ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

NOTES ON THE PRESENT TEXT

Symbols Used To Identify Manuscripts

Symbols Used To Indentify Publication

LETTERS

1."...the Hens lay finely..."

Letters 1-14 [1842-1846]

2. "I am really at Mt Holyoke..."

Letters 15-26 [1847-1848]

3. "Amherst is alive with fun this winter"

Letters 27-39 [1849-1850]

4. "...we do not have much poetry, father having made up his mind that its pretty much all real life."

Letters 40-176 [1851-1854]

5. "To live, and die, and mount again in triumphant body... is no schoolboy's theme!"

Letters 177-186 [1855-1857]

6. "Much has occurred...so much that I stagger as I write, in its sharp remembrance."

Letters 187-245 [1858-1861]

7. "Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that My Business is Circumference."

Letters 246-313 [1862-1861]

8. "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."

Letters 314-337 [1866-1869]

9. "I find ecstasy in living--the mere sense of living is joy enough."

Letters 338-431 [1870-1874]

10. "Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--a House that tries to be haunted."

Letters 432-626 [1875-1879]

11. "I hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and each must be the chiefest..."

Letters 627-878 [1880-1883]

12. "...a Letter is a joy of Earth--it is denied the Gods."

Letters 879-1045 [1884-1886]

PROSE FRAGMENTS

APPENDIXES

1. Biographical Sketches of Recipients of Letters and of Persons Mentioned in Them

2. A Note on the Domestic Help

3. Recipients of Letters

INDEX

INDEX OF POEMS