?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
"I FIND NO MORE FLAGRANT PROOF OF SKEPTICISM THAN THE TOLERATION OF SLAVERY" EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, 10 lines, notes for the essay "Worship" in his The Conduct of Life (1860), likely removed from the Autograph Centenary Edition of Emerson's Complete Works published by Houghton Mifflin in 1903-04. 1¼ pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, pale blue paper; inlaid, horizontal fold. Np, circa 1860
"I find no more flagrant proof of skepticism than the toleration of Slavery. "How much it is the natural action of the healthful man appears herein, that it is in some manner the Source of Intellect that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude." With--Edward W. Emerson. Autograph Letter Signed, to General Charles Austin Coolidge, remembering Edward [Coolidge] (the recently-deceased brother of Charles], stating of his own life that he has had much more than he deserves, and recounting news of mutual friends. 8 pages, small 8vo, written on two folded sheets. Concord, 17 October 1920.
