Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1863

I find Walden entirely open, and I have failed to know on what day; probably on Saturday, nth, and Sunday, 12th.

This running into the Catholic Church is disgusting, just when one is looking amiably round at the culture and performance of the young people, and fancying that…

On Friday morning. May ist, at 3 o'clock, died Mary Moody Emerson, at Williamsburg, New York, aged 88 years, 8 months. Hannah Haskins Parsons, her niece, who has,…

Sam Ward thought the new generation bet- ter than the last. We have had peace and its disablings; you will have the excitement and training of war. The mischief is…

My feeling about Henry James's book is that he is a certain Saul among the prophets. The logical basis of his book a certain pure and absolute theism : — there is…