Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, F

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[v] Contents Photographs follow page  Introduction ix Chronology xxxiii Amos Bronson Alcott, [A Visit to Emerson at Concord in  ]  Convers Francis, [Remarks on Emerson in , 

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]  Ellis Gray Loring, [A Visit from Emerson in ]  [Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the s]  Richard Frederick Fuller, “The Younger Generation in  from the Diary of a New England Boy”  [Margaret Fuller], [At Concord with the Emersons in ]  Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle, [A Visit from Emerson in  ]  Anonymous, “Emerson as a Lecturer” ()  Herman Melville, [Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck about Emerson as a Lecturer] () 
Fredrika Bremer, From The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America (
)  [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], “Mr. Emerson’s Lectures” ( )  [George William Curtis], [Emerson as Seen from the “Editor’s Easy Chair” in 
]  Anonymous, “Ralph Waldo Emerson” (
)  James Russell Lowell, From My Study Windows ( )
 emerson in his own time Bronson Alcott, “Fuller, Thoreau, Emerson. . . . The Substance of a ‘Conversation’” ( )
 Anna Alcott Pratt, Louisa May Alcott, and Ellen Tucker Emerson, [“House burned, Wednesday,  July ( )”]  Anonymous, “Emerson: A Literary Interview” ( )  Octavius Brooks Frothingham, From Transcendentalism in New England: A History ( )  Walt Whitman, From Prose Works
 (–)  Ellen Tucker Emerson, [Emerson’s Death] ()  Louisa May Alcott, “Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson” ()  Frederic Henry Hedge, [Reminiscences of Emerson] () 
[Edwin Percy Whipple], “Some Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson” ()  Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney, From Concord Lectures on Philosophy . . . at the Concord School of Philosophy in
  A. B. Muzzey, From Reminiscences and Memorials of the Men of the Revolution and Their Families ()  Oliver Wendell Holmes, From Ralph Waldo Emerson ()  Pendleton King, “Notes of Conversations with Emerson” ()  [Annie Adams Fields], “Glimpses of Emerson” ()  Frank Bellew, “Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson” ()  E. P. Peabody, “Emerson as Preacher” (
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 Edward Waldo Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson, and Edith Emerson Forbes, [Emerson as Remembered by His Children] ( and  , , ) 
Charles J. Woodbury, From Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson ()   Francis Espinasse, From Literary Recollections and Sketches ()   William Henry Furness, “Random Reminiscences of Emerson” ()  [vi] W. J. Stillman, “The Philosophers’ Camp. Emerson, Agassiz, Lowell, and Others in the Adirondacks” ()  William Dean Howells, “My First Visit to New England” () 
Frank Preston Stearns, From Sketches from Concord and Appledore (
)  Rebecca Harding Davis, “A Little Gossip” ()  John Muir, [Emerson in the Yosemite Valley] ()  William James and Caroline Hazard, From The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson ()  Julian Hawthorne, “Personal Glimpses of Emerson” ()  Moncure D. Conway, “Emerson: The Teacher and the Man” ()  Daniel Chester French, “A Sculptor’s Reminiscences of Emerson” ( )  Robert Underwood Johnson, From Remembered Yesterdays ()  Kate Douglas Wiggin, From My Garden of Memory: An Autobiography ()  Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “Recollections of Emerson, His Household and Friends” ()  Index 

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