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Samuel Hoar; Putnam's Monthly Magazine, 8, 645-6, Dec., 1856.
Solitude and Society [Sic]; Atlantic Monthly, 1, 225-9, Dec, 1857.
Books; ibid., 1, 343-53, Jan., 1858.
Persian Poetry; ibid., 1, 724-34, Apr., 1858.
Eloquence; ibid., 2, 385-97, Sept., 1858.
Culture; ibid., 6, 343-53, Sept., i860.
Domestic Life [Revision of Society and Solitude]; The Dial . . . M. D. Conway, editor, 1 [all published], 585-602, Cincinnati, Oct., 1860.
The Story of West-Indian Emancipation [Emancipation in the British West Indies]; ibid., 1, 649-60, Dec, 1860.
Old Age; Atlantic Monthly, 9, 134-40, Jan., 1862.
American Civilization. Ibid., 9, 502-11, Apr., 1862.
- Henry D. Thoreau [obituary notice]; Boston Daily Advertiser, May 8, 1862. G. W. Cooke, Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston, 1908, 120-2.
Thoreau; Atlantic Monthly, 10, 239-49, Aug., 1862.
The President's Proclamation [The Emancipation Proclamation], Ibid., 10, 638-42, Nov., 1862.
Saadi. Ibid., 14, 33-7, July, 1864.
- [Reports of Lectures on American Life]; Boston Commonwealth, Dec. 10, 17, 24, 31, 1864, Jan. 7, 1865.
Abraham Lincoln [Remarks at the Memorial Services in Concord, April 19, 1865]. Boston Commonwealth, April 29, 1865.
Character [distinct essay from that in Essays, Second Series]; North American Review, 102, 356-73, Apr., 1866.
George L. Stearns; Boston Commonwealth, Apr. 20, 1867.
Mrs. Sarah A. Ripley; Boston Daily Advertiser, July 31, 1867.
Aspects of Culture; Atlantic Monthly, 21, 87-95, Jan., 1868.
Quotation and Originality; North American Review, 106, 543-57, Apr., 1868.
- Natural Religion [Horticultural Hall Address]; Boston Commonwealth, May 8, 1869.
- What Books to Read [Address at Howard University]; Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 22, 1872.
- Address at the Japanese Banquet, August 2, 1872; Boston Commonwealth, Aug. 10, 1872.
- Address at the Complimentary Dinner to James Anthony Froude . . . New York, October 15, 1872. New York Daily Tribune, Oct. 16, 1872.
The Assault upon Mr. [Charles] Sumner. Boston Evening Transcript, April 29, 1874.
- Remarks at Centennial Celebration, Boston Latin School; November 8, 1876; Boston Daily Advertiser, Nov. 9, 1876.
Demonology; North American Review, 124, 179-90, Mar., 1877.
Perpetual Forces. Ibid., 125, 271-82, Sept., 1877.
Sovereignty of Ethics. Ibid., 126, 404-20, May- June, 1878.
The Preacher; Unitarian Review, 13, 1-13, Jan., 1880.
Mr. Emerson on Woman Suffrage [Woman], Woman's Journal. 12, 100, Mar. 26, 1881.
Impressions of Thomas Carlyle in 1848; Scribner's Monthly [afterwards the Century], 22, 89-92, May, 1881.
The Superlative; Century Magazine, 23, 534-47, Feb., 1882.
