Literary and Social Essays

293 pp. Green boards with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges. Curtis was a proponent of quality and civil rights for African Americans, the American Transcendentalist movement, and Utopian communities (he joined Brook Farm in 1842). His family was friendly with Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, and active in the Underground Railroad. CONTENTS: Emerson: Homes of American Authors, 1854; Hawthorne: Homes of American Authors, 1854; The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: North American Review, Vol. XCIX, 1864; Rachel: Putnam's Magazine, Vol. 1, 1853; Sir Philip Sidney: Hitherto Unpublished, Written in 1857; Longfellow: Harper's Magazine, Vol. LXV, 1882; Oliver Wendell Holmes: Harper's Magazine, Vol. LXXXIII, 1891; Washington Irving: Read at Ashfield, 1889, Printed by the Grollier Club, 1892.