WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Gifts" (essay), in The Dial, Vol. IV, No. 1, pp. 93-95”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · July 1843

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“Gifts" is charming.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Hudspeth identified this is Emerson's "Gifts" (pp. 93-95), his essay on the philosophy of gift-giving, later reprinted in Essays: Second Series.