Editing Emerson's Natural History of Intellect

“Editing Emerson's Natural History of Intellect” will be the first reliable scholarly edition of Natural History of Intellect, the last lecture series by Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet (1803-82). The seed grant will support the application for a Houghton Library Fellowship, which will supply funding for a one-month residence at the Houghton, where the 884-page manuscript resides. The project is under contract for publication with Oxford University Press.