October 1863

In This Issue
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Articles
Barbara Frietchie
Voluntaries
Emerson pays poetic tribute to the Union's military volunteers
Life Without Principle
“The poet … must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planning-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.”
Charles Lamb's Uncollected Writings: Second Paper
My Palace
The Deacon's Holocaust
The United States Armory
The Pewee
Mrs. Lewis: A Story in Three Parts. Part Ii
The Conquest of Cuba
Equinoctial
The Legend of Monte Del Diablo
A Letter to Thomas Carlyle
Our Domestic Relations; Or, How to Treat the Rebel States
The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus
Levana; Or, the Doctrine of Education
