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1560 The Cultures of New England




1561 Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)  1563 The Suttee


1565 Death of an Infant  1565 The Father


1571 The Indian's Welcome to tire Pilgrim Fathers  1572 Indian Names


1574 Niagara


1575 To a Shred of Linen  1577 The Indian Summer


1578 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)  1582 Nature


1609 The American Scholar  1621 Self-Reliance


1638 The Poet


1653 Experience


1669 Concord Hymn


1669 The Rhodora


1670 The Snow-Storm


1671 Compensation


1672 Hamatreya


1674 Merlin


1677 Brahma


1678 Days


1678 Terminus


1679 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)  1681 The Hunters of Men


1683 The Farewell


1685 Massachusetts to Virginia  1688 At Port Royal


1692 Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)  :695 To [Sophia Ripley?]


:697 from Woman in the Nineteenth Century


l719 from American Literature: Its Position in the Present Time,  and Prospects for the Future


_ -26 from Things and Thoughts in Europe: Foreign Correspondence


of the Tribune


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Dispatch 17

: -31 
Dispatch 18

. ~35 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


~38 Resistance to Civil Government