Letter to Elizabeth Peabody from Concord
correspondent
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Boston, 1803 - 1882, Concord, Massachusetts)
Date30 October 1838
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions25.5 x 20 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.001876
eMuseum ID724872
EmbARK ObjectID24278
Other NumberU3n43
TMS Source ID8847
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryRalph Waldo Emerson and Elizabeth Peabody were important members of American Transcendentalism, a progressive social and spiritual movement. As a pioneering Kindergarten educator, Peabody published widely on the subject of early childhood education and established a bookstore on West Street in Boston in 1839. She established her own printing press to promote Transcendentalist authors, including Emerson and the feminist Margaret Fuller. Gardner greatly admired the writers of this movement and collected numerous books, letters, and photographs associated with them.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
