Harvard Classics

Introductory note on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (The Ridpath's Library of Universal Literature)

In all literary history there is no happier love story than that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. During their secret courtship Miss Barrett sent Browning many beautiful love letters written in verse. (Volume 41, Harvard Classics)

Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, Sept. 12, 1846.

Introductory note on Adam Smith (Volume 10, Harvard Classics)

What regulates wages, on what do they depend? Adam Smith, world's authority on economic problems, advances his theories on these matters. (Volume 10, Harvard Classics)

Introductory note on Oliver Wendell Holms (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)

One of America's famous New Englanders, Oliver Wendell Holmes, devoted his life principally to medicine. His name, however, was made famous through his poem, "Old Ironsides," by which he saved America's most famous battleship from destruction when her fighting days were ended. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)

Introductory note on Ralph Waldo Emerson (Volume 5, Harvard Classics)

"There are days during the year," says Emerson, "when the world of nature reaches perfection." Can anyone escape this call, especially in the glorious Indian Summer? (Volume 5, Harvard Classics)

Emerson retires from the ministry, Sept. 9, 1832.

Introductory note on Hermann Von Helmholtz (Volume 30, Harvard Classics)

There was a time when the snow fell and did not melt in summer. Then from the frozen north there descended huge masses of ice that covered northern Europe and most of North America. Glaciers reveal a new world to us. (Volume 30, Harvard Classics)

Helmholtz died Sept. 8, 1894.