Familiar Letters

Table of Contents

• Title Page (PDF)
• Introduction (PDF)

• I. YEARS OF DISCIPLINE  (PDF)
  • Sketch of Thoreau's Life from Birth to Twenty Years
  • Letters to his Brother John and Sister Helen
  • Early Friendship and Correspondence with Emerson and His Family
  • Staten Island and New York Letters to the Thoreaus and Emersons

• II. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACHIEVEMENT  (PDF)
  • Correspondence with C. Lane, J. E. Cabot, Emerson, and Blake

• III. FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS  (PDF)
  • The Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller
  • An Essay on Love and Chastity
  • Moral Epistles to Harrison Blake of Worcester
  • Acquaintance and Correspondence with Daniel Ricketson of New Bedford
  • Excursions to Cape Cod, New Bedford, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey
  • Excursions to Monadnock and Minnesota
  • Last Illness and Death

• Appendix: Letters to Isaac Hecker and Calvin H. Greene  (PDF)