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The year 2003 marks the bicentenary of the birth of American Transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), and USC's Thomas Cooper Library is marking the event with a major exhibition on Emerson's life and work.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentary Exhibition from the Joel Myerson Collection of 19th Century American Literature will be on display from April through June in the Mezzanine exhibit area of the library.
Curated by Prof. Joel Myerson, Carolina Professor of English at USC and a leading Emerson scholar, the exhibition includes letters, manuscripts, and rare early pamphlets, as well as many of the author's published books. A highpoint of the exhibition will be corrected proofsheets for Emerson's famous essay, "The American Scholar" (1837) which is often called the "Declaration of American Intellectual Independence." The materials on display are drawn both from the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century Literature and from additional Emerson manuscripts and memorabilia that Myerson has collected
Myerson is also involved with concurrent Emerson exhibitions at Harvard, Emerson's college, and at the Concord (Massachusetts) Public Library in Emerson's home town.
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