The Method of Nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Boston, 1803 - 1882, Concord, Massachusetts)
publisher
James R. Osgood and Company
(American, 1870 - 1885)
Date1841
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumInk on paper in leather binding
Dimensions26 x 28.5 x 1.5 cm (10 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009209
eMuseum ID724867
EmbARK ObjectID24280
Previous NumberU10.Okakura.1
Other NumberU3n41
TMS Source ID8848
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 v.; 34 ff.Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryRalph Waldo Emerson was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement. His writing is synonymous with its progressive social values and spiritual identification with the natural environment. This original manuscript contains an address given at a college in Maine in 1841 and shows signs of the author’s own edits. Isabella Stewart Gardner displayed this manuscript alongside materials related to other important American authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, in the Blue Room.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
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