1. Cornelius Matthews, The Career of Puffer Hopkins (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843), 183.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, ed. Robert E. Spiller (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970), 69.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First Series, ed. Robert E. Spiller (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979), 28, 29.
4. For more on Emerson’s management of his own professional career, particularly through his detailed account books that led him away from book publishing toward what for him was the more lucrative lecture circuit, see Joel Myerson, “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Income from His Books,” The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Ruccoli, ed. Richard Layman and Joel Myerson (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996), 135–49, 136.
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 7, 1838–1842, ed. A.W. Plumstead and Harrison Hayford (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969), 394.