Autograph Letter, Signed, to "Miss Russell", dated Concord, Mass., 17 April, 1855.

Emerson, R.W. (Ralph Waldo).

Published by A four page letter on a folded 10 x 8 sheet. Miss Mary Howland Russell, from Plymouth, Mass., was a childhood friend of Emerson's wife Lidian. "I wish you all the joy that your two magnificent presents sent through Lidian's hands can reflect. The children have conceived of you as some beatified person walking softly and invisibly to serve clouds of clients. Ellen read the mystic scrap of paper her mother brought her with puzzled eyes & arrived very slowly, & not unassisted, at the meaning,.I wrote, on Sunday night to Mr. Bradford (George Partridge, brother of Emerson's aunt Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, see also item 25) what was enjoined to me by Lidian;.the cheque for him I sent to his uncle Gamaliel Bradford, his banker.Mrs Ripley & Sophy

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A four page letter on a folded 10 x 8 sheet. Miss Mary Howland Russell, from Plymouth, Mass., was a childhood friend of Emerson's wife Lidian. "I wish you all the joy that your two magnificent presents sent through Lidian's hands can reflect. The children have conceived of you as some beatified person walking softly and invisibly to serve clouds of clients. Ellen read the mystic scrap of paper her mother brought her with puzzled eyes & arrived very slowly, & not unassisted, at the meaning,.I wrote, on Sunday night to Mr. Bradford (George Partridge, brother of Emerson's aunt Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, see also item 25) what was enjoined to me by Lidian;.the cheque for him I sent to his uncle Gamaliel Bradford, his banker.Mrs Ripley & Sophy (her daughter) were as much delighted as our children.". George Bradford was in Europe, partially financed by Emerson. His present from Miss Russell was $100 (James W. Mathews, "G.P. Bradford, Friend of Transcendentalists" in Studies in the American Renaissance, 1981, edited by Joel Myerson p.150). Ellen Emerson made a copy of this letter but the location of the original manuscript was unknown (Tilton, v.8 p. 428, of the Emerson Letters., 1991). In Fine condition.

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• Title: Autograph Letter, Signed, to "Miss Russell", dated Concord, Mass., 17 April, 1855.
• Publisher: A four page letter on a folded 10 x 8 sheet. Miss Mary Howland Russell, from Plymouth, Mass., was a childhood friend of Emerson's wife Lidian. "I wish you all the joy that your two magnificent presents sent through Lidian's hands can reflect. The children have conceived of you as some beatified person walking softly and invisibly to serve clouds of clients. Ellen read the mystic scrap of paper her mother brought her with puzzled eyes & arrived very slowly, & not unassisted, at the meaning,.I wrote, on Sunday night to Mr. Bradford (George Partridge, brother of Emerson's aunt Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, see also item 25) what was enjoined to me by Lidian;.the cheque for him I sent to his uncle Gamaliel Bradford, his banker.Mrs Ripley & Sophy