Choice AQS from Arthur Schlesinger, handwritten in black felt tip on an off-white 5.5 x 8.5 sheet of City University of New York (CUNY) letterhead, no date. Schlesinger quotes a portion of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous ‘The American Scholar’ speech, which he delivered in a commencement address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University on August 31, 1837. It reads: “‘If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.’” In very fine condition. Schlesinger remains uncommon in handwritten formats.
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