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might be welcome, gathered from the journals, the correspondence, reminiscences, and works written about him. In supplying the notes I have had to rely on my own judgment. The pressure due to the late undertaking of the work has prevented my revising and condensing them. Remembering that notes seem to many readers an interruption and even an impertinence, they have been placed at the end of each volume. Repetitions occur, because a reader who wishes information cannot search all the volumes. The occurrence of the same thought or expression in the prose and poems has been pointed out.

I thankfully acknowledge the help of friends in finding the more unusual quotations. I also gratefully recognize the help received from the works of various writers about my father.

EDWARD WALDO EMERSON.

CONCORD, April 8th, 1903.

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An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.

AN ADDRESS

117

Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, July 15, 1838.

LITERARY ETHICS

153

An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies
of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.

189

THE METHOD OF NATURE

An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adel-
phi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11,
1841.

MAN THE REFORMER

A Lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices'
Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841.

225

LECTURE ON THE TIMES

257

Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December
2, 1841.

THE CONSERVATIVE

293

A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston,
December 9, 1841.

THE TRANSCENDENTALIST

A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston,

327

January, 1842.

THE YOUNG AMERICAN

A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Asso-
ciation, Boston, February 7, 1844.

361

NOTES

The portrait prefixed to this volume is from a da-
guerreotype taken in 1854, in the possession of the
Emerson family.

397

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

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