May 5th, 1862 My Account Through Better and Worse I write this memoir to provide a firsthand account on my life, free from the bias views of other authors. This account is to provide a clear insight of my life and to present my thoughts on certain philosophical views that I have helped compile. My dear friendship with the Emersons through my college life at Harvard will be included in this piece. To gloat and take …showed first 75 words of 1010 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1010 total…got the better part of me and is quickly spreading, making me deteriorate at an exponential rate. I am on my journey to Minnesota for a quest for better health, but I feel that I do not have the stamina to make it all the way. If I am to pass while I am on this expedition, I would like to be buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, my native home and state.