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Excerpt from A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 1 of 2 The letters I have found less directly available than I had hoped. Emerson says of himself that he was not born under epistolary stars he did not readily communicate his feelings of the mo ment, before they were tried and sifted by reflec tion letter-writing was an effort to him, and the efiort prevented him from giving to his letters that direct impress of his personality - of the man, apart from the author - which we look to find in them. And the same thing is true to a great extent even of his journals, of which there is a full series from his college-days onward almost to the end of his life: they do not often bring us closer to him than we are brought by his published writ ings. I have been obliged to dismember and re arrange them more than I wished, and often to give their general drift in my own words, instead of simply allowing him to tell his own story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.