Smithsonian Magazine

This 1837 Harvard Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspired a Generation of American Writers to Declare Their Independence From ‘the Courtly Muses of Europe’

On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...
The New York Times

GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS; RALPH WALDO WALDO EMERSON'S WILL. NO PUBLIC BEQUESTS--THE PROPERTY DIVIDED AMONG HIS CHILDREN.

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