Emerson’s brother Charles described it in letters to his aunt:Įllen is still with us, though her spirit seems winged for its flights. Peace and JoyĪs Ellen grew sicker, a round-the-clock watch proceeded. She bore up under her illness with remarkable good nature, Emerson noted, and he found her a delightful companion. Shortly after their wedding, she had a bad spell, but the couple decided to move to Boston anyway so that Emerson’s mother could help with her care.īy the winter of 1830/31, Ellen became convinced she was not going to live much longer. Emerson had accepted the offer to become a minister at the Second Church of Boston at a handsome salary of $1,800 per year.Įmerson suffered with tuberculosis, and so did Ellen. Shortly after their wedding, the couple moved to Boston. They had an affectionate marriage, and initially full of hope for a future. Will my Father in Heaven regard us with kindness, and as he hath, as we trust, made us for each other, will he be pleased to strengthen and purify and prosper and eternize our affection.” “I have now been four days engaged to Ellen Louisa Tucker. “Oh, Ellen, I do dearly love you,” he would note in his journals. They met when we was 24 and married when he was 26. And though he thought he had passed the point in life where he would fall in love, he did fall deeply in love with Ellen Louisa Tucker. Emerson was a young minister when he met Tucker, preaching at Concord, N.H., as a visiting pastor.
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