hospital, and businesses. Emerson Concordance Gravemarker Data Major Concord Pamphlet Topics Events/Exhibits Emerson and Emerson family A Brief History of Concord Hawthorne and Hawthorne family Oral History Collection William Torrey Harris http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/C_PAM.html 11/9/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Concord Pamphlet Collection Page 2 of 3 Staff Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, George Frisbie Hoar, Other Resources Hoar family Edward Jarvis Thoreau, Thoreau family, Thoreau organizations Grindall Reynolds Ezra Ripley, Ripley family, Brook Farm Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Sanborn family William Willder Wheildon A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Alcott and May families Daniel Chester French, French and Cresson families Concord people ( A-Z, authors and others not assigned separate classification numbers ) Politics and government Concord Free Public Library and its predecessors Schools ( public and private ) Description ( including geology, geography, plant and animal life, and tourist guides ) History ( including extensive material on the Battle of Concord and April 19th anniversary celebrations, on the North Bridge and surrounding area, and on http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/C_PAM.html 11/9/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Concord Pamphlet Collection Page 3 of 3 the Minute Man National Historical Park; also, materials on special aspects of Concord history, such as farming, transportation, and Concord Lyceum ) Historic buildings Concord organizations ( extensive material relating to Concord Antiquarian Society and Concord Museum, to Concord churches, and to a wide range of other organizations, among them the Freemasons, Social Circle, Concord Choral Club and other musical organizations, Concord Players, Concord Art Association, Concord Woman's Club, temperance organizations, Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance and Walden Woods Project, Emerson Hospital, and social service organizations such as the Concord Soldiers' Aid Society and the Concord Friendly Aid Society ) Social life ( balls and parties ) Commerce Media and communications Retrospective online cataloging of the Concord Pamphlet Collection was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Materials in the collection may be searched through the database of the Minuteman Library Network. c 2004, The Concord Free Public Library I How to Give http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/C_PAM.html 11/9/2006 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-193. Page 1 of 13 ROLAND WELLS ROBBINS AND CONOVER-MILLS PUBLICATIONS RECORDS OF THE CUSTODIANSHIP OF THE ROBBINS-MILLS COLLECTION OF HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES 1900-1988 Vault A45, Gleason, Unit 2 THROUGHTHE YEAR WITH THOREAU 1982 Calendar "SAMPLIFY,SIMPLIFY" With the early photographs of Herbert W. Gleason EXTENT: 7.5 linear feet (14 boxes). ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Organized into five series: Series I. Gathered biographical research on, and papers of, Herbert Wendell Gleason, 1900-1987; Series II. Records on the custodianship anduse of the Gleason negatives, 1954-1988; Series III. Inventories and subject "sets" or lists of Herbert Wendell Gleason photographic negatives, 1960s-1980s; Series IV. Publications reflecting use of the Gleason negatives, 1918-1984; Series V. Photographic prints and negatives, circa 1899-1980s. Series V is divided into subseries (see series/subseries listing below). Series are arranged chronologically with the exception of Series V, Subseries V.A, which is arranged to reflect the organization of the photographic negatives in the Robbins Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives of Images of Concord, Mass., 1899-1937 in the William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library (Vault B5 Unit 6; finding aid at http://www.concordlibrary.org/special- collections/fin_aids/Gleason) https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/Fin_Aids/gleason_collguide 8/27/2019 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-193 Page 2 of 13 HISTORY: Roland Wells Robbins (1908-1987) was an archeologist prior to the professionalization of the field, a historian, and a businessman whose occupations focused mainly on Henry David Thoreau and his world. Robbins is known for finding and excavating the site of Thoreau's cabin in 1945. In 1949, he purchased a collection of Thoreauvian photographer Herbert Wendell Gleason's photographic negatives from the A.D. Handy Company and subsequently began to organize, document and promote the collection. His entrepreneurial efforts in the collection resulted in the sale of part of the collection to Concord Free Public Library in 1953, and the use of the photograph in numerous magazines and books including Thoreau Country by Herbert Wendell Gleason, published by Sierra Club Books in 1975. Robbins also sold most of Gleason's Canadian negatives to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1979. In 1980, Heather Conover and her then-husband Nick Mills, a professional photographer, purchased the collection from Roland Wells Robbins. Together, they formed the Herbert Wendell Gleason Collection (a partnership) and Conover-Mills Publications in 1981, and as Conover-Mills Publications, proceeded to further inventory, promote and publish the Gleason images. Their work with the collection included multipl calendars in the early 1980s, publications by the Walden Pond State Reservation, and an exhibit t the De Cordova Museum. Mills sold the collection to the Concord Free Public Library in 1997. SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection documents the care and use of the Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives and supplements that collection. The bulk of the collection is comprised of letters regarding the use of the collection and photographic prints of images taken by Herbert Wendell Gleason. The prints contains images both from the Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives and images not found in the Gleason collection. The collection also includes clippings, magazines, ephemera (such as pamphlets), and some photographic negatives (not by Gleason). Both Robbins and Conover-Mills Publications collected information about Herbert Wendell Gleason; as a result the collection includes some material from Gleason's time, 1900-1937. The bulk of the collection was generated and gathered by Roland Wells Robbins, 1940-1980. Both custodians of the photograph negatives kept many photocopies in addition to original materials, as a result, the date spans of major components of this collection are presented in this finding aid reflect the time periods during which photocopied material was gathered rather than when the originals were generated. SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: The bulk of the collection was acquired in 1997 with the Robbins- Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937. RELATED COLLECTIONS: https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/Fin_Aids/gleason_collguide 8/27/2019 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-193 Page 3 of 13 Herbert Wendell Gleason Papers, [1905]-1937. William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library (Vault A45, Gleason, Unit 1; finding aid at http://www.concordlibrary.org/special-collections/fin_aids/Gleason_papers) Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937. William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library (Vault B5 Unit 14, finding aid at http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_collguide.html), Robbins Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives of Images of Concord, Mass., 1899-1937. William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library (Vault B5 Unit 6; finding aid at http://www.concordlibrary.org/special collections/fin_aids/Gleason) Herbert Wendell Gleason slide lecture "Thoreau's Country" (a lecture on Henry David Thoreau's Concord and surrounding areas), [ca. 1915-1917, with later additions] . William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library (Vault B5, Unit 15; finding aid at http://www.concordlibrary.org/special- collections/fin_aids/Gleason_Thoreau) See also the list of Gleason-related materials in other library collections in the finding aid of Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives: http://www.concordlibrary.org/special- ollections/fin_aids/Gleason/gleason_related. PUBLICATION BASED ON USE OF PAPERS: Wilson, Leslie Perrin. "The Herbert Wendell Gleason Negatives in the Concord Free Public Library: Odyssey of a Collection," The Concord Saunterer N. S. 7 (1999), 175- 199. PROCESSED BY: Janaya Kizzie, 2016 with the assistance of volunteer Carol Gannon Prelinary processing by volunteer Ronald Epp. Finding aid completed June 2016. SERIES/SUBSERIES LISTING https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/Fin_Aids/gleason_collguide 8/27/2019 Provenance and Source of Acquisition - Kobbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell GI Page I of I Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library - Special Collections PROVENANCE AND SOURCE OF ACQUISITION Some time around Gleason's death in 1937, the A.D. Handy Company (a photographic lab in Boston) came into the possession of Gleason's working file of over 7,000 glass plate and film negatives. (The specifics of their acquisition by the Handy Company are still unclear.) While excavating the Thoreau house site at Walden Pond in 1945, Roland Wells Robbins (archaeologist, historian, Thoreauvian, and resident of Lincoln, MA) brought film to the Handy Company to be processed. In 1948, someone at the company brought the negatives to Robbins' attention. Robbins purchased some of the negatives and was later given the rest of the collection. In 1954, Robbins offered all of the Concord negatives for sale to the Concord Free Public Library. The Library Trustees agreed to purchase about 700 of them (glass plate and film), leaving Robbins 730 Concord and Thoreau-related negatives and the bulk of the collection including images of other subjects. In 1979, Roland Robbins sold Gleason's Canadian images to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. In 1980, he sold the remainder of the collection to Nick Mills and Heather Conover. Mills and Conover sold most of the Yosemite negatives to the Yosemite Museum in 1989. In 1997, Mills and Conover contacted the Concord Free Public Library, were made a modest offer for the rest of the collection (over 6,000 negatives), and negotiated a bargain purchase agreement with the Library. Back to Collection Guide Library Home . Special Collections Home Concord Free Public Library Concord, MA 01742 http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_provenance.html 2/14/2007 Related Materials - Robbins-MillS Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Page 1 of 3 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason FIDIFIBIE Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library - Special Collections RELATED MATERIALS AT THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: Robbins Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives of Images of Concord, Mass., 1899-1937. 706 photonegatives. Purchased from Roland Robbins in 1954. Arranged, described, cataloged on-line, and microfilmed through a 1997 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The finding aid for the collection is available on the CFPL Special Collections webpage (www.concordnet.org) "Thoreau's Country." An orginal slide lecture (consisting of 92 hand-colored glass lantern slides) purchased from Herbert W. Gleason in 1936. Two sets of albums of Concord and Thoreau-related Gleason prints, mounted on guards and captioned by the photographer. 