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In this letter, Emerson makes arrangements to lecture in upstate New York. Emerson lectured on �American Slavery� in Rochester on 21 February 1855 and in Syracuse on 25 February 1855. Abel Carter Wilder, a native of Massachusetts who relocated to Rochester and ran a mercantile business, was an abolitionist, congressman, and Mayor of Rochester, NY. Emerson�s remembered whimsy about not going to Rochester may be related to his half-humorous quip about Wilder and the founding of the University of Rochester in his lecture �The Anglo-American�.

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