This Autographed 4.75x7.5 Handwritten Poem Excerpt Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dated June 19, 1884 has been Personally Signed by John G. Whittier. This item is 100% Authentic, it comes slabbed and authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website. An autograph quotation signed by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), the Quaker poet and abolitionist, as "John G. Whittier" at lower right. Written at a place possibly called the "Tremont Club" (?) on June 19, 1884. Whittier praised his friend and fellow writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) in Section XIV of his poem "The Last Walk in Autumn," an excerpt from his poetry collection "Poems of Nature," published in 1886.In full, with unchanged spelling and punctuation:"EmersonHe who might Plato���s banquet graceHave I not seen before me sit,And watched his Puritanic face,With more than Eastern wisdom lit.Shrewd mystic, who, upon the backOf his Poor Richard���s Almanac,Writing the Sufi���s song, the Gentoo���s dream,Links Menu���s age of thought to Fulton���s age of steam!John G. WhittierTremont Club (?)6th Mo. 19 1884 -."