Author Description

A collection of 11 original essays on letters by Mary Moody Emerson and James Fenimore Cooper, journals by George and Martha Kuhn and Bronson Alcott, Hawthorne's moral theaters, Thoreau's translation of Confucius, Melville's copy of Dante, and other topics relating to American writers of the 19th century. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.