This 15th volume of ""Studies"" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles. The essays and their authors are: ""The record of a friendship: the letters of Convers Francis to Frederic Henry Hedge in Bangor and Providence, 1835-1850"", by Guy R. Woodsall; ""Margaret Fuller as a teacher in Providence: the school journal of Ann Brown"", by Laraine R. Fergenson; ""Feminist of the ""tribune"": Margaret Fuller as professional writer"", by Paula Kopacz; ""New letters of Gansevoort Melville: 1845-1846"", by Janet Galligani Casey; ""'The living writers of America': a manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe"", by Burton R. Pollin; ""Hawthorne, the tories and Benjamin Lynde Oliver"", by Margaret B. Moore; ""Inscribing paternity: Nathaniel Hawthorne as 19th century father"", by Leland S. Person, Jr.; ""Hawthorne's last day at the consulate: 'to think of doing good'"", by Bill Ellis; ""The selected letters of William Ellery Channing the youngster (part three)"", by Francis B. Dedmond; ""'Affording the rising generation an adequate notion': Walt Whitman in 19th-century textbooks, handbooks and anthologies"", by Ed Folsom; ""The no name series, with a bibliography"", by Madeleine B. Stern and Daniel Shealy; and an annotated list of the year's book publications, by Alfred G. Litton.