Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundi
Thoreau in 1856
Thoreau's birthplace, the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse in Concord, Massachusetts
Original title page of Walden, with an illustration from a drawing by Thoreau's sister Sophia
Reconstruction of the interior of Thoreau's cabin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Henry David Thoreau
…ill from tetanus in 1842 after cutting himself while shaving. He died in Henry's arms. Upon graduation Thoreau returned home to Concord, where he met Ralph Waldo Emerson through a mutual friend. Emerson, who was 14 years his senior, took a paternal and at times patron-like interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and…
Emerson c. 1857
Engraved drawing, 1878
Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward Waldo Emerson, c. 1850
Emerson in 1859