| Abbreviations | p. xxi |
| Historical Introduction | p. xxv |
| Statement of Editorial Principles | p. c |
| Textual Introduction | p. cvi |
| Uncollected Prose Writings | |
| Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages (Christian Disciple and Theological Review, November-December 1822) | p. 1 |
| An Extract from Unpublished Travels in the East (The Offering for 1829) | p. 10 |
| [Review of A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship] (Christian Examiner, March 1831) | p. 12 |
| A Historical Discourse, Delivered before the Citizens of Concord, 12th September, 1835. On the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town (1835) | p. 17 |
| [Review of Lemuel Shattuck, History of the Town of Concord] (Yeoman's Gazette, 3 October 1835) | p. 55 |
| Preface of the American Editors (Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1836) | p. 56 |
| Michael Angelo (North American Review, January 1837) | p. 58 |
| Advertisement (Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838) | p. 75 |
| Milton (North American Review, July 1838) | p. 77 |
| The Editors to the Reader (Dial, July 1840) | p. 95 |
| Thoughts on Modern Literature (Dial, October 1840) | p. 99 |
| New Poetry (Dial, October 1840) | p. 121 |
| [Review of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years before the Mast] (Dial, October 1840) | p. 137 |
| [Review of Jones Very, Essays and Poems] (Dial, July 1841) | p. 138 |
| Walter Savage Landor (Dial, October 1841) | p. 140 |
| Ezra Ripley, D.D. (Concord Republican, 1 October 1841) | p. 151 |
| The Senses and the Soul (Dial, January 1842) | p. 154 |
| Transcendentalism (Dial, January 1842) | p. 161 |
| Obituary [of Hannah Joy] (Christian Register, 2 April 1842) | p. 166 |
| Preliminary Note [Henry David Thoreau, "Natural History of Massachusetts"] (Dial, July 1842) | p. 168 |
| Prayers (Dial, July 1842) | p. 169 |
| Fourierism and the Socialists (Dial, July 1842) | p. 174 |
| Chardon Street and Bible Conventions (Dial, July 1842) | p. 179 |
| Agriculture of Massachusetts (Dial, July 1842) | p. 191 |
| Record of the Months (Dial, July 1842) | p. 195 |
| [Review of George Borrow, The Zincali] | p. 195 |
| [Review of James Lockhart, Ancient Spanish Ballads] | p. 197 |
| [Review of George H. Colton, Tecumseh: A Poem] | p. 198 |
| [Review of The Cambridge Miscellany of Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy] | p. 198 |
| [Notice of Orestes A. Brownson, A Letter to Rev. W. E. Channing] | p. 199 |
| [Notice of Novalis, Henry of Ofterdingen] | p. 199 |
| [Notice of Caroline Southey, Chapters on Churchyards] | p. 199 |
| [Notice of the London Phalanx] | p. 199 |
| Intelligence (Dial, July 1842) | p. 200 |
| Exploring Expedition | p. 200 |
| Association of State Geologists | p. 201 |
| Harvard University | p. 202 |
| [Wordsworth's new poems and other news] | p. 203 |
| [Tennyson] | p. 204 |
| [Henry Taylor, John Sterling, Thomas Carlyle] | p. 204 |
| Berlin | p. 205 |
| New Jerusalem Church | p. 205 |
| English Reformers (Dial, October 1842) | p. 207 |
| [Introductory note to Charles Lane, "James Pierrepont Greaves"] (Dial, October 1842) | p. 231 |
| [Introductory note to Samuel Gray Ward, "The Gallery"] (Dial, October 1842) | p. 232 |
| Editor's Table (Dial, October 1842) | p. 233 |
| [Papers from England] | p. 233 |
| [John A. Heraud's lectures] | p. 233 |
| [Charles Lane and Henry G. Wright] | p. 234 |
| [French journals] | p. 234 |
| Berlin | p. 235 |
| American Editor's Notice (Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843) | p. 238 |
| Literary Intellignece (Dial, January 1843) | p. 239 |
| Record of the Months (Dial, January 1843) | p. 241 |
| [Review of Confessions of St. Augustine] | p. 241 |
| [English books] | p. 242 |
| Goethe and Swedenborg | p. 243 |
| Europe and European Books (Dial, April 1843) | p. 244 |
| [Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain] (Dial, April 1843) | p. 255 |
| Ethnical Scriptures. Extracts from the Desatir (Dial, July 1843) | p. 256 |
| Past and Present (Dial, July 1843) | p. 261 |
| [Introductory note to Samuel Gray Ward, "Notes on Art and Architecture"] (Dial, July 1843) | p. 268 |
