Emerson in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates /

Other Authors: Bosco, Ronald A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Amos Bronson Alcott, [A Visit to Emerson at Concord in 1837]
  • Convers Francis, [Remarks on Emerson in 1838, 1855, and 1858]
  • Ellis Gray Loring, [A Visit from Emerson in 1838]
  • [Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s]
  • Richard Frederick Fuller, "The Younger Generation in 1840 from the Diary of a New England Boy"
  • [Margaret Fuller], [At Concord with the Emersons in 1842]
  • Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle, [A Visit from Emerson in 1847]
  • Anonymous, "Emerson as a Lecturer"
  • Herman Melville, [Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck about Emerson as a Lecturer] (1853)
  • [Frederika Bremer, from The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America (1853)
  • [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], "Mr. Emerson's Lectures" (1864)
  • [George William Curtis], [Emerson as Seen from the "Editor's Easy Chair" in 1853]
  • Anonymous, "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1865)
  • James Russell Lowell, from My Study Windows (1871)
  • Bronson Alcott, "Fuller, Thoreau, Emerson ... The Substance of a 'Conversation'" (1871)
  • Anna Alcott Pratt, Louisa May Alcott, and Ellen Tucker Emerson, ["House burned, Wednesday, 24 July (1872)"]
  • Anonymous, "Emerson: A Literary Interview" (1874)
  • Octavius Brooks Frothingham, from Transcendentalism in New England: A History (1876)
  • Walt Whitman, from Prose Works 1892 (1881-1882)
  • Ellen Tucker Emerson, [Emerson's Death] (1882)
  • Louisa May Alcott, "Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1882)
  • Frederic Henry Hedge, [Reminiscences of Emerson] (1882)
  • [Edwin Percy Whipple], "Some Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1882)
  • Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney, from Concord Lectures in Philosophy ... at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1882.
  • A.B. Muzzey, from Reminiscences and Memorials of the Men of the Revolution and Their Families (1883)
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884)
  • Pendleton King, "Notes of Conversations with Emerson" (1884)
  • [Annie Adams Fields], "Glimpses of Emerson" (1884)
  • Frank Bellew, "Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1884)
  • E.P. Peabody, "Emerson as Preacher" (1885)
  • Edward Waldo Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson, and Edith Emerson Forbes, [Emerson as Remembered by His Children] (1889 and 1897, 1902, 1921)
  • Charles J. Woodbury, from Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1890)
  • Francis Espinasse, from Literary Recollections and Sketches (1893)
  • William Henry Furness, "Random Reminiscences of Emerson" (1893)
  • W.J. Stillman, "The Philosophers' Camp. Emerson, Agassiz, Lowell, and Others in the Adirondacks" (1893)
  • William Dean Howells, "My First Visit to New England" (1894)
  • Frank Preston Stearns, from Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895)
  • Rebecca Harding Davis, "A Little Gossip" (1900)
  • John Muir, [Emerson in the Yosemite Valley] (1901)
  • William James and Caroline Hazard, from The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)
  • Julian Hawthorne, "Personal Glimpses of Emerson" (1903)
  • Moncure D. Conway, "Emerson: The Teacher and the Man" (1903)
  • David Chester French, "A Sculptor's Reminiscences of Emerson" (1916)
  • Robert Underwood Johnson, from Remembered Yesterdays (1923)
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin, from My Garden of Memory: An Autobiography (1923)
  • Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "Recollections of Emerson, His Household and Friends" (1924).