Nature; addresses, and lectures. / By R.W. Emerson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Contributor:

• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

• Essays.

Penn Provenance:

• Corlies, Margaret D. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)
• Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

vi, 383 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston; Cambridge : J. Munroe, 1849.

Contents:

• Nature.
• The American scholar. An oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
• An address to the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838.
• Literary ethics. An address to the literary societies in Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
• The method of nature. An address to the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841.
• Man the reformer. A lecture read before the Mechanics Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841.
• Introductory lecture on the times. Read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, Dec. 2, 1841.
• The conservative. A lecture read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, Dec. 9, 1841.
• The transcendentalist. A lecture read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842.
• The young American. A lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844.

Notes:

• "Boston: Thurston, Torry and Company, 31 Devonshire Street."--T.p. verso.
• Publisher's advertisements (8 p.) precede 1st flyleaf.
• "All examined copies, including reprints dated 1850, have a one line errata on p. vi."--Cf. BAL.

Local Notes:

• Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of Margaret D. Corlies, 1850.
• Culture Class Collection copy 1 has some unopened leaves.
• Culture Class Collection copy 2 imperfect: publisher's advertisements (8 p.) wanting.
• Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Cited in:

BAL, 5218

OCLC:

272000