As a young man George William Curtis lived at the Brook Farm community and then in Concord, near Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau. His letters to the music critic John Sullivan Dwight, a fellow Brook Farmer, are introduced by George Willis Cooke’s account of those years and range over books, music, friendship and the hopes of the Transcendentalist circle.
An intimate source for students of Brook Farm and of New England’s literary flowering in the 1840s. Download the free EPUB.