1775/04/19 |
Phebe Emerson and her children watch the fighting at the Old North Bridge froman upper window of the Manse. |
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Old Manse |
Concord, MA |
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Battles of Lexington and Concord |
1832/07/14 |
Here, among the mountains, the pinions of thought should be strong, and one should see the errors of men from a calmer height of love and wisdom. - RWE |
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Crawford Notch |
New Hampshire |
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1833/07/13 |
Ralph W Emerson visits the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The trip will inspire a set of lectures he will deliver in Boston. |
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Nature (Emerson essay) |
Jardin des plantes and Museum national d'histoire naturelle |
Paris |
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1834/00/00 |
Ralph W Emerson makes his home at the Old Manse during which year he works on a long essay "Nature". |
Home |
Nature (Emerson essay) |
Old Manse |
Concord, MA |
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1835/07/00 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson buys a large house with barn on two acres in Concord, praising it to be "the only good cellar that had been built in Concord." |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson House |
Concord, MA |
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1835/09/14 |
Lydia Jackson, daughter of Charles Jackson and Lucy Cotton Jackson, marries Ralph Waldo Emerson at the bride's family home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
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Mayflower House Museum |
Plymouth, MA |
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1836/00/00 |
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is published by James Munroe and Company. |
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Nature (Emerson essay) |
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1837/08/31 |
Ralph W Emerson gives an oration on "The American Scholar" to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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The American Scholar (Emerson speech) |
First Parish in Cambridge |
Cambridge, MA |
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1840/07/00 |
Ralph W Emerson loans Elizabeth Peabody books for her circulating library. |
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Peabody Residence and Book Room |
Boston |
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1840/07/00 |
Its first issue The Dial is published with an introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson calling it a "Journal in a new spirit". |
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1840/11/09 |
George Ripley writes RWE about Brook Farm: My Dear Sir - I wish to submit the plan more distinctly to your judgment, that you may decide whether it is one that can have the benefit of your aid and cooperation. |
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Brook Farm Historic Site, Boston |
Boston |
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1843/00/00 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson tutors Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in Greek. |
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1845/00/00 |
Emerson allows Henry David Thoreau to live on his property on Walden Pond |
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Walden Pond |
Concord, MA |
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1845/10/10 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson pays Thoreau $5 for building a fence in Concord, Mass. |
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1846/06/00 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's visit to Mount Monadnock inspires him to write the poem, "Monadnoc". |
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Monadnoc (poem) |
Mount Monadnock |
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1846/06/28 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson reads "Monadnoc" to Amos Bronson Alcott. |
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Monadnoc (poem) |
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1847/00/00 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, "Monadnoc", is published in "Poems". |
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Monadnoc (poem) |
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1850/00/00 |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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1852/03/08 |
R W Emerson sells 8 acres of land south of the Country Road to Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
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The Wayside |
Concord, MA |
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1864/05/23 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
Concord, MA |
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Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1864/11/16 |
if you can it practicable for me to reach Oberlin on the following evening (21 January) in proper time, and if that date is open and agreeable to you, I shall be ready to come to you then, otherwise will the 23d serve you? Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Congregational Church of Christ |
Oberlin |
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1865/04/30 |
Ralph W Emerson affirms in writing his membership at First Parish Concord (lost). |
Faith |
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First Parish in Concord |
Concord, MA |
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1867/11/21 |
Henry W Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson, Oliver W Holmes and Louis Agassiz dine with Charles Dickens. |
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Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America |
1876/07/00 |
As copper is removed from the roof of Old South Meetinghouse, a group of 20 Boston women organize to buy the building and enlist Ralph W Emerson, Julia W Howe, Henry W Longfellow, Louisa M Alcott and Wendell Phillips to rally people to pledge funds. |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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1878/03/30 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers a lecture at the Old South Church. It was published as "Fortune of the republic" in 1880. |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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1882/04/27 |
Suffering from pneumonia, Ralph Waldo Emerson dies at home in Concord, Massachusetts. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson House |
Concord, MA |
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1882/04/30 |
Samuel Moody Haskins, Emerson's cousin, conducts the Episcopal burial service for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's grandchildren and Concord schoolchildren drop flowers and greenery into the grave. |
In Memoriam |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
Concord, MA |
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