12 volumes in total. One set purchased from Gleason in 1922, one set purchased (accessioned?) in 1938. Gleason Papers (consisting of notes, correspondence, and other materials). A small collection, as yet uncataloged. Several miscellaneous collections of Gleason prints. Printed materials containing images by Gleason or information about Gleason. For example: the 1906 Manuscript and Walden editions of Thoreau's writings; Through the Year with Thoreau (1917); Thoreau Country (Sierra Club, 1975); George Crossette, The Western Wilderness of North America (1972); William F. Robinson, A Certain Slant of Light: The First Hundred Years of New England Photography (1980). RELATED MATERIALS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS: Arnold Arboretum Library and Archives 125 Arborway Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-522-1086 hortlib@arnarb.harvard.edu Boston Public Library Print Department P.O. Box 286 Boston, MA 02117 617-536-5400 ext.2280 www.bpl.org http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_related.html 2/14/2007 Materials - 01 VV UICASOII r notograpito Colorado Historical Society Colorado History Museum 1300 Broadway Denver, CO 80203-2137 303-866-4598 Duke University Library Special Collections Durham, NC 27706 919-660-5822 George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film 900 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14607 716-271-3361 J. Paul Getty Museum Dept. of Photographs 401 Wilshire Boulevard, 7th Floor Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455 310-458-9811 Glenbow Museum 130 9th Avenue S.E. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2G OP3 403-268-4204 Metropolitan Museum of Art Dept. of Photographs Fifth Avenue at 82nd St. New York, NY 10028-0198 212-570-3889 Oakland Museum Prints & Photographs, Art Dept. 1000 Oak Street Oakland, CA 94607 510-238-3005 San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park U.S. Dept. of the Interior/National Park Service Fort Mason, Building E San Francisco, CA 94123 415-556-9876 Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens J. Horace McFarland Collection Arts and Industries Building, Room 2282 Washington, DC 20560 http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_related.html 2/14/2007 Related Materials - Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Page 3 of 3 Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives MRC 152 Natural History Building 10th and Constitution, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20560-0152 Yosemite Museum National Park Service P.O. Box 577 Yosemite, CA 95389 209-372-0200 Herbert W. Gleason Sierra Club Papers, 1907-1915 Finding aid available (filed under Sierra Club members papers) The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 McFarland Papers Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Pennsylvania State Archives 350 North Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090 717-783-3281 John Muir Papers Holt-Atherton Special Collections University Library University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA 95211 209-946-2945 Thomas Sadler Roberts Papers University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus University Archives Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-0562 uar@tc.umn.edu Back to Collection Guide Library Home . Special Collections Home Concord Free Public Library . Concord, MA 01742 http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_related.html 2/14/2007 Biography - Robbins-VI1lIS Collection or Herbert wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives Page I of 2 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason FIDIFIELS Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library - Special Collections Series Descriptions and Inventories Series I - Minnesota, Isle Royale, And Michigan, 1899-1937 Series description Series inventory Series II - Concord, Massachusetts, 1899-1937 Series description Series inventory Series III - Massachusetts, 1899-1937 Series description Series inventory Series IV - Maine, New Hamsphire, and Connecticut, 1900-1937 Series description Series inventory Series V - Homes and Gardens of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, 1923-1937 Series description Series inventory Series VI - Arnold Arboretum, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Harvard University, New England Flower Shows, and Nurseries, 1909-1937 Series description Series inventory Series VII - New York and Pennsylvania, 1911-1921 Series description Series inventory Series VIII - Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and North Dakota, 1899- 1928 Series description Series inventory Series IX - Montana, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Texas, 1906- 1925 Series description http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/Gleason/gleason_seriestoc.html 2/14/2007 ine Concord Free Public Library: Special Conections Finding Aias Page I of 11 HOME General Info I Fowler I News/Events Catalogs I Reference Special Collections Children Young Adult HOMEM General Infa Fowler to News/Events: Catalogs Reference: Special The Concord Free Public Library SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Concord, Massachusetts Site Search / Index SELECTED FINDING AIDS Collections The finding aids available here represent only a Search Photo portion of the archival and manuscript holdings Orders/Repro of the Concord Free Public Library. For Permissions/Most Requested descriptions of other collections, and of single www Town Images manuscripts, search the database of the webpages Minuteman Library Network. Online Exhibits Thoreau Surveys Historic Buildings Special Collections has more than 125 finding Website aids online. To locate a specific name in the Finding Aids list, click on one of the alphabetical Wheeler Genealogy links below, or use F on your Web browser and type in a keyword. Emerson Concordance A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - Gravemarker N - o - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Data Events/Exhibits A A Brief History of Concord A. Bronson Alcott Papers, 1843-1882 Oral History Collection Louisa May Alcott Papers, [1847]-1887 Staff Alcott Books: Books from the Libraries of Amos Other Resources Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, and Members of Their Immediate Family, 1824-1887 Alcott-Nieriker-Pratt Family Correspondence, [1856]-1912 Esther Howe Wheeler Anderson Collection of Herb Publications, 1892-1972 (bulk 1936-1945) Collection of Autograph Books Connected http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 2 of 11 Primarily with Concord, Mass., Residents, 1841- 1904 [Back to top] B Morton Baker Papers Relating to the Mill Brook and the Mill Brook Task Force of Concord, Mass., 1859-2000 (bulk 1994-2000) Barrett Family Property and Financial Papers, 1734-1860 Annie Keyes Bartlett Letters to Edward Jarvis Bartlett, 1860-1865 Bartlett-Jackson Family Papers, 1832-1966 Norman Beecher and Nancy Bartram Beecher Correspondence, 1941-1952 Alan C. Bemis Automotive Papers, 1946-1959 Nancy Bond Papers, 1972-1996 Bowers Family papers, 1861-1974 (bulk 1861) Eleazer Brooks Papers, 1776-1793 Captain David Brown Letters, 1792-1800 Reuben Brown Account Books, 1748-1832 Simon Brown Papers, 1796-1872 (bulk 1834- 1872) Bulkeley Family Papers, 1621-1758 Ephraim Wales Bull Papers, 1825-1889 (bulk 1825-1864) [Back to top] C Kenneth Walter Cameron Collection of Material http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 ine Concora Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 3 of 11 Relating Primarily to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1811-1985 Henry Allen Castle Glass Plate Negative Collection of Images Primarily of Concord, Mass., [ca. 1900-ca. 1906] William Ellery Channing Papers, 1843-1901 John Chisholm Collection of Concord, Mass., Town Financial Records, 1844-1878 Colonial Inn Records, 1904-1926 Records of Conantum Garden Club, 1953-1997 Concord Antiquarian Society Collection, 1422- 1957 (bulk 1676-1957) Concord Antiquarian Society Music Collection, 1790-[1861] Concord-Carlisle Community Chest Collection, 1946-2000 Records of the Concord Committee of Arrangements for the Celebration in Concord of the Centennial of the Concord Fight, 1873-1876 Concord Dance Hostess Committee Records, 1941-1946 Concord Farmers' Club Records, 1852-1883 Concord Female Charitable Society Records, 1814-1943 Concord Lyceum Records, 1828-1928 Records of Concord Massachusetts Woman's Club, 1895-ongoing Concord Mill Dam Company Records, 1826-1854 Concord Social Library Records, 1820-1851 Concord Soldiers' Aid Society Records, 1861- http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 4 of 11 1865 Concord Tercentenary Committee Records, 1934-1935 [Back to top] D Damon Family Papers, 1819-[ca. 1885] [Back to top] E Edward Waldo Emerson and Emerson Family Papers, 1845-1971 (bulk 1876-1922) Ellen Tucker Emerson Music Collection, 1855- 1894 Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Notebooks, 1819-1875 (Typed Transcripts, 1929-1938) Ralph Waldo Emerson Papers, 1835-1871 Emerson Family Correspondence, 1827-1957 Emerson Books: Books from the Libraries of Ralph Waldo Emerson and of Other Members of the Emerson Family, or Otherwise Associated with the Emersons, 1780-1899. Everett-Price-Tuttle Family Papers, 1828- [ca. 1965] (bulk 1846-1925) [Back to top] F Mary R. Fenn Collection of Concord-Related Materials, [1843]-1966 Malcolm M. Ferguson Papers Accumulated Through Membership in Organizations for the Preservation and Restoration of Walden Pond, 1957-1975 (bulk 1973-1975) http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Special Collections Finding Aids Page 6 of 11 Nathaniel Hawthorne Papers, 1848-[1863] Hawthorne Family Correspondence, 1865-1935 Hawthorne Books: Volumes from the Library of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Family, or Otherwise Associated with the Hawthornes, 1822-1852 Heywood Family Papers, 1735-1932 (bulk 1825- 1932) Hoar Family Papers, 1738-1958 (bulk 1815- 1935) Hoar Family Papers, 1774-1940 (bulk 1860- 1918) Silas Herbert Holden Papers, 1873-1905 Holland Family Papers, 1815-1926 (bulk 1827- 1910) Alfred W. Hosmer Botanical Manuscripts, 1878- 1903 Alfred W. Hosmer Collection of Glass Plate Negative Images Primarily of Concord Mass., [not before 1880]-1903 Correspondence to Alfred Winslow Hosmer Relating to Henry David Thoreau, 1849-1949 (bulk 1890-1903) Henry J. Hosmer Correspondence Relating to Hosmer Family Genealogy, 1875-1893 Lydia Hosmer Letters, 1830-1832. Hosmer Family Deeds and Other Property Documents, 1791-1931 New York Society Library Hosmer-Lunt Collection, 1822-1914 Hudson Family Papers, 1663-1942 (bulk 1851- 1938) http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 7 of 11 Peter Hutchinson & Company Records, 1917- 1929 Printed Hymnal and Songbook Collection, 1795- [1875] [Back to top] J Edward Jarvis Papers, 1796-1886 (bulk 1822- 1844) Deacon Francis Jarvis Papers, 1797-1828 Nathan Jarvis Papers, 1826-1851 [Back to top] K Records of the Kalmia Woods Corporation, 1951-1996 Kalmia Woods Water District Records, 1953- 1983 Alicia M. Keyes Papers, 1877-1941 (bulk 1882- 1924) John Shepard Keyes Papers, 1837-1908 Keyes Family Deeds and Other Property Documents, 1813-1910 Keyes-Brown Family Papers, 1834-1932 King and Allied Family Papers, [ca. 1780]-1879 (bulk 1827-1853) [Back to top] L Ladies' Tuesday Club Records, 1888- Concord Free Public Library Letter File, 1755 - http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 8 of 11 1995 Loring-Barrett-Sherman-Smith Family Papers, [179-?]