Section VI Essay
Essay:
Emerson's Concord
46. H.F. Walling. Concord Village. Inset from Map of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. … , 1852. Engraved map, printed on paper, and hand-colored.
47. John Warner Barber. Central Part of Concord, Mass., 1839. From illustration in Barber’s Historical Collections, Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, &c., Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts … (Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1840). Illustration drawn by Barber, engraved by Downes, and printed.
48. Concord Center, south side, circa 1865. Photograph from the bequest of Mrs. Adams Tolman.
49. Herbert Wendell Gleason. Walden from Emerson’s Cliff. From hand-colored glass lantern slide, from the slide lecture “Thoreau’s Country,” purchased from H.W. Gleason, 1936.
50. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “On the Completion of the Monument at Concord … ” [“Concord Hymn”], page [333] in The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). Letterpress on paper; bound in brown cloth. Myerson G16.
51. Records of the Concord Lyceum (Volume A1), showing entries for meetings, April 18-June 13, 1838, documenting Emerson’s delivery of the lecture series “Human Culture.” Ink on paper; bound in leather.
52. Waybill for Boston, Lexington, and Concord Accommodation Stage, April 20, 1839. Printed paper form filled in by hand, in ink. From the Nathan Brooks papers.
53. Report of the Standing Committee of the Concord Social Library, in Emerson’s hand, January 6, 1851. Ink on paper. From the records of the Concord Social Library, transferred to the Concord Town Library in 1851 and to the Concord Free Public Library in 1873.
54. Order of Exercises at the Dedication of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Sept. 29, 1855, 2, P.M. [printed program] (Concord: B. Tolman, 1855). Letterpress on paper.
55. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Address,” pages [45]-52 in Transactions of the Middlesex Agricultural Society, for the Year 1858 (Concord: Benjamin Tolman, 1858). Letterpress on paper; in original printed peach paper wrapper. Myerson D31. Signature of E.R. Hoar on front.
56. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Autograph letter to John Brown, Jr., April 30, 1865. Ink on paper. From the First Parish in Concord records.
57. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Address,” pages [27]-52 in Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers’
Monument, in Concord, Mass. (Concord: Benjamin Tolman, 1867).
Letterpress on paper; half bound in red morocco and marbled paper boards;
original printed lavender paper wrapper retained. Myerson
D67. From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented
by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
58. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Autograph letter of introduction for E.R. Hoar to Harriet Martineau, April 1, 1847. Ink on paper. From the Hoar family papers, presented by Virginia Hoar Frecha, 1999.
59. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Autograph letter to E.R. Hoar, January 1, [1866]. Ink on paper. From the Hoar family papers, presented by Virginia Hoar Frecha, 1999.
60. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Manuscript subscription letter for herbarium to be made by Horace Mann, Jr., for the Concord Town Library, [1866]. Ink on paper. From the Ralph Waldo Emerson papers.
61. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Address,” pages 37-45 in Dedication of the New Building for the Free Public Library of Concord, Massachusetts, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1873 (Boston: Tolman & White, 1873). Letterpress on paper; half bound in light brown morocco and marbled paper boards; original printed gray paper wrapper retained. Myerson D87. From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
62. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Culture,” holograph manuscript, [1860]. Ink on paper; half bound in red morocco and green cloth boards. Presented by James T. Fields, 1873.
63. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Address,” pages 79-81 in Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875 (Concord: Published by the Town, 1876). Letterpress on paper; bound in maroon cloth. Myerson D98. From the Emerson collection of William Taylor Newton, presented by Edith Emerson Forbes and Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
64. Henry David Thoreau. Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). Letterpress on paper; bound in brown cloth. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: “R.W. Emerson / from / H.D.T.” Presented by Ellen Emerson Cotton, 1982.
65. Henry David Thoreau. RWE Lot by Walden, Surveyed by Hubbard Dec. ’48 (copied Dec. ’57): manuscript property survey. Pencil on paper; encapsulated. Survey 31a from the Thoreau survey collection in the Henry David Thoreau papers. Bequeathed by Sophia Thoreau, 1876.
66. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Autograph letter to Henry D. Thoreau (all-purpose letter of introduction
for Thoreau in Minnesota), May 11, 1861. Ink on paper.
From the Ralph Waldo Emerson papers. From the collection of the Concord
Antiquarian Society, presented to the library in 1974.
Emerson in his Family:
67. Photograph of Ralph Waldo and Lidian Emerson with children and grandchildren, on the steps of Bush, 1879, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
68. Photograph of Ruth Haskins Emerson in old age, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
69. Photograph of William Emerson (RWE’s brother), from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
70. Photograph of bas relief (medallion head) of Charles Chauncy Emerson, from Emerson family photograph album; original plaster medallion in Emerson House. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
71. Photograph of portrait of Emerson’s daughters Edith (left) and Ellen (right) as young children, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
72. Photograph of Lidian Emerson holding young son Edward, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
73. Photograph of Edith Emerson as a child, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
74. Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson reading with adolescents Edward and Edith, from Emerson family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes Emerson, 1982.
75. Photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson
with his son Edward and baby grandson Charles Lowell Emerson, from Emerson
family photograph album. Album from the estate of Amelia Forbes
Emerson, 1982.
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.