| [Notice to Correspondents] (Dial, July 1843) | p. 269 |
| Record of the Months (Dial, July 1843) | p. 270 |
| [Review of John Pierpont, Anti-Slavery Poems] | p. 270 |
| [Review of William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets and Other Poems] | p. 270 |
| [Review of Nathaniel W. Coffin, America, an Ode: and Other Poems] | p. 271 |
| [Review of William Ellery Channing, Poems] | p. 271 |
| [Review of Fredrika Bremer, The H-Family and The President's Daughters] | p. 272 |
| To Correspondents (Dial, July 1843) | p. 273 |
| Mr. Channing's Poems (United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, September 1843) | p. 274 |
| A Letter (Dial, October 1843) | p. 289 |
| [Notices of books] (Dial, October 1843) | p. 300 |
| An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (1844) | p. 301 |
| The Garden of Plants. A Leaf from a Journal (The Gift, 1844) | p. 328 |
| [Introductory note to Henry David Thoreau, "Pindar"] (Dial, January 1844) | p. 332 |
| Deutsche Schnellpost (Dial, January 1844) | p. 333 |
| The Tragic (Dial, April 1844) | p. 334 |
| To the Public (Massachusetts Quarterly Review, December 1847) | p. 341 |
| [Review of John Sterling, Essays and Tales] (Massachusetts Quarterly Review, September 1848) | p. 348 |
| New Translation of Dante (Massachusetts Quarterly Review, September 1848) | p. 350 |
| War (Æsthetic Papers, 1849) | p. 351 |
| [Review of Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich] (Massachusetts Quarterly Review, March 1849) | p. 365 |
| Mr. R. W. Emerson's Remarks at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge, Wednesday Evening, Sept. 10 (1856) | p. 371 |
| Samuel Hoar (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, December 1856) | p. 376 |
| Character of Samuel Hoar (Monthly Religious Magazine, January 1857) | p. 381 |
| Amos Bronson Alcott (The New American Cyclopædia, 1858) | p. 385 |
| [Address at the John Brown Relief Meeting] (18 November 1859) | p. 387 |
| Speech at the John Brown Relief Meeting at Salem (6 January 1860) | p. 391 |
| American Civilization (Atlantic Monthly, April 1862) | p. 394 |
| Henry D. Thoreau (Boston Daily Advertiser, 8 May 1862) | p. 411 |
| Thoreau (Atlantic Monthly, August 1862) | p. 413 |
| The President's Proclamation (Atlantic Monthly, November 1862) | p. 432 |
| Saadi (Atlantic Monthly, July 1864) | p. 439 |
| Editor's Notice (Henry David Thoreau, Letters to Various Persons, 1865) | p. 446 |
| Character (North American Review, April 1866) | p. 447 |
| [Remarks on the Character of George L. Stearns] (14 April 1867) | p. 465 |
| Address [at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Concord, 19 April 1867] | p. 470 |
| Mrs. Sarah A. Ripley (Boston Daily Advertiser, 31 July 1867) | p. 487 |
| [Speech at the Reception of the Chinese Embassy] (21 August 1868) | p. 490 |
| Introduction (Plutarch's Morals, 1870) | p. 493 |
| Preface (William Ellery Channing, The Wanderer, 1871) | p. 510 |
| Address [at the Dedication of the New Building for the Concord Free Public Library, 1 October 1873] | p. 513 |
| Preface (Parnassus, 1875) | p. 521 |
| Address [at the Unveiling of the Minute-Man Statue, Concord, 19 April 1875] | p. 528 |
| Miscellaneous Items | |
| [Prospectus for Thomas Carlyle, The History of the French Revolution] (1837) | p. 531 |
| [Advertisement for "Human Culture" lecture series] (Boston Daily Advertiser, 8 November 1837) | p. 531 |
| Prospectus [Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838] | p. 532 |
| Carlyle's Miscellanies (Christian Register and Boston Observer, 7 July 1838) | p. 533 |
| Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell (Boston Daily Advertiser, 31 January 1846) | p. 533 |
| [Advertising blurb for Jean Ingelow, The High Tide] (1864) | p. 533 |
| [Advertising blurb for William Rounseville Alger, The Poetry of the Orient] (1864) | p. 533 |
| [Advertising blurb for The Complete Works of Charles Sumner] (1874) | p. 534 |
| Notes | p. 535 |
| Appendix: List of line-end hyphenation | p. 927 |
| Index | p. 935 |
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