Will not Higginson see the matter in a practical light? I respect him so much, and honor his principles so supremely, that I am pained to di...

I have seemed more prompt to censure wrong      Than praise the right, if seldom to thine ear      My voice hath mingled with the exultant c...

[January 24, 1850.] DEAR HENRY, Whittier is here on a short visit. I go to-night with Miss Bremer to hear Wendell Phillips, and to-morrow ev...

Worcester , June, 1862 Mrs. Howell, of Philadelphia, a most attractive woman whom I met last year, is there [Princeton] already. She wr...

Dear Friend: I send the “Letter to a Young Contributor,” which will cover nine or ten pages. I am sorry to say that this household u...

[September 13, 1861.] Dr. Friend: Owing to absence from home, I did not see thy letter until last evening. It would have given me...

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...

Mr. Emerson is bounteous and gracious, but thin, dry, angular, in intercourse as in person. Garrison is the only solid moral reality I have...

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

Worcester, June, 1859 I got home from Pennsylvania on Friday morning. Whittier was in the same region a month before me and he said, “G...

Amesbury , 29th, 12 mo. 53. My Dear Fr'd, — A thousand thanks for thy volume! I rec'd it some days ago, but was too ill to re...

Columbus, Nov. 23, 1860. My Dear Friend: I missed no gloves, but presume those left at friend Sparhawk's were mine. I am gratifie...