Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Paper Read Before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, December 14, 1883, With Afterthoughts
In an article lately published in a Boston journal, commemorating several names pertaining to "the transition period" signalized by the advent of the railroad power, (1830-34), the chronological point of distinction between Old and New Boston, mention was made of an introduction to the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, colleague of Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., in the ministry of the Second Unitarian Church; his relation to me as my nearest clerical neighbor being emphasized at the time, soon after my inauguration to the ministry of the First Baptist Church, then approaching the one hundred and sixty-sixth anniversary of its birth-year. The article thus put forth in Boston has suggested the invitation that brings before this Society, to-night, this paper with its theme set for the hour of our monthly gathering.
The introduction here noted having occurred in 1831, at the house of mutual friends, where Mr. Emerson"s participation in a funeral service indicated his parochial relation to a part of the bereaved family circle, rendered the occasion notable as the starting-point of a welcomed acquaintanceship. His manner was genially responsive, while his countenance, tone and bearing were suggestive, apart from all culture, of a rarely gifted nature.
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