[Literature] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. (1803 - 1882). Autograph Quotation and CDV Photograph. Fine autograph signed quotation from the American poet, author and philosopher whose central role in the Transcendentalist movement earned him a place among the most influential figures in 19th-century literature and thought. His two collections of Essays, which encompass such wide-ranging topics as “Love,” “Self-Reliance,” “Experience,” “Nature,” and “Politics,” remain a fixture of the Western canon.

Autograph signed quotation from his "Quatrains and Fragments," being number 46, "Heri, Cras Hodie," penned on a small oblong sheet. In full: "Future or Past no richer secret folds, O friendless Present! then thy bosom holds. R. Waldo Emerson." Mounting traces to verso, overall fine condition. Sold together with an original 1876 CDV portrait photograph issued by G. K. Warren Portraits studio of Boston, Massachusetts.