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Reading edition
Page 355, note 1. Mr. Emerson had in mind the astonishing fertility of resource in difficulties shown by the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment in the march from Annapolis to Washington, as told by Major Theodore Winthrop in “New York Seventh Regiment. Our march to Washington” (Atlantic Monthly June, 1861). See “Resources,” Letters and Social Aims, p. 143.