RALPH WALDO EMERSON Autograph Letter Signed RW Emerson to hi

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Autograph Letter Signed, "R.W. Emerson," to his friend and later biographer Alexander Ireland, arranging a meeting, declining the services of Mr. Brown of Selkirk, anticipating a tour of the colleges at Oxford from philologist Friedrich Max Müller. 2 1/4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; slight fading to signature and last few lines of text, minor scattered soiling. "Oxford, House of Professor Max Muller," 1 May 1873

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". . . I have been travelling too fast for your letters to catch me. Today I . . . rush to say with thankfulness & regret that my day for reaching Manchester should be the 12th May & that I will come to you then at Bowdon. . . . [I]t will be left . . . to sit down at Kennedy's Hotel in Edinburgh & trust to the ordinary references for our visit to the important points . . . ."