DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Preferred Citation
BIOGRAPHY
SCOPE AND CONTENT
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letter,
Date (inclusive): 1862
Collection number: MSS 0423
Extent: 0.10 linear feet (1 leaf in one folder)
Repository:
Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego
Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Preferred Citation
Ralph Waldo Emerson letter, MSS 0423. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
BIOGRAPHY
Nineteenth-century American philosopher, poet, and scholar.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
One page holograph letter, dated 6 May 1862, to "My Dear Blake" and informing the
addressee of Thoreau's death and pending funeral arrangements.
The letter had been laid in Herbert W. Gleason's THROUGH THE YEAR WITH THOREAU (1917,
RARE PS3042 .G63 1917).