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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

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