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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Edith's gray dress ensemble</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of several fashionable outfits displayed in her bedroom during the special exhibition. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Clothing displayed in Edith's bedroom</image:title>
      <image:caption>A drawing of her mother, Lidian, hangs on the wall. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - A purple velvet top of Edith's</image:title>
      <image:caption>Matching an ensemble from Paris. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - A Parisian ensemble on Edith's bed</image:title>
      <image:caption>This purple velvet and lace set was made for her in France. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Edith's lace chemisette</image:title>
      <image:caption>Another piece for her purple velvet ensemble. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Edith's maternity ensemble</image:title>
      <image:caption>Edith married William H. Forbes in 1865, in her parents’ parlor, and went on to bear eight children. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Edith's hat and a book she published</image:title>
      <image:caption>In addition to helping her father edit Parnassus, Edith compiled several anthologies for children. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Book inscribed to Edith from her mother, Lidian</image:title>
      <image:caption>Given to her in 1853 on the occasion of her twelfth birthday. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Children's tea set</image:title>
      <image:caption>These cups and saucers were among the girls’ playthings. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Edith &amp;amp; Ellen's paper dolls</image:title>
      <image:caption>The sisters likely crafted these themselves. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Clothing displayed in Ellen's bedroom</image:title>
      <image:caption>A lace blouse and checkered apron from Ellen’s wardrobe were displayed next to her open traveling trunk—its interior is usually not on view to visitors.. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Ellen’s traveling trunk</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ellen often accompanied her father on trips and lecture tours in his later years. She shared a name—and the initials ETE—with Emerson’s first wife, Ellen Tucker, who died of tuberculosis. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Ellen's traveling outfit</image:title>
      <image:caption>This dress and hat remain on view in Ellen’s room. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Author Kate Culkin in Ellen’s bedroom</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seeing Ellen’s original traveling ensemble helped inspire Culkin to write her biography of the sisters. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Young Ellen's artwork</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two pencil sketches by Ellen, including one of her younger sister, Edith. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - A first edition of "Flower Fables"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Louisa May Alcott’s first published book was dedicated to Ellen Emerson because Alcott had originally created the stories for her. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Pages from Ellen's notebook</image:title>
      <image:caption>Like her father, Ellen kept journals and was a prolific correspondent. Photo by K.L. Martin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen &amp;amp; Edith: A Look Back - Gloriosa the Donkey</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo of Ellen astride her donkey, Gloriosa, on display next to Gloriosa’s bridle. Gloriosa was sent to Ellen from the Azores as a gift after she’d spent time there in 1868. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Sea-born Treasures” - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Silhouette of Edward Bliss Emerson on the mantel in the Emerson House Study, flanked by helmet conches. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Sea-born Treasures” - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of a pair of queen conches which adorn the Nursery mantel in the Emerson House. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s bas-relief sculpture of Charles Chauncy Emerson on the mantel in the northwest bedroom, between helmet conches. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This glossy, cameo-colored helmet conch over the “Red Room” fireplace served as a decorative doorstop in Emerson’s day. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>This previously unknown photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson has been acquired by the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, MA.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Visitors to the Emerson House on May 25th enjoyed special treats for the occasion. Photo by M. Gordinier.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Thanks for a Great 2025 Season! - Spring Garden Tour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lidian’s roses were in bloom for a guided walk around the Emersons’ garden in June. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Thanks for a Great 2025 Season! - "We Were Friends" Performance</image:title>
      <image:caption>A short play exploring the friendship of Emerson &amp; Fuller was staged in the Emerson Barn in July. Photo by Tammy Rose of Transcendental Concord.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Thanks for a Great 2025 Season! - An Ellen &amp;amp; Edith Exhibition</image:title>
      <image:caption>Clothing, books, and other artifacts from the sisters' lives were on display for the first time this season to coincide with the release of the biography Emerson’s Daughters, by Kate Culkin. Photo by E. Emerson.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Edith Emerson Forbes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sisters Edith and Ellen Emerson, circa 1858.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Edith Emerson Forbes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This portrait of Edith, painted by William Henry Furness on the occasion of her marriage to William Hathaway Forbes, hangs in the Emerson House parlor—where the wedding took place.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of Edith’s dresses, currently on display for the first time at the Emerson House in Concord, MA as part of a special exhibit on “Emerson’s Daughters.”</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Lidian Jackson Emerson received this hand-painted plate on her 77th birthday in 1879, a gift from her daughter-in-law Annie Shepard Keyes. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Randall Fuller’s group biography, Bright Circle, was released in January of this year and is available in the Emerson House bookshop.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Daughters: A Review and Special Event - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kate Culkin’s dual biography of the Emerson sisters was released in July of this year.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Daughters: A Review and Special Event - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This portrait of Edith (age 6) and Ellen (age 8) by Caroline Hildrith hangs in their parents’ bedroom at the Emerson House.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Discover Concord - Fall 2024 issue</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Discover Concord - Summer 2023 issue</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/born-believing-emersons-birthday</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Born Believing”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Birthday - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mathew B. Brady, ca. 1856. