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Herman Melville’s Opinion of Ralph Waldo Emerson
From a letter to Evert Augustus Duyckinck of March 3, 1849. “I was very agreeably disappointed in Mr Emerson. I had heard of him as full of transcendentalisms, myths & oracular gibberish; I had only glanced at a book of his once in Putnam’s store — that was all I knew of him, till I… Continue reading
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On Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Funeral
It was, by all accounts I’ve found, a beautiful day. Late in May, after a week of rain in Concord, it was a sunny day of blue skies. Nathaniel Hawthorne had died on May 19, 1864 while traveling in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with his Bowdoin College friend, the former US President Franklin… Continue reading
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8 Photos from a trip to The Old Manse in Concord 9.10.22
I visited The Old Manse today. This is a house built in 1770 for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather, William Emerson. Emerson and Hawthorne both lived there for short periods of time in the 1830s and 1840s. All the photos are mine. The words are mostly by Hawthorne. The Old Manse on 09.10.2022. Between two tall… Continue reading
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