Letters and Social Aims

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Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature, State University of New York at Albany, is General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Glen M. Johnson is Professor of English, The Catholic University of America.

Joel Myerson, Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, is Textual Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.