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  • The Emersons are the creation of Elizabeth Peters, who has a doctorate in archeology.

    Another shirt ruined Michelle 2005

  • The Emersons are the creation of Elizabeth Peters, who has a doctorate in archeology.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Michelle 2005

  • Besides regular weekly visits with his mother and sisters (who brought baked goods and pre-made meals, lest Thoreau be forced to do something drastic, like hunt and gather) and frequent (and also frequently food-related, see a pattern here?) sojourns to the Emersons ', Thoreau's idyllic, natural lifestyle also included numerous house parties.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 where a widow's strange story -- and even stranger request -- is about to plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, superstition ... and murder.

    The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters: Book summary 2010

  • “Those Concord Days were the happiest of my life, for we had charming playmates in the little Emersons, Channings, Hawthornes and Goodwins with the illustrious parents and their friends to enjoy our pranks and share our excursions,”12 Louisa wrote later.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Margaret Fuller sometimes stayed with the Hawthornes and sometimes with the Emersons.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • He was reading Emersons essays and he had some sense, you know, young guy from a troubled family.

    Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself' 2010

  • On September 22, Bronson Alcott took the train to Concord, signed the papers drawn up by S. E. Sewall to acquire the new house, had dinner with Thoreau, and spent the night with the Emersons.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Henry left the Emersons to nurse his brother, who was raving and in terrible pain.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • However, student and mentor obviously reconciled; in 1876, Lazarus visited the Emersons in Concord, Massachusetts.

    Emma Lazarus. 2009

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