-[1992?] [Back to top] M Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord Collection, 1813-1984 May Family Collection, 1760-1899 Frank Thayer Merrill Drawings to Illustrate Roberts Brothers 1880 Edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, [1880] Middlesex Agricultural Society Records, 1803- 1893 Alfred Munroe Glass Plate Negative Collection of Images of Concord, Mass., [ca. 1880-ca. 1902] [Back to top] N Nineteenth of April Committee for the Celebration in Concord, Mass., of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Concord Records, 1924-1926 [Back to top] o Records of the Old Concord Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1894- 1998 Concord Oral History Program Collection, 1975- [ongoing] [Back to top] P http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Special Collections Finding Aids Page 5 of 11 Archibald H. and Dora B. Ferran Papers, 1946- 1990 First Parish in Concord Records, 1695-1994 Allen French Lantern Slides of Images Primarily of Monument Square and the Mill Dam, Concord, Mass., [ca. 1920-1930] Allen French Papers, 1898-[1957] Allen French-Ruth Wheeler Collection of Papers and Documents Relating Primarily to Concord, Mass., 1668-1852 Daniel Chester French Correspondence, 1873- 1931 [Back to top] G Gerrish Family Papers, 1818-1887 Herbert Wendell Gleason Papers, [1905]-1937 Robbins Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives of Images of Concord, Mass., 1899-1937 Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Herbert Wendell Gleason Slide Lecture "Thoreau's Country" (a Lecture on Henry David Thoreau's Concord and Surrounding Areas), [ca. 1915-1917, with later additions] Grass Roots for Heywood Meadow Committee Records, 1967-1986 (bulk 1969) [Back to top] H Letters to William Torrey Harris, [1864]-1909 http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Special Collections Finding Aids Page 9 of 11 Topical Pamphlet Collection, 1741-1996 Peabody Books, 1524-1878 (bulk 1820-1850) Miscellaneous Property Documents (Primarily Deeds) Relating Mainly to Concord (Mass.), 1673-1925 [Back to top] R Grindall Reynolds Papers, 1870-1888 Richardson Family Collection, [ca. 1855]-1985. Ezra Ripley Papers, 1784-1838 D. Michael Ryan West Point and Berlin Papers, 1961-1969 [Back to top] S Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, 1845-1936 (bulk 1845-1905) Collection of Mounted Engravings Primarily from the Estate of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1851- 1862 Nathan Hobbs Seaver Papers, 1855-1896 Mary Sherwood Papers, 1932-1955 Harold C. Smith Papers, 1925-1985 (bulk 1958) Sarah Brown Smith Diaries, 1849-1872 Social Circle in Concord Records, 1794-2005 Stow Family Papers, 1740-1862 Winnifred Sturdy Collection of Papers and Records Connected Primarily with Concord, Mass., 1663-1951 http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library:Special Collections Finding Aids Page 10 of 11 Swamp Brook Preservation Association Records, 1970-1977 [Back to top] T Edwin Way Teale Papers Relating to Thoreau and to Concord, Mass., 1918-1980 (bulk 1940- 1980) Mabel Thomas Papers, 1890-1946 (bulk 1890- 1916) Thoreau Books: Books from the Libraries of Henry David Thoreau and of Other Members of the Thoreau Family, 1776-1869 Henry David Thoreau Papers, 1836-[1862] Thoreau Family Collection, 1828-1858 Thoreau Family Correspondence, 1836-1878 Trumbull-Locke Country Store of Concord Collection, [1938?]-1987 [Back to top] U United States Weather Bureau Records for the Concord Station (Concord, Mass.) as Observed by Fred A. Tower, 1890-1949 [Back to top] W Charles H. Walcott Papers, [ca. 1875]-1901 Collection of Carleton Watkins Stereographs of Yosemite Valley, [ca. 1861] Ruth R. Wheeler-N.C. Wyeth Correspondence, 1944-1970 (bulk 1944-1947) http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 The Concord Free Public Library: Special Collections Finding Aids Page 11 of 11 Ruth R. Wheeler Papers, 1843-1972 (bulk 1921- 1972) William Willder Wheildon Papers, 1838-1889 [Back to top] C 2004, The Concord Free Public Library | How to Give http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/index.html 10/19/2006 Epp, Ronald From: Leslie Wilson [LWilson@minlib.net] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 5:55 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: Herbert Gleason Collection Dear Ron Epp: No appointment is necessary to see the CFPL's Gleason holdings. Simply come by during Special Collections hours (Mon.-Thurs. 9-5, Fri. & Sat. 9-1), and someone will be able to help you to the reels of microfilm containing the images you want to see. Have you checked the finding aid for the Robbins-Mills Collection on our web site? Just watch out for weather events. None of the Special Collections staff lives in Concord, so every once in a while bad weather prevents us from making it into the library. I'm glad that research interest in HWG is on the rise. I'm sure you've seen Finis Dunaway's recent book on photography and the national parks, in which Gleason forms the first chapter. All best, Leslie Wilson Leslie Perrin Wilson Curator Special Collections Concord Free Public Library (978) 318-3342 Original Message From: "Epp, Ronald" To: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:10:50 -0500 Subject: Herbert Gleason Collection > Dear Ms. Wilson, > > > > Would it be possible to have access to appropriate Herbert Gleason > holdings, possibly this Thursday or January 11th? > > > > I have completed five years of archival research on Bostonian Brahmin > George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), founder of Acadia National Park and a > personal friend of Mr. Gleason who summered on Maine's Mount Desert > Island and composed hundreds of images that were subsequently > published. > Most of the images he composed at the request of Mr. Dorr to document > the landscape of the island are little known to the public or even > photoarchivists. > > > > Many of these Gleason images appeared in a small series (of 23 titles) > called "The Sieur de Monts Publications" which I have assembled (with > four numbers missing) and according to OCLC are only available > piecemeal in a very small number of institutions. I would like to 1 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 1 of 3 Verizon Yahoo! Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon Mail Home Tutorials YAHOO! Help verizon [Sign Out, Member Center MAIL Mail Addresses Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Folders [Add Edit] Previous Next I Back to Messages Inbox (2) Delete Reply Forward Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Bulk [Empty] Trash "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Add to [Empty] From: Address Book Add Mobile Alert My Folders [Hide] Subject: Re: Acadia N.P. Eliz messages To: "Leslie Wilson" Member Information Ron messages Dear Leslie, Tuesday will be fine. I'll see you a little after nine and when you see the list Search Shortcuts below of resources that I need to consult you will likely infer that the entire day My Photos will not be enough. My Attachments Bosco, Ronald. The Emerson Brothers.: 2006. ox erd V.P., 2006. Bosco, Ronald. Ralph Waldo Emerson: a bicentennial exhibition. 2003. Bosco, Ronald. Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Vol. 2. 2001, Cameron, Kenneth. Emerson's Philosophic Path to a Vocation. 1996. ILL Cameron, K. Kenneth Walter Cameron Collection. Box 1, folder 8; Box 2. Folder 4. Cooke, George Willis. Emerson Centennial. 1903. Curtis, James B. James Burrill Curtis and Brook Farm. 1978. Emerson, R.W. Journals and Notebooks, 1819-75. Box 2, folder 2; Box 3, folder 21. Houston Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Heart of Emerson's Journalsa. Ed. B. Perry. 1926 meltin. 1 v.3 Theory Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend. 1899. Emerson Centennial, May 25, 1903; extracts 1903. Emerson, Edward Waldo. Essays, Addresses and poems. 1930. French, Allen. Edward Waldo Emnerson. 1933. Oleason, Herbert Wendell. Papers. Series II. Folder 4. Myerson, Joel. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a descriptive inbibliography. 1982. Myerson, Joel. Ralph Waldo Emerson: a bicentennial exhibition. 2003. Putz, manfred. Ralph Waldo Emerson: a bibliography. 1986[1400-1905] Social Circle in Concord Records, 1794-1975. Only material relating to the 1903 Emerson Centennial. Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. 1863. Also: Barrett Collection of Printed Ephhemera Relating to Sessions of the Concord School of Philosophy. Cameron, Kenneth Walter. Concord Harvest. 1970. Concorrd Lectures on Philosophy. 1883. Harris, William Torrey. William Torrey Harris Concord School of Philosophy * Ed. charle Eliot Norton. Hu, 1899 The Centenary it th Birth t Rayher Evern June 1903 . Social cuide. 137 pp. http://us.f841.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=5170_2499899_104273_706_233. 10/13/2006 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 103 000 000 TM 0001 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR alcott amos Concord Search Record 5 of 45 Record: Prev Next Author Dahlstrand, Theodore. Title Bibliographical notes on material by and about Amos Bronson Alcott : holograph, [1975] Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.35 Item 52 CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Description 1 item ([11] leaves) ; 28 cm. Note Photocopy. Location of original unrecorded. Notes accompanied by photocopy of printed Alcott material ([9] leaves) Subject Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 -- Bibliography. Added author Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Record 5 of 45 Record: Prev Next 300 poorio XII 000 100 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/aalcott+amos/aalcott+amos/1%2C1%2C45%2CB/fr 11/25/2006 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 X pod 0007 000 230 New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR alcott amos Concord Search Record 21 of 45 Record: Prev Next Author Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Title The journals of Bronson Alcott / selected and edited by Odell Shepard. -- Publication info. Boston : Little, Brown, 1938. Location Call No. Status CONCORD/Adult 818.3 Alcott,A. AVAILABLE CONCORD/FOWLER/Adult 818.3 Alcott,A. MENDING CONCORD AUTHORS A. B. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Alcott, author Description XXX, 559 p. : ill., facsims., ports. Subject Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Concord (Mass.) -- Authors. Added author Shepard, Odell, 1884-1967. Record 21 of 45 Record: Prev Next 100 000 IMS 000 000: New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) 7 Individuals. Communities. Information. The World. We bring it all together. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aalcott+amos/aalcott+amos/1%2C1%2C45%2CB/fr.. 11/25/2006 Minuteman Library Network/Concoro Page 1 of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWOR K Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help poors 000 IK 000 230 New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR alcott amos Concord Search Record 22 of 45 Record: Prev Next Author Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Title The letters of A. Bronson Alcott. Edited by Richard L. Herrnstadt. Publication info. Ames, lowa State University Press [1969] Edition [1st ed.] Location Call No. Status CONCORD/Adult 818.3 Alcott, A. AVAILABLE CONCORD/Adult 818.3 Alcott AVAILABLE CONCORD AUTHORS A. B. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Alcott, author Description xxxvii, 846 p. illus., facsims., geneal. table., ports. 26 cm. Note The letters, are chiefly from the Alcott-Pratt collection of the Harvard College Library. Subject Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 -- Correspondence. Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence. Philosophers -- United States -- Correspondence. Concord (Mass.) -- Authors. Added author Herrnstadt, Richard L., 1926- Added title Correspondence ISBN 0813800870 Record 22 of 45 Record: Prev Next 300 000 IN 000 mg New Search Request Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aalcott+amos/aalcott+amos/1%2C1%2C45%2CB/fr... 11/25/2006 Minuteman Library Network/Concord Page 1 of 3 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help XX 000 TO 000 TO 000 D New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR alcott amos Concord Search we man Record 1 of 45 Record: Prev Next Author Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Title A. Bronson Alcott papers, 1843-1882. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL VAULT A35, CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY A.B.Alcott, Unit 1 Description .425 linear ft. Organized in a single sequence. Note American educator, philosopher, mystic, lecturer, essayist, poet, Transcendentalist, idealist, and reformer. Resident of Concord, Mass; neighbor of Emerson, friend of Thoreau. Born at Spindle Hill near Walcott, Conn., 1799; died in Boston, 1888. With little formal education, he made his living as a young man as a peddlar in N.Y. and Penn. Founded and taught at Temple School in Boston, 1834-1838. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody serving as his assistant. In 1840, the disapproval of parents alarmed by his educational methods having forced the closing of the school, he moved his (cont.) family to Concord. Travelled in 1842 to England, where he found support for his educational theories. A founder in 1843 of Fruitlands community in Harvard, Mass., where he and his family lived until Jan. 1844. Superintendent of Schools in Concord 1859-1865. In 1879, founded Concord School of Philosophy, which continued until 1888, largely under direction of William Torrey Harris (particularly after Alcott's stroke in 1882). Through Harris, who later became U.S. Commissioner of Education, Alcott's educational theories had broad influence. (cont.) Both in teaching children and in presenting his ideas to groups of adults, Alcott's technique was the Socratic conversational method. Father of author Louisa May Alcott, whose writing gave the family the financial security that Alcott did not provide. Summary Transcriptions of Alcott's Socratic conversations, literary manuscripts, http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aalcott+amos/aalcott+amos/1%2C1%2C45%2CB/fr. 11/25/2006 - Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 2 of 3 and one letter. Papers include: Notes of Conversations [etc.], 1843-1875 (incl. transcriptions in Alcott's hand, printed transcriptions, and transcriptions by Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney); Concord Book (holograph, [1861]); Emerson (holograph prose piece; printed 1865, BAL 109); Tablets (holograph of portions of book printed 1868, BAL 112); ALS to Prescott Keyes, 1879 June 1; Love's Morrow, a poem in memory of May Alcott Nieriker (printed separately 1880, BAL 119, and in Sonnets and Canzonets, 1882, BAL 124); (cont.) H.D.T. (sonnet included in Sonnets and Canzonets); Emerson/R.W.E. (draft and copy of poem, copy dated Jan. 1881; printed in Sonnets and Canzonets); New Connecticut: Farmer's Boy (holograph; printed 1881, BAL 121); verse for William J. Bok, written 1878, copied 1882; sonnet (two versions, one entitled Childhood, the other Fountains; printed in Sonnets and Canzonets); Emerson (holograph sonnet read at funeral of R.W. Emerson, 1882); misc. poems and stanzas (10 holograph items, incl. The Cheshire School and The Schoolmaster's Apprenticeship) Note Most of the papers: available on microfilm; for use in Library. Indexes Finding aid in Library. Cite as: A. Bronson Alcott Papers, Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Note Papers are less inclusive than as described in NUCMC. A.B. Alcott letters and journals: Houghton Library, Harvard University; transferred from Concord Free Public Library (microfilm made 1956- 1957 for use at CFPL) Subject Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 -- Correspondence. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 Manuscripts. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. American literature. American poetry. Authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Dialogues. Manuscripts. Sonnets, American -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Transcendentalism (New England) Transcendentalists (New England) Genre Correspondence. Holographs. Personal papers. Subject Concord (Mass.) -- Authors. Concord (Mass.) -- Authors. Added author Bok, William J. Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904. Keyes, Prescott. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aalcott+amos/aalcott+amos/1%2C1%2C45%2CB/fr... 11/25/2006 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 for X 000 XIII 300 000 mm 100 000 IIO New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR sanborn Concord Search Record 12 of 103 Record: Prev Next Corporate author Concord School of Philosophy. Title Concord lectures on philosophy : comprising outlines of all the lectures at the Concord Summer School of Philosophy in 1882 : with an historical sketch / collected and arranged by Raymond L. Bridgman ; revised by the several lecturers ; approved by the faculty. Publication info. Cambridge, Mass. : Moses King, Publisher, c1883. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.35 Item CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY 133 CONCORD AUTHORS Alcott, CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY A.B.,contributor Description 168 p. ; 26 cm. Note "A. Bronson Alcott, Dean; S.H. Emery, Jr., Director; F.B. Sanborn, Secretary. --P. [3] Lectures introduced in order to show the connection of philosophy with literature, art and nature. Abstracts of lectures by Amos Bronson Alcott, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris, Julia Ward Howe, Ednah D. Cheeney, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Parsons Lathrop, and others. Includes A. Bronson Alcott's "lon: A Monday" (p. 57-60) and F.B. Sanborn's "The Poet's Countersign" (p. 14-17), both reprinted from Alcott's Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882) Contains on Sixth Day In printed paper wrapper. 'The Emerson Commission Indexed in: BAL, 129 Local note Concord's C.PAM. copy has damaged wrapper. 21 pp. see attached. Subject Concord School of Philosophy. Concord School of Philosophy -- Study and teaching. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/asanborn/asanborn/1%2C18%2C133%2CB/frameset 11/6/2006 America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott Page 1 of 4 This page sponsored by: The Concord Magazine The Ezine for and about Concord, Massachusetts ConcordMA.com Subscribe Table of contents search Search Back issues Contact us Click here foy like books. Previous page Next page March/April 2001 amazon.com America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott By David O'Donaghue. a clinical psychologist completing a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. He is specializing in German Idealism and American Transcendentalism. He is starting a school of interdisciplinary studies in Brevard, North Carolina where he now lives. E-mail him at druben2@hotmail.com. The man whom Emerson called "one of the most thoughtful men of America; more nearly resembling Confucius or Socrates in his devotion to wisdom than any of his contemporaries," and whom Thoreau claimed to be the sanest man he ever knew and a true geometer of visions, is known today --- if at all - merely as the father of the author of "Little Women." Amos Bronson Alcott was a major force in educational reform in this country in the early nineteenth century as well as being a transcendental philosopher in his own right. He was also a sort of Concordian hero, bringing enriching activities to the local residents during his long and productive life. Hints at the reason for his obscurity today can be gleaned from some comments made by Emerson as to his friend's weaknesses: this "Bonaparte of speculation" was at times a "tedious archangel" who "never seemed to be able to finish a sentence but revolved in spirals until he was lost in the air," and whose "gift for expression was solely limited to his speech. for from the perusal of his writing one derived less pleasure than pain. Thoreau likewise had a mixed evaluation of Bronson: "He is broad and genial. but indefinite; some would say feeble; forever feeling about vainly in his speech and http://www.concordma.com/magazine/marapr01/amosbronsonalcott.html 12/9/2006 America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott Page 2 of 4 touching nothing." I came up to Concord from North Carolina recently to research this complex man and found him to be one of the most fascinating thinkers I have yet come across. I hope to convey some of the many facets of this American mystic in this article. Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut in the last year of the seventeenth century. His mother insured that he received the best education opportunities available in that small village. As soon as he was old enough, however, Bronson left his provincial setting and became a "Yankee peddler" in the south. This adventure concluded with him penniless and in debt to his father. He returned home and spent a good deal of time with his cousin, William, who was a teacher. Through William's influence, Bronson decided to go into education himself, but not just as a teacher: as an educational innovator. His goal was "to establish the reign of truth and reason and arrange society -- our system of education -- in accordance with the laws of our nature as we find it in its incipient state." Not too ambitious, that! A few words could be said at this point concerning the background of this grand aim. American intellectuals at the time were critiquing the ideas of John Locke (1632-1704), an English philosopher and physician, who maintained that philosophy should be approached according to the natural capacities of human beings. Philosophy should arise out of the physiological source of thinking and ideas, which, for Locke, was solely the senses. He initiated a movement in Britain known as Empiricism. Empiricism arose as a reaction to the view of the Continental Rationalism of Descartes (1596-1650), Spinoza (1632-1677) and Leibniz (1646-1716) that maintained that the ideas arise not from sense data but from innate ideas such as truth, justice, harmony, God, love. These innate ideas are necessary to organize the chaotic flow of perceptions into concepts. The rationalists denied the possibility that perceptions alone can organize themselves into concepts without the aid of these innate ideas, Bronson very much affirmed Locke's commitment to viewing the attainment of knowledge through the capacities of the human learning process, but he disagreed that the sole source of this learning was through the senses. Bronson's educational theory is perhaps best characterized as a form of practical Platonism. Plato (428-354 BCE). in his dialogue called the Meno, demonstrates to his students that a slave boy, with no prior training in mathematics. has the innate understanding of the geometrical ideas necessary to perform complex operations. He tries thereby to prove that innate ideas exist in the mind prior to any education. He, further, explains that the educational process itself is a sort of birthing in which the teacher is a midwife of ideas that are already http://www.concordma.com/magazine/marapr01/amosbronsonalcott.html 12/9/2006 America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott Page 3 of 4 latent within each person. Bronson heartily affirmed this view. He set up his teaching strategies and schools on this principle. Over