Early Collectors and Donors: William Taylor Newton's Emerson Collection

26.  Ralph Waldo Emerson.  An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838 . . . (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1838).

Emerson, Divinity School Address
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Emerson, Divinity School Address
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William Taylor Newton’s copy, with wrapper retained in the binding.  From the Newton/Emerson Collection (part of the CFPL Concord Authors Collection).  Gift of Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.

A first printing of the “Divinity School Address,” which triggered the reactionary response of the conservative Andrews Norton, a biblical scholar and professor at the Harvard Divinity School, and resulted in Emerson’s decades-long exile from Harvard.

 

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