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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

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Dispatch 18

. ~35 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

• ~38 Resistance to Civil Government