Ralph & Ellen Emerson

Some stones carry more than color. They carry time.

This pair of richly patterned raw jasper — likely Polychrome or Desert Jasper, with their sweeping fields of red, ochre, olive, teal, and cream — feels like it belongs to a love story. And it does.

In December of 1827, Ralph Waldo Emerson was preaching in Concord, New Hampshire when he met Ellen Louisa Tucker. She was seventeen, the daughter of a Boston merchant, and by all accounts, genuinely beautiful — the kind of person people remembered long after she left a room. Emerson was taken with her. He was young, brilliant, and apparently not immune to a lovely face. They married on September 30, 1829.

She died on February 8, 1831 of tuberculosis — referred to as "consumption" in her time — at just nineteen years old.

He mourned her deeply and for a long time. She had also written poetry — graceful verse, those who read it said — though only two of her poems were ever published.

Emerson would later meet and marry Lydia Jackson of America's Hometown, Plymouth, Massachusetts.   

Two stones. 

Raw and natural — never tumbled, never treated. Exactly as the earth made them.

Pair weight: 0.3 lbs
Sold as a set of two.