Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803-1882)

Attended Harvard (A.B. 1821)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Academy of American Poets Biography
Harvard American National Biography Online
  The Poetry Foundation Biography

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rare Materials
Oasis Finding Aid: Emerson Family Papers, 1699-1939 
Includes compositions and correspondence by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson family members, and others.
Oasis Finding Aid: Letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1814-1882 
Includes letters from colleagues and friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Oasis Finding Aid: Additional Correspondence, 1825-1881 
Includes letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to various correspondents, including Thomas Carlyle, Edward Everett Hale, and Samuel Gray Ward. Also includes several autograph manuscript poems.
Oasis Finding Aid: Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Papers, 1946-1968. 
Includes a variety of materials spanning the years from 1946 to 1968, concerning the inventory, editorial work, and eventual publication of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hollis HOLLIS Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson Finding Aids
Digital Highlights
  Googlebooks: Essays (J. Munroe & Co., 1841) 
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
  Googlebooks: Poems (J. Munroe & Co., 1847) 
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
  Googlebooks: Nature: Addresses and Lectures (J. Munroe & Co., 1849) 
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

  The Harvard Gazette: "Emerson Impression Remains Clear at Harvard" (April 1, 2003)
  The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute
  The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society