Key for Textual Notes to
he Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871
Edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson

Bosco and Myerson have prepared these Textual Notes for the two volumes of The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, vol. 1: 1843-1854, and vol. 2: 1855-1871, ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001).  Their introductory essay provides readers with a full account of their editing of the manuscript sources of Emerson’s later lectures as well as with a description of the kinds of information they included in these Textual Notes and the format they followed in creating them.

Volume I, 1843–1854

• Contents, Volume I: 1843–1854 and Foreword, “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871: The Texts of Emerson’s Later Lectures”  HTML

• New England, Lecture I, “The Genius and National Character of the Anglo-Saxon Race,” 10 January 1843, (1843–1844)HTML

• New England, Lecture II, “The Trade of New England,” 17 January 1843, (1843–1844)HTML

• New England, Lecture III, “New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs,” 28 January 1843, (1843–1844)HTML

• New England, Lecture IV, “New England: Recent Literary and Spiritual Influences,” 30 January 1843, (1843–1844) HTML

• “Address to the Temperance Society at Harvard, Massachusetts, 4 July 1843” HTML

• “Discourse Read Before the Philomathesian Society of Middlebury College in Vermont, 22 July 1845” and “Discourse Read Before the Philorhetorian and Peithologian Societies of Wesleyan College in Connecticut, 6 August 1845” HTML

• “The Spirit of the Times,” 15 February 1848, (1848–1856) HTML

• Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Lecture I, “The Powers and Laws of Thought,” 6 June 1848, (1848–1850) HTML

• Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Lecture II, “The Relation of Intellect to Natural Science,” 8 June 1848, (1848–1850) HTML

• Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Lecture III, “The Tendencies and Duties of Men of Thought,” 10 June 1848, (1848–1850)   HTML

• “England,” 5 December 1848, (1848–1852) HTML

• “London,” 3 January 1849 HTML

• Conduct of Life, “Wealth,” 25 March 1851, (1851–1854)   HTML

• Conduct of Life, “Economy,” 27 March 1851, (1851–1854)   HTML

• Conduct of Life, “Fate,” 22 December 1851, (1851–1853)   HTML

• “Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law, 3 May 1851” HTML

• “The Anglo-American,” 7 December 1852, (1852–1855) HTML

• “Poetry and English Poetry  10 January 1854” HTML

• “France, or Urbanity,” 17 January 1854, (1854–1856)  HTML

• “Seventh of March Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law,” 7 March 1854   HTML

• “An Address to the Adelphic Union of Williamstown College, 15 August 1854,” and “An Address to the Social Union of Amherst College, 8 August 1855,” (1854–1857)  HTML

Volume II, 1855–1871

• “American Slavery,” 25 January 1855  HTML

• “Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention, 20 September 1855”   HTML

• “Address to the Inhabitants of Concord, at the Consecration of Sleepy Hollow, 29 September 1855” HTML

• “Country Life (Concord)  2 December 1857”  HTML

• Natural Method of Mental Philosophy, Lecture I, “Country Life,” 1 March 1858, (1858–1867)  HTML

• Natural Method of Mental Philosophy, Lecture III, “Powers of the Mind,” 17 March 1858  HTML

• Natural Method of Mental Philosophy, Lecture IV, “The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy,” 24 March 1858  HTML

• Natural Method of Mental Philosophy, Lecture V, “Memory,” 31 March 1858, (1858–1871)  HTML

• Natural Method of Mental Philosophy, Lecture VI, “Self-Possession,” 7 April 1858   HTML

• “Morals,” 26 April 1859 HTML

• “Moral Sense  18 March 1860”  HTML

• “Reform  4 November 1860”  HTML

• “Classes of Men,” 20 November 1860, (1860–1870)   HTML

• “Natural Religion,” 3 February 1861, (1861–1869)  HTML

• Life and Literature, Lecture I, “Genius and Temperament  9 April 1861” HTML

• Life and Literature, Lecture II, “Art,” 17 April 1861, (1861–1869)  HTML

• Life and Literature, Lecture IV, “Some Good Books,” 1 May 1861  HTML

• “Celebration of Intellect: An Address at Tufts College, 10 July 1861”   HTML

• “Truth,” 27 October 1861, (1861–1867)   HTML

• “Essential Principles of Religion  16 March 1862”   HTML

• “Moral Forces: Read on a Fast Day Appointed by the President of the United States  13 April 1862” HTML

• “Perpetual Forces,” 18 November 1862, (1862–1863)   HTML

• “The Scholar”: “An Address before the United Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, on 22 July 1863,” and “An Address before the Erosophian Society of Waterville College, Maine, on 11 August 1863” HTML

• “Fortune of the Republic,” 1 December 1863, (1863–1864) HTML

• “Resources,” 11 December 1864, (1864–1871) HTML

• “Table Talk,” 18 December 1864, (1864–1866)  HTML

• “The Rule of Life,”  12 May 1867, (1867–1871) HTML

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