Includes: Announcements of upcoming events; Appreciations; Materials relating to Concord Free Public Library exhibition "Emerson in Concord," and related programming; Guides; Unitarian-Universalist Association programming materials; Materials relating to the conference 'Spires of Form': the Emerson Bicentennial Conference, April 25-26, 2004 held at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. ("Empires [sic] of form": The Emerson Bicentennial Conference, April 25-26, 2003 (in: MHS Miscellany, no. 83, Winter 2003); Conference schedule and packet of information from the conference. Collection of essays read during the conference: Saving Emerson for posterity, Lawrence Buell; (Re)visiting 'The Adirondacs': Emerson's confrontation with wild nature, [by Robert E. Burkholder]; The new movement's tide: Emerson and Women's rights, by Phyllis Cole; Emerson, Garrison, and the value of the radical assocations, by T. Gregory Garvey; The Legacy of reform: Emerson idealism and the Civil Rights Movement, by Len Gougeon; Building their own Waldos: Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the challenges of biography in the 1880s, by Robert D. Habich; Later Emerson: Aintellect [i.e. 'Intellect'] [approx. equal to] and the Conduct of life, by Robert N. Hudspeth (two copies); The power of recurring to the sublime at pleasure: Emerson and feeling, by Wesley T. Mott; History and form in "Fate", by Barbara Packer; Emerson and William James, [by Robert D. Richardson], Emerson, Columbus, and the geography of self-reliance: the example of the sermons, by Susan L. Roberson; Experience, instinct, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation, by David M. Robinson; Emerson and his audiences: the New England lectures, 1843-1844, by Nancy Craig Simmons; Poverty and Power: revisiting Emerson's poetics, [by Joseph M. Thomas]; Emerson on language as action, by Gustaaf Van Cromphout; Emerson and Gnosticism, by Albert J. von Frank; If body can sing: Emerson and scientific naturalism, by Laura Dassow Walls; Chladni patterns, lyceum halls, and skilful experimenters: Emerson's new metaphysics for the listening reader, [by Sarah Wilder]).
