Antebellum Literary Address Trivia

Digging deep into my stock of photographs.  What's the building at right and what famous pre-Civil War literary address was given there?  (Not the best job of cropping the photo either, huh?)

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[Michelle Meyer]

Trying to redeem myself from the Buck v. Bell trivia question (and really, I suppose I should be ashamed not to get this one): First Parish in Cambridge, MA (Unitarian Universalist), location of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar" Phi Beta Kappa address.

Al, return trivia question for you: what's the link between Buck v. Bell and this trivia question?

[Alfred Brophy]

You're very, very good with this, Michelle. Exactly correct all around.

Thanks for asking about what I'm posting.... What's the connection between the Emerson trivia and the Buck v. Bell? None, actually. The Buck question I'd been sitting on for a while -- I'd been waiting for a good time to use it and when Dan Ernst posted about Victoria Nourse's new paper, I thought that would be a good excuse.

This Emerson one I've also been sitting on for a while, though I think it was inspired because I've been working on pre-Civil War legal thought a bunch these days. My primary interest is in the ideas of Southerners, not Northerners, but Emerson is a foil for a lot of them.

This week coming up I hope to be back to southern trivia questions. Though I've also got some posts on law review citations.

[Michelle Meyer]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Actually I meant to turn the tables and ask you a trivia question about your two most recent trivia questions. The link I had in mind between Buck v. Bell and The American Scholar is that Holmes referred to the latter as America's Intellectual Declaration of Independence.

Looking forward to your southern trivia questions, though unless they happen upon Charlottesville, I think I'll quit while I'm ahead and let the real trivia buffs at 'em.

[Alfred Brophy]

Oh, I get it! Nice. I didn't know that about Holmes on Emerson.