this field, when we were very young, was to be covered by Chauncy
Place Church and by the brick houses on Summer Street. Where the
family removed to I do not remember, but I always knew the boys,
William, Ralph, and perhaps Edward, and I again associated with
Ralph at the Latin School, where we were instructed by Master Gould
from 1815 to 1817, entering College in the latter year.

"... I have no recollection of his relative rank as a scholar, but it
was undoubtedly high, though not the highest. He never was idle or a
lounger, nor did he ever engage in frivolous pursuits. I should say
that his conduct was absolutely faultless. It was impossible that
there should be any feeling about him but of regard and affection.
He had then the same manner and courtly hesitation in addressing you
that you have known in him since. Still, he was not prominent in the
class, and, but for what all the world has since known of him,
his would not have been a conspicuous figure to his classmates in
recalling College days.

"The fact that we were almost the only Latin School fellows in the
class, and the circumstance that he was slow during the Freshman
year to form new acquaintances, brought us much together, and an
intimacy arose which continued through our College life. We were in
the habit of taking long strolls together, often stopping for repose
at distant points, as at Mount Auburn, etc.... Emerson was not
talkative; he never spoke for effect; his utterances were well
weighed and very deliberately made, but there was a certain flash
when he uttered anything that was more than usually worthy to be
remembered. He was so universally amiable and complying that my
evil spirit would sometimes instigate me to take advantage of his
gentleness and forbearance, but nothing could disturb his