Contents

Foreword

Part I: Solid Seasons

A Biography of the Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Part II: Thoreau

Friendship

(from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)

Selected Writings on Friendship

Thoreau on Emerson

Part III: Emerson

Friendship

(from Essays: First Series)

Selected Writings on Friendship

Emerson on Thoreau

Thoreau

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Bibliography