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Born Believing”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Birthday - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Apple blossoms at the Old Manse, the Emersons’ ancestral home in Concord, MA. Photo by Kristi Martin (May 2017).</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/sarah-alden-bradford-ripley</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Old Manse in Concord, MA, ca. 1895–1905. Samuel Ripley inherited the Manse from his father, Ezra, and he and Sarah lived there after he retired from the ministry. After Samuel’s death, Sarah continued to live there alone.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/surveyor-of-the-soul</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/earth-day-2025</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Opening Lines for Earth Day - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wild sparrow egg in nest. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-and-april-19th</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled”: Emerson and April 19th - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photograph of the Concord Museum's North Bridge Battle diorama, depicting a view that may be similar in perspective to the scene Phebe Emerson saw from her home on April 19, 1775. Photo by Daderot.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled”: Emerson and April 19th - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1883. Print by O.W.H. Upham, courtesy of the Library of Congress.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled”: Emerson and April 19th - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French at the North Bridge in Concord, MA, with a verse from Emerson's “Concord Hymn” inscribed on the base. Photo by Leon H. Abdalian (1930).</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/a-rare-film-find</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/1742927927837-X5V1JCGM776BQ4R8S0WS/RWE-film-still-1920s.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - A Rare Film Find - Still of the Emerson House from 1920s film.</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - A Rare Film Find - Same view of the Emerson House in March 2025.</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emersons-study</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Study - Study in the Emerson House</image:title>
      <image:caption>The study in the house contains furnishings and books original to the family, including the table that Emerson used for much of his writing earlier in life.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Study - Emerson’s original ink stand and pen in the Emerson House</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Study - Study replica in the Concord Museum</image:title>
      <image:caption>The original furnishings and contents of Emerson’s study can be seen in the replica across the street at the Concord Museum.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Study - Emerson's writing table in the Concord Museum</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/dispatch-from-argentina</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-04-03</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/margaret-fuller</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Margaret Fuller - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Margaret Fuller, 1840. Engraving courtesy of the Library of Congress.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Margaret Fuller - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Margaret Fuller, 1846. Daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr., courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Margaret Fuller - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The chair that Margaret Fuller relaxed in during her visits to the Emerson House. Photo by M. Gordinier.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/lidian-jackson-emerson-2024</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Lidian Jackson Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Carte de visite portrait photograph of Lidian.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Lidian Jackson Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward, ca. 1850. Courtesy of Harvard University Library.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Lidian Jackson Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lidian’s desk, built for her in Plymouth and brought to Concord in 1835. The heart shaped item was her pen wipe and it is resting on her lap desk. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Lidian Jackson Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pastel of Lidian by Jessie Noa hangs beside a bust of Emerson by sculptor Daniel Chester French in the Emerson House. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Lidian Jackson Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lidian Jackson Emerson, 1866. Photograph by Black &amp; Case, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/mary-moody-emerson</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Mary Moody Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Silhouette of Mary Moody Emerson, ca. 1800. Courtesy of the Concord Free Public Library.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Mary Moody Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mary’s Elm Vale Farm bordered Bear Pond in Waterford, Maine. Photo courtesy of the Waterford Historical Society.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Mary Moody Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mary Moody Emerson is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in the Emerson family plot. The inscription on her headstone was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/diamond</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Diamond - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rocking horse “Diamond” in its place today in the Emerson House nursery. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Diamond - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A wooden plaque at the base of the rocking horse provides Diamond’s notable dates. Photo by B. A. Economou.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Diamond - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An exterior view of the Emerson House from an engraving by John B. Forest. After an image by the Hudson River School painter William Rickarby Miller, which appeared in a book titled Homes of American Authors (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855). Eddy, Lidian, and Diamond the rocking horse can be seen in the foreground on the left.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/frequently-asked-questions</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/7b6e2362-da7e-4041-9f42-e15b877c1bd9/parlor-table.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Frequently Asked Questions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Transcendentalists often met around this table in the Emerson House parlor. Margaret Fuller served as the first editor of their innovative journal, The Dial.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/80719f77-8014-452f-8e60-8f0f771d0491/Dante-Alighieri-study.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Frequently Asked Questions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This portrait of Dante Alighieri, the great 13th-century Italian poet, adorns the north wall of Emerson’s study.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Frequently Asked Questions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Three Fates, a 19th-century copy after Salviati. This painting has occupied pride of place in Emerson’s study since 1845.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/give-all-to-love</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/bc874276-4a5a-4c4d-bb4c-d44931cf174e/Give-All-to-Love-RWE.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Give All to Love - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Give All to Love takes viewers “on a journey through the life and writings of the man who opened the lid of American consciousness.”