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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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He suggested I look into Ralph Waldo Emerson, a supposedly famous old poet.†
p. 46.9 *
I quickly discovered that Ralph Waldo Emerson had indeed written lots of letters that had been published.†
p. 47.1
For about three minutes I got really excited, like I was close to a breakthrough, and then two things became apparent: first, that Ralph Waldo Emerson had lived and died in the 1800s and therefore could not have written any letters dated September third, 1940, and, second, that his writing was so dense and arcane that it couldn't possibly have held the slightest interest for my grandfather, who wasn't exactly an avid reader.†
p. 47.1
It was The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.†
p. 59.5
THE SELECTED WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON†
p. 60.2

Definitions:

(1) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
influential U.S. writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (emphasizing each person's ability to transcend the material world) (1803-1882)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)