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Article: An Emerson letter re-edited.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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- March 22, 2005
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Some time ago, I purchased the original of Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to Mrs. Drury, dated "22 May,". The location of the letter was unknown to scholars but the letter's content was not. It was available in a copy of the letter in the Dawes Memorial Library, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. (1) Ralph L. Rusk availed himself of a photocopy of the Marietta copy, which apparently he later deposited in the Columbia University Library, in a summary published in his multivolume edition of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1939 (5: 234).
Eleanor M. Tilton, Rusk's successor as editor of the Emerson letters, reproduces the letter to Mrs. Drury from the Marietta ...
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