the next few decades, Bronson began a number of schools in which he and the other teachers who shared his vision would actually try to prevent the world of the senses from interfering too much with the natural wisdom children carried within themselves. This innate wisdom, Bronson thought, came from the spiritual world that they inhabited prior to birth. He believed that coming into this world of sensual reality was a fall from a pre-existence of pure spiritual thought. If children can be subtly reminded of what they faintly recognize as Truth (with a capital 'T') at an early age then they can have a bulwark against all erroneous thinking later in life. They will have a secure core of understanding about themselves, the good and God from which they can build a firm foundation of knowledge. Without this core, Bronson believed that knowledge could be swayed and corrupted by idle opinion, skepticism, or the seduction of desire and the sensual life. In his Conversations with Children on the Gospels, Bronson demonstrates his method of eliciting from children their own knowledge about the truths of the Gospels, without forcing them to recite or memorize stories or dogma. This was very radical for the time, since most parents would not trust that their children could know religious truths innately. The usual religious training at the time involved rigorous memorization and recital, not reasoning and conversation. Though his theories of education were based in strong religious principles, they were met by severe criticism from the social environment of New England at the time. This reaction can be largely attributed to the still prevailing Calvinist attitudes of these descendants of the Puritans. Calvinism maintains that humankind, in its natural state, is corrupt and misguided due to the legacy of Adam. Individuals, therefore, could not trust their inner wisdom for moral improvement, but must rely on special grace from God. The kind of humanistic optimism of the Transcendentalists was in stark contrast to the Puritan legacy. In the 1830's the transcendentalism of Emerson, Thoreau, Parker and Fuller was just beginning to assert an influence on the intellectual life of New England. In this view, humankind was endowed with practically the capacity for self-perfection due to a Divine spark within. This spiritual identity allowed individuals a deeper connection to each other, nature and God. Bronson felt a great deal of affinity with the other Transcendentalists. He was not the student of Emerson or Thoreau, but was more their colleague and friend. Bronson was four years older than Emerson and, though the latter was ultimately better known as the exemplar of American http://www.concordma.com/magazine/marapr01/amosbronsonalcott.htm 12/9/2006 America's Socrates in Concord: Amos Bronson Alcott Page 4 of 4 Transcendentalism, Bronson's ideas fertilized the intellectual ground and bore the fruits of much of the literary legacy we call the transcendental tradition. As shown in Emerson and Thoreau's opinion of Bronson, cited at the beginning of this article, he could be tedious and disorganized in his presentation and wrote in a way that was not hospitable to the average reader. Compare the fine lucidity and poetic beauty of Thoreau's A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers or Emerson's Divinity School Address to Bronson's enigmatic Tablets or his Orphic Sayings and one can easily see how this opinion could be justified. Transcendentalism, as a movement. arose both as a reaction against the dour view of human capacities inherited from the Puritans and the over-intellectualization of spirit in the Unitarianism of Harvard University at the time. The 1960's proclaimed a very similar reaction to an over-technocratic, militaristic and capitalistic America with its call "back to nature and simple living." This was likewise the call in much of transcendental literature. Concord was decidedly not Boston and the people who gathered in Concord valued its strong ties to the farms and countryside within easy reach of all its townspeople and also its simpler lifestyle that afforded time for relationships with neighbors and friends. This, in turn, provided possibilities for the cross-pollination of creative ideas in philosophy, education, literature and religion. Bronson was an active participant in the exchange of ideas and loved, more than anything else, conversation. In my next article of this series I will describe the nature of Bronson's public Conversations, which, with his attention and deliberate efforts, deserve the capitalization. Photo: Courtesy of ArtToday Artwork: The Rhymster ConcordMA.com Subscribe Table of contents Search Back issues Contact us Previous page Next page ConcordMA com This website is a gift to the Concord community from ConcordMA.com. a full-service Internet design and marketing company. 978 369-0113. PO Box 285, Concord, MA 01742 Concord. Massachusetts USA webmaster@.concordma.com http://www.concordma.com/magazine/marapr01/amosbronsonalcott.html 12/9/2006 MAY 4 1922 (11) The Christian Register 423 Memories and Friendships tical, imparting to them the largeness of vision and the command of their faculties which will best fit CHARLES WILLIAM WENDTE, D.D. them for the just performance of the duties of daily life." Whereupon the dear old gentleman put my Dr. Wendte has kindly added the following incidents to obulus into one of his pockets, my membership card his original contribution to THE-REGISTER. The high mo- into another, and turned away, leaving me without ment' of farewell to Emerson is beautifully told. Next either money or certificate, to reflect on the practical week we shall publish a portion of a chapter on "Religious" and Social Influences, values of philosophic pursuits! was glad to renew my acquaintance at Concord I READ Mr. Emerson's successive books, sought every with Dr. Hiram Jones, the Illinois Platonist, whose opportunity to hear him lecture, and met and con- uaintance I had made at Jacksonville twelve years versed with him on interesting occasions. A. Bron- previously, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and others of that son Alcott and his gifted daughters I ventured num. celestial company. ber among my friends Miss Louisa Alcott contributed But the one memory which remains most vividly original poems to my song books, "The Sunny Side" with me was the closing Tecture of the School, given and "The Carol." Her father on his Western lecture that year by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Town Hall trips rarely failed to visit me during my pastorates in in Concord. It was his last public utterance, and made Chicago and Cincinnati, and usually addressed my con- at the insistence of the attendants at the Summer gregations on his favorite transcendental themes. School. An eclipse of memory and other symptoms It was an impressive sight to behold this apostle of of premature old age had come upon the great thinker. the spiritual life, up to his eighty-fourth year erect His son, Dr. Edward W. Emerson, whose devotion to and vigorous in body and alert in mind, handsome his father was even then noteworthy, sat by his side countenance and persuasive in speech, traveling up at the reading-desk, turning over the leaves of his and down the Western States, seemingly indifferent manuscript for him and in other ways aiding the de- to cold or heat, to fatigues or financial returns, preach livery of the lecture. His auditors listened spellbound, ing everywhere his gospel of the supremacy of the with a deep sense of the pathos of the occasion, to the soul. Whatever one might think of some of his the cadences of the gentle voice they had come to love SO ories, his general influence on the community was benefi- well. Mr. Emerson's theme was "Aristocracy," but it cent, counteracting the crass materialism of the time mattered not. It was his presence, not his word, which by presenting to it the paramount claims of the ideal. on that day occupied every mind, for we knew that His very inconsistencies were of a lovable nature. we listened to him for the last time on earth. When You might now and then laugh at them, but you the lecture was ended the audience quietly withdrew. loved him nevertheless. A few friends had gone forward to greet the speaker. 1880 As they too departed, I looked back. He stood alone, I recall that in the summer of 1880 I attended for serene and peaceful, in front of the rostrum. I could a week. the sessions of the Summer School of Philoso not resist the impulse, and went back, and tendering phy in Concord, Mass: The special subject of the my hand to the great thinker who more than any meetings was Thoreau, but the discussions took a other had influenced my spiritual life, I said, "Good-by, wide range and many of the leading transcendental Mr. Emerson." He took my hand with a kindly smile thinkers of the country participated The central and said, "Good-by." Although he did not recognize figure was, of course, A. Bronson Alcott, who rounded me, yet it was as if he had conferred a benediction. out his -long life of philosophic speculation in this I bowed my head and silently wen't my way. brilliant school, which had built its modest academy between the orchard and pine grove of the venerable and beloved idealist. His preoccupation with super- mundane things was humorously illustrated in my ex- perience with him on applying for admission to the School. Mr. Alcott gave me a warm welcome and seemed gratified that I should desire to become a dis ciple. He sat down at 'his desk and filled out the necessary membership card, carefully sanded its inky content, and, rising, stood before me in all the serenity and charm of his tall and handsome presence. "My young friend," he began, "I recall that when last we met, you confided to me your fears that philosophic studies, while in themselves delightful, tended to unfit their votaries for the duties of practical life. I sought to convince you that this was a misconception on your part, and am glad to note by your presence among us that your apprehensions on this score have been al- layed. I myself have just given you an illustration to the contrary. In the absence of our secretary I have prepared the necessary document which entitles you to the privileges of our School. The fee will be five dollars." I handed him the required amount, which Mr Alcott graciously received. With my money in one hand and my admission card in the other, he beamed upon me from behind his gold-bowed spectacles, and resumed his discourse: Philosophy, truly conceived and pur- sued, should make its votaries not less but more 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 000 000 30 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), Concord Search AND AND Record 12 of 103 Record: Prev Next Corporate author Concord School of Philosophy. Title Concord lectures on philosophy : comprising outlines of all the lectures at the Concord Summer School of Philosophy in 1882 : with an historical sketch / collected and arranged by Raymond L. Bridgman ; revised by the several lecturers ; approved by the faculty. Publication info. Cambridge, Mass. : Moses King, Publisher, c1883. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL C.PAM.35 Item CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY 133 CONCORD AUTHORS Alcott, CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY A.B., contributor Description 168 p. ; 26 cm. Note "A. Bronson Alcott, Dean; S.H. Emery, Jr., Director; F.B. Sanborn, Secretary." --P. [3] Lectures introduced in order to show the connection of philosophy with literature, art and nature. Abstracts of lectures by Amos Bronson Alcott, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris, Julia Ward Howe, Ednah D. Cheeney, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Parsons Lathrop, and others. Includes A. Bronson Alcott's "Ion: A Monday" (p. 57-60) and F.B. Sanborn's "The Poet's Countersign" (p. 14-17), both reprinted from Alcott's Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882) In printed paper wrapper. Indexed in: BAL, 129 Local note Concord's C.PAM. copy has damaged wrapper. Subject Concord School of Philosophy. Concord School of Philosophy -- Study and teaching. