(WOMEN) Pair of letters by important women in the Transcende

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(WOMEN.) Pair of letters by important women in the Transcendentalist movement. Each 4to, 4 pages on a folding sheet; condition generally strong. Vp, 1845 and 1848

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Autograph Letter Signed to Miss [Mary Moody?] Emerson. Concerning a dispute over reading a private letter left on a table; cites Mr. Alcott and Mr. Mann as authorities. Np, 7 October 1845 Abigail May "Abby" Alcott, mother of Louisa May. Autograph Letter Signed to Ann Gage. "I always rejoiced over the birth of each girl-child. . . . They bring a dower in their love, a purity in their gentle hearts, which no royal diadem can surpass in value or brilliancy." Concord, MA, 13 July 1848. Provenance: from the collection of William Wheeler III.