#  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 



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 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1821) Sort   







    











  [Academy of American Poets Biography](http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/201) 











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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-00508.html) 











    











  [The Poetry Foundation Biography](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81524) 











  



 





    Sort   ##  HARVARD COLLECTIONS 

 











    **General Overview** 











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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Emerson,%20Ralph%20Waldo,%201803-1882%22)&adjacent=1) 











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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%22Emerson,%20Ralph%20Waldo,%201803-1882%22%20)&adjacent=1) 











    **Rare Materials** 











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  [Finding Aid: Emerson Family Papers, 1699-1939](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00121)   
Includes compositions and correspondence by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson family members, and others. 











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  [Finding Aid: Letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1814-1882](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00123)   
Includes letters from colleagues and friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 











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  [Finding Aid: Additional Correspondence, 1825-1881](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01462)   
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. 











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  [Finding Aid: Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Papers, 1946-1968.](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02022)   
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. 











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  [HOLLIS Search: Ralph Waldo Emerson Finding Aids](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=(WAN=(%22Emerson,%20Ralph%20Waldo,%201803-1882%22)%20AND%20WRD=(%22finding%20aid%22)%20)&adjacent=1) 











    **Digital Highlights** 











    











  [Googlebooks: *Essays* (J. Munroe & Co., 1841)](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:002573125)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection. 











    











  [Googlebooks: *Poems* (J. Munroe & Co., 1847)](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:002978594)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection. 











    











  [Googlebooks: *Nature: Addresses and Lectures* (J. Munroe & Co., 1849)](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:001984313)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection. 











  



 





    Sort   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 











    











  [*The Harvard Gazette*: "Emerson Impression Remains Clear at Harvard"](http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/0304/02-emerson.html) (April 1, 2003) 











    











  [The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute](http://www.rwe.org/) 











    











  [The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society](https://emersonsociety.org/)