Status Updates From Glad to the Brink of Fear: ...

real attempt to unify the essays. Comment--"You could read them backwards." Believer in the power of writing coming from short passages, so his style fits his thoughts on reading . . . lectured around the country . . . met Coleridge, Wordsworth in England -- not much sympathy developed, but lifelong friendship with Macauley. 2nd wife poked fun at him with writings intended only for family.

Left safe post as Unitarian . . . first wife dies of TB . . . marries again . . . writer, lecturer . . . cool personality . . . first son (Waldo) dies of scarlet fever . . . grief at times, cool at times . . . friendship with Thoreau who is younger by many years . . . friendship cools . . . Thoreau dies of TB . . . writing style--journal, indexed, pulls sentences out on "Nature" for example. Plunks them down.