Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs

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Transcendentalism; Explained by Mr. Ripley,—The Proposition,—Members of the Transcendental Club—The first Persons at the Community—Constitution and Laws; Articles of Agreement—Description of Mr. Ripley, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Dwight, Mrs. Ripley, Mr. Dana, Mr. Bradford, Hawthorne and Others.
Thoughts on Reorganization—Fourier on Social Code—Mr. Ripley's Action—Progress of Society—Theories by Fourier, etc.—Closing of the Transcendental Period—Reorganization, and the Industrial Period.
Departure from Boston, and Arrival at the Farm—Description of the Place—Attica—Personal Occupations, etc.—The Wild Flowers.
Descriptions of Members: The General, ; Ryckman, Blake, Drew, Orvis, Cheevers—William H. Charming, and Albert Brisbane,—S. Margaret Fuller—Ralph W. Emerson—Theodore Parker and Mr. Ripley's Joke.
Many Visitors—An Odd Visitor—The Groups and Series, etc.—The Workshop—My first Spring—Death and Funeral—The Amusement Group, Dances, Walks and first Summer.
The Harbinger Published; Editors and Contributors, Its Characteristics and Effect—The Industrial Phalanx—The Phalanstery—A Financial Report—The Grahamites, and their Table—John Allen and Boy—The Visitation of Small-pox.
Resumption of Building—The Crowded Conditions—Gardener's Department—Prince Albert—Jumping the Brook—Retrenchment—The Doves—The Gardener—The Position of Woman in Association—The Right to Vote—The Wedding—Lizzie Curson—Our Young Folks.
The Play in the Shop—The Associative Movement—Rev. Adin Ballou's Letter—Mr. Brisbane's, and Mr. Ripley's Letters—Mr. Pratt's Departure—The Great Party—Cyclops.
Meetings in Boston, etc.—Two Lady Friends—Music at the Eyry—Consciousness of Self—The Great Snow Storm—C. P. Cranch's Imitations.
Fun at the Phalanx—Ripley's Quotation—On Punning—The Robbery, and the Waiting Group.