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aSanborn%2C+F.+B.+%28Franklin+Benjamin%29 12/31/2006 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 X poor 000 III 000 mm New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Limit/Sort Search Another Search (Search History) AUTHOR Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), Concord Search Record 41 of 103 Record: Prev Next Author Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. Title Lectures on literature and philosophy : reports of transcendental, biographical, and historical papers read before the Concord School, 1881-1888 / by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn ; edited by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Publication info. Hartford : Transcendental Books, [1975] Location Call No. Status CONCORD AUTHORS R. W. CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY Emerson, subject O Description 111 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. Note Issued with United States literary gazette. Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States literary gazette. Hartford [1967] Bibliography Bibliography: leaf 111. Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --- Criticism and interpretation. 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We bring it all together. http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/aSanborn%2C+F.+B.+%28Franklin+Benjamin%29.. 12/31/2006 Minuteman Library Network /Concord Page 1 of 2 minuteman Concord Free Public Library LIBRARY NETWORK K Top Requests List Community Info Databases Kids Catalog Virtual Catalog My Account Help 2/16/02 X 000 000 TR 000 TX New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Modify Search Another Search (Search History) KEYWORD emerson centennial Concord Search has 29 results found. sorted by date. Record: Prev Next Title Barrett collection of printed ephemera relating to sessions of the Concord School of Philosophy, Concord, Mass., 1879-1888. Location Call No. Status SPEC COLL VAULT A35, CONCORD/Special LIB USE ONLY A.B.Alcott, Unit 2 Description .21 linear ft. Four series: I. Programs; II. Tickets; III. Misc.; IV. Other philosophical lecture series. Note Founded in Concord, Mass., by educator, philosopher, mystic, lecturer, poet, Transcendentalist, and reformer A. Bronson Alcott, the Concord School of Philosophy opened in 1879. Managed with the assistance of William Torrey Harris and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, it consisted of a yearly summer session of lectures primarily on literature, education, philosophy, and spiritualism. Lecturers included Alcott, Harris, Sanborn, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ednah D. Cheney, H.K. Jones, Julia Ward Howe, T.W. Higginson, and others. The first session of the school was held in the Orchard House (the Alcott home). The "Hillside Chapel" lecture hall for the school was built through a gift from Elizabeth Thompson. The final session of the school was held in 1888, the year of Alcott's death. f.1+2 Summary Printed items, 1879-1888, including: programs (1879-1888); tickets mas (1883-1887; all made out to Mrs. Robbins Barrett); misc. items (1880- 1887, including: notice regarding price and ordering of tickets, 1880; prospectus and order form for Bridgman's Concord Lectures , 1882; F.B. Sanborn piece about school, 1884; hints to participants for preparing for 1887 session on Aristotle; undated handbill advertising "St. Louis Philosophical Publications"; undated "Extract from a Letter Concerning the New Life"); and material relating to other philosophical lecture series (program for "The Centennial of Kant's Kritik" in Saratoga, http://library.minlib.net:1082/search/Xemerson+centennial&searchscope=10&SORT=D/ 10/13/2006 Minuteman Library Network / Concord Page 2 of 2 1881; program for "Farmington Lectures on Philosophy and Art,' [1888]). Cite as: Barrett Collection of Printed Ephemera Relating to Sessions of the Concord School of Philosophy, Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Subject Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Concord School of Philosophy. Lectures and lecturing -- Massachusetts -- Concord. Printed ephemera. Programs. Transcendentalism (New England) Transcendentalists (New England) Concord (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Genre Handbills. Tickets. Added author Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. Barrett, Robbins, Mrs. Concord School of Philosophy. Added title Concord School of Philosophy collection Record: Prev Next - poorno 000 300 New Search Save Records MARC Display Return to List Modify Search Another Search (Search History) i Individuals. Communities. Information. The World. 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Title: Transcendentalists in transition : popularization of Emerson, Thoreau, and the Concord School of Philosophy in the Greenacre Summer Conferences and the Monsalvat School (1894-1909) : the roles of Charles Malloy and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn before the triumph of the Baha'i Movement in Eliot, Maine / [compiled] by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Published: Hartford : Transcendental Books, c1980. Description: 263 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. Local notes: SML : Photocopy. [New Haven? : 1981?] Location: LSF- click "Place Requests" for delivery to any Yale library Call Number: B905 T7 1980A (LC)+ Oversize Status: Not Checked Out Subjects (Library of Congress): Concord School of Philosophy. Transcendentalism (New England) Greenacre lecture course. 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Printing - Specimens. http://0-firstsearch.oclc.org.library.colgate.edu/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=holdings:entity.. 4/2/2007 IHAS: Artist/Movement/ldeas Page 1 of 6 Thomas Hampson I Hear America Singing THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE & TRANSCENDENTALISM "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." With this fiery challenge Ralph Waldo Emerson concluded his 1837 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. As his words were received with great enthusiasm, Emerson argued not only for a new American culture, freed from European bondage, but also for a rebirth of an intellectual and artistic life that was inextricably bound up with the life of the spirit. Before long, Emerson and his circle of writers, reformers, and artists would christen those ideals which governed the spirit "Transcendentalism." The Transcendentalists stood at the heart of The American Renaissance- the flowering of our nation's thought in literature, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music in the period The Old Manse in Concord, MA. roughly designated from 1835-1880. Concentrated in Boston and Concord, MA, the home of many of the literary members such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, the Alcotts, Theodore Parker, Jones Very, George Ripley, the Peabody Sisters, and the Channings, Transcendentalism was far broader than a http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html 8/6/2006 IHAS: Artist/Movement/ideas Page 2 of 0 geographical phenomenon or a select club membership- though Ripley and Emerson had founded the Transcendental Club in 1836. Rather it was a faith shared by such diverse minds and such diverse places as those of Walt Whitman in Brooklyn or Emily Dickinson in Amherst or the Hudson River School of painters in New York; it was a visionary bent, a way of, as the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth had once described his mission, "of seeing into the life of things" that permeated the best of American thought and art throughout much of the 19th century. Even those artists of the American Renaissance who would find difficulty with the optimism of the Transcendentalists-- Hawthorne and Melville among them--would be forced to focus on and respond to the existential issues the movement raised. American The term Transcendentalism was derived from the Transcendentalism philosopher Kant, who called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." The roots of the American philosophy ran deep into German and English Romanticism. From German philosophers such as Fichte and Herder, it received its mystic impulse; from Goethe, Novalis, Jean-Paul, Heine, and the other great German Romantic poets it acquired its imagistic language and themes. Acquaintance with German thought, by and large, filtered through English translations-Coleridge and Carlyle's among the best-and acquaintance with these and the work of other English Romantics such as Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Byron enriched the Americans' perspectives as well. In his 1841 address delivered at Boston's Masonic Temple , which was later reprinted in THE DIAL, Emerson attempted to define the philosophy in simple terms as "What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842." In reality it was far more complex collection of beliefs: that the spark of divinity lies within man; that everything in the world is a Walt Whitman in 1891. microcosm of existence; that the individual soul is identical to the world soul, or Over- Soul, as Emerson called it. This belief in the Inner Light led to an emphasis on the authority of the Self--to Walt Whitman's I, to the Emersonian doctrine of Self-Reliance, to Thoreau's civil disobedience, and to the Utopian communities http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.htm 8/6/2006 the inn at Montchanin Village, Wilmington, Delaware Page 2 of 3 We provide nightly turndown service, complimentary daily New York Times delivery, elegant bathrooms with heated towel racks, robes and in-room safes. Room service is available. On site parking is free. All rooms offer a refrigerator filled with complimentary sodas and water, microwave, coffee maker, and china, glass and flatware. Superior suites are exquisite. 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For the past eight months, she has been organizing and processing Carlisle's local history collection. Tuberculosis is something we don't often think about anymore. But 19th century Concordians were frighteningly aware of the symptoms: the flushed cheeks, the bright eyes, fever, loss of appetite, and most of all, the cough. It was feared, but regarded with a peculiar resignation because it was SO unavoidable. It was dreaded, but at the same time romanticized. It was a disease that reflected the culture of its time: the victim slowly, gracefully fading away, transcending their corporeal body, their Thoreau died at 44 of tuberculosis immortal soul shining through. A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord Page 2 of 5 In reality, tuberculosis, commonly called consumption in the 19th century, killed more people in New England, particularly in the Boston area, than any other disease. It affected the poor more often than the wealthy, females more than males, and people of all ages. Anyone could be a victim, but it was especially prevalent among young adults, cruelly striking down those in the prime of their lives. Unfortunately for 19th century New Englanders, the disease was not well understood. Its cause would not be discovered until 1882. In the meantime, beliefs about the disease reflected the cultural and scientific thinking of the time. It was thought that it might be a vaguely environmental, "something in the air"; but more likely caused by the victim's own constitution, either physiologically, psychologically, or both. It was not believed to be contagious, SO those suffering from the disease were not avoided. Recommended steps toward prevention included fresh air, a wholesome diet, exercise, and healthy manual labor. In "Consumption in America," a series of three articles published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869, Dr. Henry Bowditch theorized that damp soil was the main cause of consumption. He advised towns to drain wet areas and families to occupy only sunlit homes sited on dry soils. The disease affected Concordians in two ways: by the sheer number of people who contracted it and by the way it descended upon certain families. Thanks to the record- keeping and analysis done by men like Lemuel Shattuck, Ezra Ripley, and Edward Jarvis, there are statistics on deaths in Concord which detail dates, ages, and causes. These records show that consumption was the leading cause of death in Concord in the first half of the 19th century. The same was true in neighboring towns: Acton, Billerica, Bedford, and Carlisle all exhibiting the similar results. Tuberculosis was everywhere. