Excerpt from Letters From Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend: 1838-1853 The letters and fragments of letters here printed are part of the early records of a friendship which, beginning when Emerson was thirty years old, lasted un broken and cordial till his death. In his well-known essay, Emerson has set forth his conception of friendship in what, with no derogatory intention, he called fine lyric words, and his ideal izing genius is nowhere more manifest than in his depicting of it. For its per fection it must be free from the limita tions inevitable in all human relations. It was never to be completely realized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.