Bradley

1884 · BOOKS239026 — Boston MA: Little Brown and Company. G/FR. 1884. First Edition. Wraps. Original plain wrappers and printed jacket. James Bradley Thayer 1831-1902 was a Boston attorney legal scholar and professor at Harvard University. He had business dealings with Emerson and was one of a party of twelve who with Emerson went in a private Pullman car from Boston to California and travelled there for several weeks in 1871. Thayer wrote a number of diary-like letters to his wife while on the trip which later formed the basis for this account. This book also contains the letter that Thayer had written to the Boston 'Daily Advertiser' in which he attempts to clarify the response to a recent 1883 Boston lecture on Emerson given by Matthew Arnold. BAL p.68 . 16mo. 141pp. Wraps fragil yellowed stained and frayed with torn & chipped spine pulled away from text at front hinge still attached at rear; cracked with edge tears and waterstained & yellowed margins small booksellers label W. B. Clarke & Carruth Boston . Little, Brown and Company paperback