Familiar letters of Henry David Thoreau

I. Years of Discipline. Sketch of Thoreau's life from birth to twenty years; Letters to his brother John and sister Helen; Early friendship and correspondence with Emerson and his family; Staten Island and New York letters to the Thoreaus and Emersons

II. The golden age of advancement. Correspondence with C. Lane, J.E. Cabot, Emerson, and Blake

III. Friends and followers. The shipwreck of Margaret Fuller; An essay on love and chastity; Moral epistles to Harrison Blake of Worcester; Excursions to Cape Cod, New Bedford, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey; Excursions to Monadnoc and Minnesota; Last illness and death.