Kristina West, University of Reading Waldo was Emerson’s first-born child and just five years old when he died of scarlet fever on 28 January 1842. His father wrote in his journal: “Yesterday night at 15 minutes after eight my little Waldo ended his life” (47). Many other journal entries and letters attest to Emerson’s grief … Continue reading ‘I seem to have lost a beautiful estate’: Childhood and property in Emerson’s ‘Experience’