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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Manuscript leaf, portion of an essay, with corrections in Emerson's hand, inlaid and bound in to volume one of the Autograph

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Manuscript leaf, portion of an essay, with corrections in Emerson's hand, inlaid and bound in to volume one of the Autograph Edition of his Complete Works. Volume 1 only (of 22). The manuscript, approximately 22 lines on both sides of one sheet; clean separation along portion of fold. 8vo, publisher's cloth, backstrip detached. Np, nd

  • Notes: This portion of the essay beginning, "their watch on a needle & thread, or a cobbler's lapstone, or a switchman's turntable, as on the moon's orbit?" and with the final lines, "Is it so important whether a man wears a buckle, or ties his shoe lappet with a string? Whether he binds his clothes above his haunches with a belt, or with a wooden burron?"

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