The 17th volume of ""Studies"" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles. The essays and their authors are: ""A Calendar of the Letters of Mary Moody Emerson"", by Nancy Craig Simmons; ""James Fenimore Cooper Goes to Sea: Two Unpublished Letters by a Family Friend"", by Alan Taylor; ""The Temple School Journals of George and Martha Kuhn"", by Alfred G. Litton and Joel Myerson; ""Bryant and Poe: A Reacquaintance"", by William Cullen Bryant II; ""Bronson Alcott and Jacob Boehme"", by Arthur Versluis; ""Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1838' (Part One)"", by Larry A. Carlson; ""Poe, Anna Cora Mowatt and T. Tennyson Twinkle, by James M. Hutchisson; ""Hawthorne's Moral Theatres and the Post-Puritan Stage"", by Kurt Eisen; ""Confucius at Walden Pond: Thoreau's Unpublished Confucian Translations"", by Hongbo Tan; ""Melville's Copy of Dante: Evidence of New Connections Between the ""Commedia"" and ""Mardi"" by Lea Bertani Vozar Newman; ""Whittier's 'Snowbound': 'The Circle of Our Hearth' and the Discourse on Domesticity"", by James E. Rocks'; and an annotated list of the year's book publications, by Alfred G. Litton.