Perhaps you expect a full account of last Saturday's “Atlantic” dinner; but really it was hardly worth it, except for Holmes, who was r...

July 10, 1859 Dearest Mother: Emerson says, “To-day is a king in disguise”; and it is sometimes odd to think that these men and women...

Peterboro , Nov. 23, 1846, Edmund Quincy , Esq., of Massachusetts: Dear Sir, — I have this evening, read your letter to me, in the la...

March, 1859 My lectures are over [for the season]. One of the last was at Dedham, and I stayed at Edmund Quincy's charming, English...