A collection of 16 ALS, being received correspondence from various New England thinkers and educators

by George Barrell Emerson

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Approximately 29 pp. Various sizes. Old folds; overall condition fine. Item #314884 A collection of letters written to George Barrell Emerson 1797-1881 , pioneer of girls' education and cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson graduated from Harvard in 1817, and served as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy there from 1819 to 1821. He left that post in 1821 to become the first principal of the first public high school in the United States,

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