Just minutes away from the Orchard House is the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the mid-19th-century Transcendentialist writer who lived and wrote in this very location. Emerson lived here in Concord from 1835 until his death in 1882 and penned most of his works here, including "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar." Frequent house guests included Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau, and the house served as the meeting place for the Transcendental Club.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