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/winter03/tuberculosis.html 2/23/2007 A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord Page 3 of 5 Concord families unduly affected by consumption included the Barretts, Buttricks, Melvins, Heywoods, and Hosmers. In these families, death from consumption took place both within as well as across generations. In the records can be found family tragedies, such as the case of Lucy and Lemuel Phillips, sister and brother, who died within a month of each Ravages of tuberculosis other in 1802. She was 19 and he was 22. The Dudley family lost Rebecca in 1803 (age 19), Mary in 1804 (age 26) and their father, Samuel, in 1806. Mary E. Wright died in January of 1837 at age 42 and her daughter, Mary, in April at age 16. Cases like these are found throughout the records. Caring for each other and simply living in the same home were enough to spread consumption through a family. Some of Concord's most revered families fell victim to tuberculosis. Both Emerson and Thoreau came from what were recognized as "consumptive" families- those with many cases. The first known case in the Emerson family was that of Reverend William Emerson, Ralph Waldo's father, who had the disease when he died in 1811 at the age of 42. Ruth Haskins Emerson went on to raise their children herself, and by her hard work the Emerson brothers grew to adulthood and went on to attend Harvard College. However, all had symptoms of tuberculosis. Both Edward and Charles died of it while in their late twenties. Waldo appeared to have symptoms of the disease at various times in his life, once writing of having "a mouse gnawing at his chest," but died of an unrelated illness at age 79. Emerson's marriage to Ellen Tucker was prematurely ended by tuberculosis. Their relationship had http://www.concordma.com/magazine/winter03/tuberculosis.html 2/23/2007 A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord Page 4 of 5 a storybook quality to it: two gifted young people in the midst of passionate first love, a world of opportunity awaiting them. She was just 16 when they met, attractive, intelligent, and energetic, and within a year they were engaged. But both romantically and tragically, she was also from a consumptive family and already had the disease. They were married in September of 1829 and she died on February 8, 1831, only nineteen years old. Their relationship had been intensified by the knowledge that it would be necessarily brief. "My angel is gone to heaven this morning and I am alone in the world and strangely happy," he wrote to his Aunt Mary Moody Emerson two hours after Ellen had died. Her struggle was over. His second wife Lydian would later graciously name their first daughter after Ellen. Henry David Thoreau succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 44. For Thoreau, too, it was a family illness. His grandfather had died of it in 1801, and when Henry's father died in 1859 his symptoms were consistent with tuberculosis. His brother John was living with it, though tetanus took him first, and their sister Helen became a victim in 1849 at age thirty-six. Henry himself had developed a severe cold in the early winter of 1860 that kept him housebound and diminished his productivity. The following spring he took a trip to Minnesota (at the time thought to be a favorable place for recovery from respiratory problems), but when he returned two months later his health had further declined. He continued to work on various projects and papers, but he was failing. With his sister Sophia by his side, he died on the morning of May 6th, 1862. Was there a citizen in 19th century Concord who had not been touched by the loss of a friend or family member to consumption? Sisters, mothers, sons, daughters, fathers were lost to this omnipresent disease. It was an intimate, if unwelcome, part of everyone's life. And not until the advent of antibiotics could the lurking fear of consumption be put to rest. Editor's Note: Tuberculosis is not gone if forgotten. Since 1985, TB has slowly come back in the US. Though the number of cases reported in the US has been dropping 1992, there were more than 16,000 cases reported in 2000. See the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to find out more. Sources: http://www.concordma.com/magazine/winter03/tuberculosis.htm 2/23/2007 A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord Page 5 of 5 Bowditch, M.D. Henry I. "Consumption in America," Atlantic Monthly 23 (1869): 51 (pt. 1), 177 (pt. 2), 315 (pt. 3). Caldwell, Mark. The Last Crusade: The War on Consumption, 1862-1954. New York: Atheneum, 1988, Dormandy, Thomas. The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Jarvis, Edward. Traditions & Reminiscences of Concord, Massachusetts, 1779-1878, edited by Sarah Chapin. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Jarvis family account book, 1798-1840, which includes records of Concord deaths, 1778-1850, originally recorded by E. Ripley, H. Goodwin, and B. Frost, transcribed by Capt. Francis Jarvis & daughters Louisa & Lucy. (Courtesy of the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections). Myerson, Joel, editor. The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Richardson, Jr. Robert D. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. -- Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Photos: Top - Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library. All others courtesy of ArtToday. Backgrounds: EOS Development and Word of Mouth Design. Back Next ConcordMA.com This website is a gift to the Concord community from ConcordMA.com, a full- Concord. Massachusetts USA service Internet design and marketing company. 978 369-0113. PO Box 285, Concord, MA 01742 webmaster@concordmna.com http://www.concordma.com/magazine/winter03/tuberculosis.htm 2/23/2007 "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library, 13 West Street, Bos. Page 1 of 3 Live in Concord! the Concord Table of Contents Sponsorship Beautiful Search Our Site Reading List Subscribe Contact Us Concord House Back Issues ConcordMA.com for Back Next Rent click here "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library, 13 West Street, Boston, 1840-1852 by Conni Manoli-Skocay, archives assistant, Concord Free Public Library Special Collections, and archivist/historian, Carlisle Historical Society. Though Thomas Wentworth Higginson referred to it as "an atom of a bookshop," Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library exerted an influence on Boston's intellectual community that belied its small size. Within its walls flowed an exchange between many of Boston's best minds, and available there were the vital philosophical, historical, and click to enlarge literary texts that provided inspiration and enrichment for their discourse. From 1840 to 1852 the brilliant and energetic Elizabeth Palmer Peabody ran a bookstore and circulating Foreign Library at 13 West Street in Boston. Far more than a business, it served as a salon for Boston's nineteenth- century Transcendentalist community. Among those who found their way there were Dr. William Ellery Channing, "the father of American Unitarianism," reformer and abolitionist Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller, who held a number of her famous conversations there. For George and Sophia Ripley and their Brook Farm associates, it served as an incubator in which to formulate their utopian vision. Editors of and contributors to The Dial, a periodical for the dissemination of Transcendentalist thought met there, and Peabody herself served as publisher in 1842 and 1843. The New England Transcendentalists were influenced by a variety of foreign authors, including Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Swedenborg. They found http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn05/elizabethpeabody.html 2/23/2007 "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library, 13 West Street, Bos Page 2 of 3 inspiration in the writings of Plato and the English Neo- amazon.com Platonic writers, as well as Confucius and the sacred texts and you're done. of the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavadgita, but the availability of such works was limited. In response, Peabody assembled a collection that specifically addressed their needs, while at the same time reflecting her deepest interests and concerns. Culture of Eloquence No Worthless Books, an James Perrin Warre Best $25.00! exhibit focusing on Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library, opens at Elizabeth Palmer the Concord Free Public OB U RES COMPLETES Peabody Bruce A. Ronda Library on October 3 and GENTE no CHOSPENISM runs through November 30, Record of a school Foreign Library 2005. It explores all aspects Elizabeth Palmer P No. 13 West Street of the Foreign Library: its This Loary will be mostly in Ferrigo organization and patrons, and Amount can Becks will not Do excluded These The contributions of will-be the principal English, Pertich and authors and texts, and the German Periodicals, which with remin " Horace Mann, Ma the Literry that time Sy examination significance of the Foreign class they are classisted Robert J Saunders Sebucritives can take ALL two Books a time, which be returned Library to Boston's leading who * marty, If any Book le kept OUL Method of spiritual more thin one when another sux culture intellectuals and its writer maste it, it will be charged to the additional time by the neek. Elizabeth Palmer P influence on Tany book be last or injered, is made good. Filty Subscribers only. will be adulted Transcendental thought. at fine Term, Five DOLLIRE year. (Prices may change) Privacy Information The inspiration for the exhibit, organized by Leslie Wilson, curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library, was the discovery and subsequent recovery of Foreign Library volumes in the Library's circulating collection during the early 1980s. They had been presented to the Concord Free Public Library by Elizabeth Peabody, primarily in 1878. A selection of works from the collection of the Foreign Library is supported by the exceptional extant documentation, including information on its establishment, operation, clientele, Peabody's own letters and journals, the reminiscences of family, friends, and associates, and related materials. The exhibit highlights the breadth and depth of the texts contained in the Foreign Library and is testimony to Elizabeth Peabody's contention that her collection contain no worthless books. "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library, 13 West Street, Boston, 1840-1852 runs from October 3 to November 30, 2005 in the Gallery at the Concord Free Public Library. The exhibit, curated by Leslie Wilson, Concord Free Public Library Special Collections Curator, is open during regular library hours. