56.   Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Autograph letter to John Brown, Jr., April 30, 1865.  Ink on paper.  From the First Parish in Concord records.
 

   Emerson affirmed his desire to become a member of the First Parish in Concord in this letter of April 30, 1865, to John Brown, Jr.  Brown was a member of the church’s Standing Committee and, from 1873 until 1899, a deacon.

   This document provides a dramatic counterpoint to Henry Thoreau’s well-known 1841 sign-off from membership in the First Parish.

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