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WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Holiness" and "Heroism”

"Holiness" and "Heroism" (lectures 8 and 9 of the 'Human Culture' series, 1837–38) Inferred

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · lectures 8 and 9 of the 'Human Culture' series, 1837–38

InferredFuller asks Emerson to send his manuscript lectures "on Holiness and Heroism," identified by Hudspeth as the eighth and ninth lectures of Emerson's "Human Culture" series (1837–38).

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“send me your two lectures on Holiness and Heroism to read while in Boston. Let me have these two lectures to read at any rate, whether you come or no.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller asks Emerson to send his manuscript lectures "on Holiness and Heroism," identified by Hudspeth as the eighth and ninth lectures of Emerson's "Human Culture" series (1837–38).