“A well-organized supplementary memory, in one volume.”

Reference work conceived as an extra store of literary recall · Preface, The Reader’s Encyclopedia

• Knowledge
• Memory
• Reading

“If I merely recount the outlines of her life, it loses her.”

Biography as outline cannot hold the person · Foreword, Perpetual Light

• Biography
• Life
• Memory

“This is the only means I have at present of acknowledging publicly the vast debt I owe to her.”

Verse offered as public thanks after bereavement · Foreword, Perpetual Light

• Gratitude
• Love
• Memory