Produced by 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. CHAPTER XII. SUMMING UP AND REVERIES The Bearings of the Association and its Occupations--Slanders of the New York Press--Definition of the Associationists Position toward Fourier--Forebodings at the Farm--Personal Reveries. CHAPTER XIII. THE FIRST BREAK