Transcripts of letters by Ellen Tucker Emerson
Overview
Typescript transcripts of letters from Ellen Tucker Emerson to family and friends.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
1.75 linear feet (2 boxes)Collection of 16 binders of typescript transcripts of letters by Ellen Tucker Emerson to family and friends; it is unclear when they were made and by whom. Many volumes bear notes indicating this series was the "4th copy".
The donor notes that the content of many of these transcripts is not present in Edith Emerson Webster Gregg's edition of the letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson.
Biographical / Historical
Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) was the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian (Jackson) Emerson. She was a life-long Concord (Mass.) resident and active in the community. She looked after her aging parents, traveled to Britain, Europe, and Egypt with her father, and assisted James Elliot Cabot in editing her father's manuscripts. She also wrote a biography of her mother, The life of Lidian Jackson Emerson.
Arrangement
Finding aid is arranged chronologically.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2019M-108. Gift of Beatrice Manz, 2019 June.
Processing Information
Processed by Melanie Wisner, 2019 June.
Subject
- Gregg, Edith Emerson Webster -- The letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson (Editor, Person)
- Title
- Emerson, Ellen Tucker. Transcripts of letters by Ellen Tucker Emerson (MS Am 3315): Guide
- Status
- in_progress
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 June 7
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03205
Repository Details
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