23. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nature (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836). Letterpress on paper; bound in green cloth. Myerson A3.1.a (second state; binding Cloth 7, Stamping B). From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
24. Ralph Waldo Emerson. An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837). Letterpress on paper; half bound in light brown morocco and marbled paper boards; original printed light brown paper wrapper retained. Myerson A5.1. Inscribed in Emerson’s hand: “Rev. Dr. Francis, / With the respects of R.W.E.” From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
25. 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). Letterpress on paper; half bound in light brown morocco and marbled paper boards; original printed blue paper wrapper retained. Myerson A7.1. From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
26. The Dial, 1840-1844. Letterpress on paper; half bound in dark brown morocco and marbled paper boards; original printed paper wrappers retained. From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
27. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Seven autograph letters from a collection of twenty-two letters from Emerson to Charles King Newcomb, 1842-1858. Selection displayed: March 18, April 9, May 7, June 8, and August 16, 1842; August 9, and September 1, 1843. Ink on paper. Collection presented by Mrs. Arthur Holland, 1929.
28. Carte de visite photograph of Emerson (head and shoulders) in middle age. Presented by Mrs. Arthur Holland.
29. Mayall, photographer. Carte de visite photograph of Hawthorne (head and shoulders), London, 1860. Purchased, 2001.
30. Photograph of Elizabeth Hoar and child, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
31. Samuel Worcester Rowse. Henry David Thoreau, 1854. Crayon on paper. From the bequest of Sophia Thoreau, 1876/77.
32. Photograph of Ellery Channing, from Alfred Winslow Hosmer’s extra-illustrated copy of the second edition of Salt’s Life of Henry David Thoreau (1896). A.W. Hosmer’s Thoreau library, including the extra-illustrated Salt, presented by Herbert Buttrick Hosmer, 1949.
33. Photograph of Bronson Alcott, from photographic print.
34. Photogravure of Charles King Newcomb, from a plate in Volume VIII of Emerson’s Journals (1912).
35. Cabinet card photograph of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
36. Photograph of engraving of
Margaret Fuller, from Alfred Winslow Hosmer’s extra-illustrated copy of
the second edition of Salt’s Life of Henry David Thoreau (1896).
A.W. Hosmer’s Thoreau library, including the extra-illustrated Salt, presented
by Herbert Buttrick Hosmer, 1949.
Exhibition table of contents - Exhibition Introduction - I. Emerson's Concord Heritage - II. Settling In -- The Emerson House - III. Taking a Place in Town Life -- the 1835 Celebration - IV. At the Center of the Circle - V. Concord's Conscience - VI. Citizen, Townsman, Friend, and Family Man - VII. The Respect and Affection of Concord - VIII. Concord Keeps the Flame - Special Collections Home.