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Recollections of Emerson's Last Years.-Mr. Conway's Visits.-Extracts from Mr. Whitman's Journal.-Dr. Le Baron Russell's Visit.-Dr. Edward Emerson's Account.-Illness and Death.-Funeral Services.

Mr. Conway gives the following account of two visits to Emerson after the decline of his faculties had begun to make itself obvious:-

"In 1875, when I