Source Material for 1835 speech

Source Material for 1835 speech

Town of Concord Bicentennial

The Concord Free Public Library holds typed transcripts of the many volumes of Emerson’s manuscript journals deposited in the Houghton Library at Harvard, among them Journal L (“Concord”), which contains Emerson’s notes from a variety of sources in preparing the 1835 discourse. The library also houses the original town records scoured by Emerson for information on the periods of Concord history treated in the address. Both are useful for scholars examining how Emerson adapted his source material in interpreting the town’s history.

All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Town of Concord

Concord Free Public Library