The present volume...reproduces and annotates the contents of nine of Emerson's early notebooks...a fitting member of an already impressive company...it is first rate editing and an achievement to be proud of.
   --Modern Language Review

Ralph H. Orth is Professor of English at the University of Vermont.

Read More by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V, English Traits
• Representative Men: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol IV
• The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, 1833-1836
• The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III, 1838-1842
• The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, 1836-1838
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII, 1841-1843
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume X, 1847-1848
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIII, 1852-1855
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIV, 1854-1861
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV, 1860-1866
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XVI, 1866-1882
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III, Essays: Second Series
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV, Representative Men
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V, 1835-1838
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI, The Conduct of Life
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, Essays: First Series
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, 1822-1826
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, 1819-1822
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III, 1826-1832
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV, 1832-1834
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IX, 1843-1847
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XI, 1848-1851
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII, 1835-1862
• Emerson in His Journals
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, Society and Solitude
• The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII, Letters and Social Aims

Read More by Ralph H. Orth:

• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIII, 1852-1855
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IX, 1843-1847