Relic
- Object Name:
- Relic
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.19
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, MA
- Date:
- 1890-1900
- Description:
- Two pieces of dried grass, adhered to a paper card with four strips of tissue paper. Card inscribed in ink, "From / Ralph Waldo Emerson's grave / Sleepy Hollow, Concord, Mass." Inscribed on reverse, "From the grave of / Ralph Waldo Emerson".
- Material:
- Grass
- Dimensions:
- L-3 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
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