BROOK FARM ***
Tiffany Vergon, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
BROOK FARM
HISTORIC AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS
BY
JOHN THOMAS CODMAN
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BROOK FARM MOVEMENT
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.
CHAPTER II.
THE SECOND DEVELOPMENT
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.
CHAPTER III.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND DESCRIPTIONS
Departure from Boston, and Arrival at the Farm--Description of the Place--Attica--Personal Occupations, etc.--The Wild Flowers.
CHAPTER IV.
THE INDUSTRIAL PERIOD
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.
CHAPTER V.
THE RUSH AND HUM OF LIFE AND WORK
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.
CHAPTER VI.
THE "HARBINGER," AND VARIOUS SUBJECTS
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.
CHAPTER VII.
MY SECOND SPRING
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.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DRAMA AND IMPORTANT LETTERS
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.
CHAPTER IX.
SOCIAL, AND PARLOR LIFE
Meetings in Boston, etc.--Two Lady Friends--Music at the Eyry-- Consciousness of Self--The Great Snow Storm--C. P. Cranch's Imitations.
CHAPTER X.
FUN ALIVE
Fun at the Phalanx--Ripley's Quotation--On Punning--The Robbery, and the Waiting Group.
CHAPTER XI.
THE GREAT CATASTROPHE
The Last Dance, and the Fire--The _Harbinger's_ Account of It-- Feeding the Firemen--The Morning after the Fire.
