ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page, 3.5 x 5.25, May 29, 1873. Letter to Fields. In full: “Judge Kent is my old classmate so you must excuse me that I have told him that he must be my guest & not yours on Saturday at the Club.” In fine condition. Edward Kent graduated from Harvard with Emerson in 1821 and went on to a distinguished public career, serving as governor of Maine, US consul to Rio de Janeiro, and as an associate justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. This letter is presumably to James Thomas Fields of the publisher Ticknor and Fields, and refers to the Saturday Club, an informal monthly meeting of cultural luminaries of the day. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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