?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Autograph Document Signed, twice, "R. Waldo Emerson" (one in the third person within the text), granting power of attorney to Leander Gage for the purpose of taking custody of Emerson's property once belonging to his uncle Robert Haskins. Additionally signed by his elder brother Charles Chauncy Emerson as witness. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, with integral blank; unsigned certification written in 16 lines at bottom of second page in another hand [Gage's?], folds. Waterford, 17 October 1835
". . . I, R. Waldo Emerson of Boston . . . do hereby . . . appoint Dr. Leander Gage . . . my lawful attorney . . . to receive delivery & take possession of . . . two pair of oxen, one ox waggon, one horse, one colt, two cows, & all the other stock & farming implements & utensils on the farm of Robert Haskins . . . ."
