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Title: My Friends at Brook Farm

Author: John Van der Zee Sears


Release date: January 1, 2005 [eBook #7302]
Most recently updated: January 31, 2020

Language: English

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My Friends at Brook Farm

by John Van Der Zee Sears

TO MY FRIEND
JOSEPH HORNOR COATES, Esq.
OF PHILADELPHIA

Contents

Chapter I.THE OLD COLONIE
Chapter II.FRIEND GREELEY
Chapter III.A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
Chapter IV.A BAD BEGINNING
Chapter V.A GOOD ENDING
Chapter VI.ENTERTAINMENTS
Chapter VII.THE SCHOOL
Chapter VIII.ODDMENTS
Chapter IX.FOURIER AND THE FARMERS
Chapter X.UNTO THIS LAST

ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN VAN DER ZEE SEARS
HORACE GREELEY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
“THE HIVE”
CHARLES A. DANA
THE PAGEANT
A PIONEER KINDERGARTEN
NATANIEL HAWTHORNE
Portrait of the Author: John Van Der Zee Sears