Nov 01, 2001 - Sale 1912

Sale 1912 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 259
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph Letter Signed, "R. Waldo Emerson," to Miss Burley, thanking her for sending the 6-volume set of Heeren, "I have read them all with more or less attention, some parts with great interest, & I owe much to so good a book." 1 page, folded 4to sheet with intergral address leaf; toned, dampstaining, folds. Concord, 13 November 1838

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Emerson quotes Heeren, a German historian, in his Essays: First Series published a few years after this letter.<