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. CONTENTS PAGE An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity Col- lege, Cambridge, July 15, 1838. An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838. An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adel- phi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841. A Lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841. Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December |
