Mrs. Anne S. Hooper. 
Miss Alice S. Hooper. 
Mrs. Caroline Tappan. 
Miss Ellen S. Tappan. 
Miss Mary A. Tappan. 
Mr. T.G.  Appleton. 
Mrs. Henry Edwards. 
Miss Susan E. Dorr. 
Misses Wigglesworth. 
Mr. Edward Wigglesworth. 
Mr. J. Elliot Cabot. 
Mrs. Sarah S. Russell. 
Friends in New York and Philadelphia, through Mr. Williams. 
Mr. William Whiting. 
Mr. Frederick Beck. 
Mr. H.P.  Kidder. 
Mrs. Abel Adams. 
Mrs. George Faulkner. 
Hon. E.R.  Hoar. 
Mr. James B. Thayer. 
Mr. John M. Forbes. 
Mr. James H. Beal. 
Mrs. Anna C. Lodge. 
Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge. 
Mr. H.H.  Hunnewell. 
Mrs. S. Cabot. 
Mr. James A. Dupee. 
Mrs. Anna C. Lowell. 
Mrs. M.F.  Sayles. 
Miss Helen L. Appleton. 
J.R.  Osgood & Co. 
Mr. Richard Soule. 
Mr. Francis Geo. Shaw. 
Dr. R.W.  Hooper. 
Mr. William P. Mason. 
Mr. William Gray. 
Mr. Sam’l G. Ward. 
Mr. J.I.  Bowditch. 
Mr. Geo. C. Ward. 
Mrs. Luicia J. Briggs. 
Mr. John E. Williams. 
Dr. Le Baron Russell.

In May, 1873, Emerson returned to Concord.  His friends and fellow-citizens received him with every token of affection and reverence.  A set of signals was arranged to announce his arrival.  Carriages were in readiness for him and his family, a band greeted him with music, and passing under a triumphal arch, he was driven to his renewed old home amidst the welcomes and the blessings of his loving and admiring friends and neighbors.

CHAPTER XII.

1873-1878.  AET. 70-75.

Publication of “Parnassus.”—­Emerson Nominated as Candidate for the
Office of Lord Rector of Glasgow University.—­Publication of
“Letters and Social Aims.”  Contents:  Poetry and Imagination.—­Social
Aims.—­Eloquence.—­Resources.—­The Comic.—­Quotation and
Originality.—­Progress of Culture.—­Persian Poetry.—­Inspiration.—­
Greatness.—­Immortality.—­Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of “The
Minute-Man” at Concord.—­Publication of Collected Poems.

In December, 1874, Emerson published “Parnassus,” a Collection of Poems by British and American authors.  Many readers may like to see his subdivisions and arrangement of the pieces he has brought together.  They are as follows:  “Nature.”—­“Human Life.”—­“Intellectual.”  —­“Contemplation.”—­“Moral and Religious.”—­“Heroic.”—­“Personal.”  —­“Pictures.”—­“Narrative Poems and Ballads.”—­“Songs.”—­“Dirges and Pathetic Poems.”—­“Comic and Humorous.”—­“Poetry of Terror.”—­“Oracles and Counsels.”

I have borrowed so sparingly from the rich mine of Mr. George Willis Cooke’s “Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Life, Writings, and Philosophy,” that I am pleased to pay him the respectful tribute of taking a leaf from his excellent work.

“This collection,” he says,