tution THE WRITINGS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES VOLUME XL COPYRIGHT IS S AMD 1884 BY OLIVXR WENDELL HOLMES COPYRIGHT 1892 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN fc CO. COPYRIGHT 1906 BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMBS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RALPH WALDO EME SON JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY TWO MEMOIRS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTOJUflJSfiUlkCOMPANY Cfce BitJEtfiiBe J9tejSji Cambribge CONTENTS. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PAQB INTRODUCTION 1 I. 1803-1823. To Ml. 20 29 Birthplace. Boyhood. College Life. II. 1823-1828. JET. 20-25 37 Extract from a Letter to a Classmate. School-Teaching. Study of Divinity. Approbated to Preach. Visit to the South. Preaching in Various Places. HE. 1828-1833. Mi. 25 30 42 Settled as Colleague of Rev. Henry Ware. Mar ried to Ellen Louisa Tucker. Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. H. B. Goodwin. His Pas toral and Other Labors. Emerson and Father Taylor. Death of Mrs. Emerson. Differ ence of Opinion with some of his Parishioners. Sermon explaining his Views. Resignation of his Pastorate. IV. 1833-1838. Mi. 30-35 47 1. Visit to Europe. On his Return preaches in Different Places. Emerson in the Pulpit. At Newton. Fixes his Residence at Concord. The Old Manse. Lectures in Boston. Lec tures on Michael Angelo and on Milton pub lished in The North American Review. Be ginning of the Correspondence with Carlyle. Letters to the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. Republication of Sartor Resartus. i CONTENTS. 2. Emersons Second Marriage. His New Res idence in Concord. Historical Address. Course of Ten Lectures on English Literature delivered in Boston. The Concord Battle Hymn. Preaching in Concord and East Lex ington. Accounts of his Preaching by Several Hearers. A Course of Lectures on theNature and Ends of History. Address on War. Death of Edward Bliss Emerson. Death of Charles Chauncy Emerson. 3. Publication of Nature. Outline of this Essay. Its Keception. Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society. V. 1838-1843. 2Ex. 35-40 89 1. Divinity School Address. Correspondence. Lectures on Human Life. Letters to James Freeman Clarke. Dartmouth College Ad dress Literary Ethics. Waterville College Address The Method of Nature. Other Ad dresses Man the Reformer. Lecture on the Times. The Conservative. The Transcen dentalist. Boston Transcendentalism. The Dial. Brook Farm. 2. First Series of Essays published. Contents History, Self-R, elianee, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, - The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, Art. Emer sons Account of his Mode of Life in a Letter to Carlyle. Death of Emersons Son. Thren ody. VI 1843-1848. Br. 40-45 137 The Young American. Address on the Anni versary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. Publication of the Second Series of Essays. Contents The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Bealist, New England Keformers. Publication of Poems. Second Visit to England. CONTENTS. Vll VIL 1848-1853 JE T . 45-50 149 The Massachusetts Quarterly Review. Visit to Europe. England. Scotland. France. Representative Men published. I. Uses of Great Men. II. Plato or, The Philosopher Plato New Readings. HI. Swedenborg or, The Mystic. IV. Montaigne or, The Skeptic. V. Shakespeare or, The Poet. VI. Napoleon or, The Man of the World. VII. Goethe or, the Writer. Contribution to the Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. HI. 1853-1858. JET. 50-55 162 Lectures in various Places.Anti-Slavery Ad dresses. Woman. A Lecture read before the Womans Rights Convention. Samuel Hoar. Speech at Concord. Publication of English Traits. The Atlantic Monthly. The Saturday Club. IX 1858-1863. Mf. 55-60 173 Essay on Persian Poetry. Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival. Letter from Emerson to a Lady. Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau. Address on the Emancipation Proc lamation. Publication of The Conduct of Life. Contents Fate, Power, Wealth, Cul ture, Behavior, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions. X 1863-1868. 2Err…