Volume 2 includes a detailed chronology of the events in Emerson's life during the months between July 1829 and October 1830. Explanatory footnotes, textual endnotes, and a comprehensive index further add to this significant contribution to our understanding of one of America's foremost thinkers.

About the editors

Teresa Toulouse is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University.  She is the author of The Art of Prophesying:  New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief and recipient of the Richard Beale Davis Prize for her essays on early American literature published in Early American Literature.

Andrew Delbanco is Professor of English at Columbia University.  He is the author of The Puritan Ordeal and co-editor of The American Puritans:  A Narrative Anthology.