Letter from Mary Merrick Brooks, Concord, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, Nov. 19th / [18]45

Item Information

Place of origin:
Concord, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson refused to lecture before the New Bedford Lyceum when he learned of the colored people's expulsion "from their accustomed privileges of being received as members" of the Lyceum. Mary Merrick Brooks thinks the enemies of the colored people may try to keep Mr. Emerson's refusal a secret. Mary M. Brooks offers the services of a Miss Jervis of Concord to Caroline Weston at the Boston anti-slavery fair.
Also enclosed is a print (visual work) of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1854, artist unknown. It is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Emerson facing right. Handwritten in pencil beneath the image, is: "Emerson, Vol. I."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3134049
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.21, p.109
Barcode:
39999066744358
mq8509625