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn05/elizabethpeabody.htm 2/23/2007 "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library, 13 West Street, Bos Page 3 of 3 In conjunction with the exhibit, Professor Lawrence Buell of Harvard University will speak on Transcendentalism as a Medium for the Wisdom of the World at the Concord Free Public Library on October 30, 2005. The lecture is at 5:00 and will be preceded by refreshments in the Trustee's Room at 4:00. Those who attend the lecture may also view the exhibit. All are welcome. Back Next ConcordMA.com This website is a gift to the Concord community from ConcordMA.com. Webmaster: Concord. Massachusetts USA webmaster@concordma.com http://www.concordma.com/magazine/autumn05/elizabethpeabody.html 2/23/2007 244 , Sept. 30 THE CONCORD SUMMER SCHOOL or PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE. 1879-80. Early in the year 1879 a Faculty of Philosophy was organized informally at Concord, Massachusetts, with ers residing, some in that town, some in the vicinity of Boston, and others at the West. In course of the g, the Dean of this Faculty, Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT, and the Secretary, Mr. F. B. SANBORN, both of ord, issned the following circular : A Summer School for instruction by conference and conversation in literature and the higher philosophy, pen at the Orchard House of Mr. Alcott, in Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, July 15, 1879, and 1 for five weeks. The classes will be conducted by five Professors, who will each give ten Lectures or ersations between the hours of 9 and 11, A. M., and 8 and 5, P. M. each day of the week, except Sun- being devoted to two sessions, and no more. Five days in the week will be occupied by the regular Pro- 3, and the sixth by special Lecturers on related subjects. The regular Professors will be,- A. BRONSON ALCOTT, of Concord, on Christian Theirm. WILLIAM T. HARRIS, of St. Louls, on Speculative Philosophy. H. K. JONES. of Jacksonville, Ill., on Platonic Philosophy. DAVID A. WASSON, of Medford, on Political Philosophy. Mrs. EDNAH D. CHENEY, of Boston, on The History and Moral of Art. The special Lecturers will be,- F. B. SANBORN, of Concord, on Philanthropy and Social Science. T. W. HIGGINSON, of Cambridge, on Modern literature. THOMAS DAVIDSON, of Boston, on Greek Life and Literature. GEORGE H. HOWISON, of Boston, on Philosophy from Leibnitz to Hegel; and others. The terms will be 83 for each of the courses of ten sessions; but each student will be required to pay at 810 for the term, which will permit him to attend three of the regular courses and all the special lectures. fees for all the courses, regular and special, will be $15, or 83 a week. Board may be obtained in the e nt from 86 to $12 a week,-80 that students may estimate their necessary expenses for the whole term at A few single tickets at 50 cents each, will be issued for the convenience of occasional visitors. All students should be registered on or before July 1, 1879, at the office of the Secretary. in Concord. No ninary examinations are required, and no limitation of age, sex, or residence in Concord will be prescribed ; is recommended that persons under eighteen years should not present themselves as students, and that who take all the courses should reside in the town during the term. The Concord Public Library of 0 volumes, will be open every day for the use of residents. Students coming and going daily during the may reach 'Concord from Boston by the Fitchburg Railroad, or the Middlesex Central from Lowell, ver, etc., by the Lowell and Framingham Railroad from Southern Middlesex and Worcester Counties by me road. The Orchard House stands on the Lexington road, east of Concord village, adjoining the Way- estate, formerly the residence of Mr. Hawthorne. 245 Sept. 30 It Mr. Howison's request, in the course of the Summer, his name was dropped from the list of special rers, and those of Mr. R. W. Emerson, Prof. Benjamin Peirce, of Cambridge, and Rev. Dr. Bartol were 1. As finally arranged, the Professors and Lecturers gave their conversations and readings as follows Mr. ALCOTT'S Clneses, (9 A.M.) July 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 81; August 5, 7, 12. 16.t Mrs. CHENKY'S Classes, (8 P.M.) July 15, 22, 29 Auguat 6, 18.t " (9 A.M.) July 16, 28, 80 August 6, 14. Prof. HARRIS'S Classes (8 P.M.) July 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 24, 25, 28 August 4,4 5. Dr. JONES'S Classca, (9 A.M.) July 18, 21, 25, 28 August 1, 4, 8, 11, 18, 15. Mr. WASSON'S Classes, (3 P.M.) July 80, 81 August 1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16. Mr. HIGGINSON'S two Lectures, (9 A.M.) July 19, 26. Prof. PRIRCE'S " (8 P.M.) July 19, 26. Mr. DAVIDSON'S " D A.M.) August 2, 9.t Mr. SANDORN'S " " (8 P.M.) August 9, 16.t Mr. EMERSON'S Lecture, (8 P.M.) August 2 (nt the Second Parish Ventry). Mr. H. G. O. BLAKE'S Reading from the Thoreau Manuscripts, August 6.t Dr. BARTOL'S Lecture, (10 A.M.) August 16. [tAt 7.80 P.M.] he Classca met at the Orchard House, except for Mr. Emerson's Lecture, Mr. Blake's Reading from Thorean, 3 four evening lectures (August 4, 9, 18, 16), which were given in the Second Parish Vestry, on Walden r. Alcott, Dean of the Faculty, opened the School on the morning of July 15, with an address of welcome, esed it on the evening of August 16, with A valedictory address. t the other times above-noted, the persons named gave Lectures, Readings or Conversations on the following -occupying for each exercise R period of above two hours, on the average ectures by Mr. A. Bronson Alcott : 1. Welcome, and plan of future conversations. 2. The Powers of the in the descending scale. 8. The same in the ascending scale. 4. Incarnation. 5. The Powers of ality in detail. 6. The Origin of Evil. 7. The Lapso into Evil. 8. The Return from the Lapse (the nent.) 9. Life Eternal. 10. Valedictory. clures by Prof. W. T. Harris: 1. How Philosophical Knowing differs from all other forms of Knowing B Intentions of the mind. 2. The discovery of the First Principle and its relation to the Universe. 3. Fate eedom. 4. The consclous and unconscious First Principle in relation to human life. 5. The Personality 6. The Immortality of the Soul. 7. Physiological Psychology. 8. The method of study of Specu- 'hilosophy. 9. Art, Religion and Philosophy in relation to each other and to man. 10. The Dialectic. clures by Mrs. E. D. Cheney: 1. The genoral subject of Art. 2. Greek Art. 8. Early Italian Art. an Art. 5. Michael Angelo. 6. Spanish Art. 7. German Art. 8. Albert Dürer. 9. French Art. itemporaneous Art. tures by Dr. H. K. Jones: 1. General content of the Platonio Philosophy. 2. The Apology of Socrates. Platonic idea of Church and State. 4. The Immortality of the Soul. 5. Reminiscence as related to the tence of the Soul. 6. Pre-existence. 7. The Human Body. 8. The Republic. 9. The Material Body. cation. tures by Mr. D. A. Wasson: 1. Social Genesis and Texture. 2. The Nation. 8. Individualism ns al Principle. 4. Public Obligation. 5. Sovereignty. 6. Absolutism crowned and uncrowned. 7. Rep- on. 8. Rights. 9. The Making of Freedom. 10. The Political Splrit of '76. tures by Prof. Benjamin Peirce: 1. Ideality in Science. 2. Coemogony. Mr. T. W. Higginson. 1. The Birth of American Literature. 2. Literature in a Republic. Mr. Thomas Davidson: 1. The History of Athens AR revealed in its topography and monuments. name, continued. Mr. Emerson: 1. Memory. Mr. Sanborn: 1. Social science. 2. Philanthropy and Public Charities. Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol: 1. Education. Mr. H. G. O. Blake: 1. Selections from Thoreau's Manuscripts. se subjects will give a general notion of the ecope of the School in its first year. The courses of (with exception of Mrs. Cheney's, which were historical and biographical,) were distinctly philosophi- le the single lectures and pairs were either literary or general in their character. The conversations 246 1879, Sept. 30 accompanying or following the lectures took A wide range, and were carried on by the students, the Faculty, and by invited guests, among whom may be specially named Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody and Mrs. R. W. Emerson, of Concord, Rev. Dr. Kidney, of Faribault, Minn., and Mr. R. G. Hazard, of Rhode Island. By the courtesy of certain families in Concord, evening Conversations and Receptions, eight in all, were given at the houses of Mr. Emerson, Mr. Edward Hoar, Miss Ripley, Mr. Fay Barrett, Mr. Edwin S. Barrett, Mr. R. N. Rice, Mr. Alcott, and Judge Hoar thus testifying the hospitality of the town, and bringing the School into social relations with its people. The whole number of persons, (students, invited guests and visitors,) who attended one or more sessions of the School was nearly 400, of whom about one-fourth were residents of Concord. Others came from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connectiont, New York, New Jorsey, Penneylvania, Vir- ginia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, California, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Twenty-eight course tickets were issued, of which 27 were used; about 20 complimentary course tickets, of which perhaps 15 were used and about 1150 single tickets were issued and used. The average attendance of students was about 40 ; of students and Faculty about 45 but at Mr. Emer- non's lecture 160 were present, and at several of the other sessions more than 70. The receipts from fees and single tickets paid all the expenses of the School, without leaving a surplus thus showing that the scale of tui- tion and expense adopted was a reasonable one. This will therefore he continued In the coming year, as act forth in the circular above-cited. The CONCORD SUMMER School. will open for a second term, on Monday, July 12, 1880, at 9, A. M., and will continue five weeks. The lectures will be arranged in courses of five, in pairs, and by single lectures : and in each week there will be cleven. They will be given morning and evening, except Saturday evenings, on the six secular days, and, RO far as can now be foreseen, will be arranged as follows Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Prof. W. T. HARRIS, Dean of the Faculty, Lectures on Specialitive Philosophy and on Leotures on Mysticism. The History of Philosophy. Mr. ALCOTT will also deliver the Salutatory and Mr. D. A. WASSON, Valedictory, and will have general charge of the Lectures on The Philosophy of History. conversations of the School. Rev. J. 8. KIDNEY, D.D., Dr. H. K. JONES, Lectures on The Philosophy of the Beautiful Lectures on The Platonic Philosophy and on and the Sublime. Platonism in its Relation to Modern Civiliza- Mr. DENTON J. SNIDER, tion. Lectures on Shakespeare. Mr. F. B. SANBORN, Lectures on The Philosophy of Charity. The following Indica and gentlemen will deliver one or more lectures each during the continuance of the School. The subjects, 80 far as already known, are mentioned below: Mrs. E. D. CHENEY, on Color and American Art; Miss ANNA C. BRACKETT, on The Philosophy of Teach- ing; Mrs. JULIA WARD Hows, on Modern Society; Mr. R. W. EMERSON, Mr. H. G. O. BLAKE, Prof. B. PRIRCK, Rev. C. A. BARTOL, D. D., Rev. A. P. PEABODY, D. D., Rev. F. H. HEDGE. D. D., Mr. Jonn ALBER, Mr. S. H. EMERY, Jr., Mr. E. MULFORD, and Mr. GEORGE H. HOWISON. A. BRONSON ALCOTT, H. K. JONES, W. T. HARRIS, 8. H. EMERY, JR., Director. F. B. SANBORN, Secretary. For the Faculty of the Concord School. CONCORD, September 30, 1879.