Myers Literary Guide:
The North-East
 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803 - 1882)

Emerson visited Barnard Castle and Newcastle on his tour of England in February 1847. He lectured on 'Aristocracy' and 'The National Characteristics of the Six Northern States of America'. Emerson said that only to have talked with George Stephenson made crossing the Atlantic worth while.

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