These papers, touching a few of the many influences of Emerson, philosophical, religious, literary & political, have served as public addresses. Mr. Mead found that few studies of Emerson bring out his thought & attitude more clearly or impressively than these in which we view him in relation to Parker, with whom among religious teachers in his time his sympathies were closest, and to Carlyle, with whom his affinities & contrasts are equally striking & didactic. Contents: Philosophy of Emerson; Emerson & Theodore Parker; and Emerson & Carlyle.