</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/whatever-i-may-call-you</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/b894fa31-7e4d-4bec-8aad-7122fe059c68/Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-1857-Hawes.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Whatever I May Call You - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856. Daguerreotype by J.J. Hawes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Whatever I May Call You - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Henry David Thoreau, 1856. Daguerreotype by Benjamin D. Maxham.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/christopher-cranch</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Christopher Cranch: Transcendentalist, Artist, and Follower of Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1859.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/7b3f6ab9-2496-42d1-a256-b3cca971decf/Cranch-painting.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Christopher Cranch: Transcendentalist, Artist, and Follower of Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Christopher Cranch gave Ralph Waldo Emerson this landscape painting as a thank-you. It still hangs in the dining room of the Emerson House.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/5b849676-1965-4646-9012-b3e478cbba81/Cranch-Nature-melons.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Christopher Cranch: Transcendentalist, Artist, and Follower of Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Christopher Pearse Cranch, illustration to Emerson's Nature captioned “I expand and live in the warm day, like corn &amp; melons”, ca. 1837–39.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Christopher Cranch: Transcendentalist, Artist, and Follower of Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Christopher Pearse Cranch, illustration to Emerson's Nature captioned “Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, &amp; uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanished. I become a Transparent Eyeball”, ca. 1837–39.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emersons-mountain-interval</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Mountain Interval - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ethan Allen Crawford’s rustic inn, looking south to the “Gate” of the Notch. Lithograph by A.L. Dick after William Henry Bartlett, The Notch House, White Mountains, 1835-1850. Courtesy of the Museum of the White Mountains.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Mountain Interval - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Crawford Notch, looking east to Mount Washington in the distance.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-and-thoreau</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-03-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson and Thoreau: Companions on a Journey of Self-Discovery - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ralph Waldo Emerson &amp; Henry David Thoreau</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/the-american-scholar-2023</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The American Scholar: Emerson’s Call to Awaken American Thought - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ralph Waldo Emerson, c. 1875. Photograph by Allen &amp; Rowell, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The American Scholar: Emerson’s Call to Awaken American Thought - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>First Parish Meeting House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/a-momentous-day-april-19-1775</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/cd89a202-dffd-4bb6-8d97-342e5072bde9/The-Shot-Heard-Round-the-World-D%27Andrea.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - A Momentous Day: April 19, 1775 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Shot Heard 'Round the World by Domenick D'Andrea.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - A Momentous Day: April 19, 1775 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>1836 Battle Monument at the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA. Photo by Jay Sullivan.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/three-roads-back</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-07-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Three Roads Back - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/winter-reflections</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/881addea-25a3-4f4b-8cc2-af2ffee63721/winter-path.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Winter Reflections</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Winter Reflections</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/6e8666ca-1240-4e56-89a8-0d325553d66b/winter-arbor.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Winter Reflections</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Winter Reflections - Photos by E. Emerson</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emersons-journals</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-29</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/06461b3e-d459-42b9-a622-802b6ffa63c2/Emerson-journal-Wide-World-crop.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Mr. Emerson’s Journals - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson started his journal, titled The Wide World, in 1820.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/96e6a0f1-8eab-4768-a84a-10c113c5a57c/Emerson-journal-Harvard-room.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Mr. Emerson’s Journals - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson often sketched in his early journals. This is a sketch of his room at Harvard.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/on-the-grapevine</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/04f0ae75-ed1a-4976-8c9a-98fb7841ca3f/grape-arbor.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - On the Grapevine - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Grape arbor near the barn in the Emerson House garden. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - On the Grapevine - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Clusters of ripening grapes from Emerson’s vine, September 16, 2022. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/green-emerson</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-07-01</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/0b3eafb9-cc2a-4c7e-9a95-1bcc8926dd39/%7B39%7DIMG_4212_10-2-22.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Green Emerson” [1] - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sketch of trees at the Emersons’ house from Poets’ Homes by Arthur Gilman (D. Lothrop and Company, 1879).</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/c16ef354-aecd-4fdd-9ad4-11ebacf88d99/Trees-Log-cover.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Green Emerson” [1] - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson kept diligent records of his trees. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/5cd5f5ab-4679-4ecd-8f0f-61bd43e39295/pears-list-Trees-log.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - “Green Emerson” [1] - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A list of “Selected Pears” in Emerson’s tree log. Photo by R. Davis.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emersons-impact-on-concord</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/eafad874-3697-4c67-9e81-c32c94098ae8/Old-Manse-1900-LoC.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Impact on Concord - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, ca. 1900. Digitized image courtesy of the Library of Congress.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/2a528086-eba5-4af4-a955-625a520d5843/%7B48%7Dnorth%2Bbridge_7-31-22.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Impact on Concord - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Old North Bridge in Concord.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/ff605f7c-3f7e-4127-abda-55f515ec5e08/%7B47%7Demerson%2Bhouse_7-31-22.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s Impact on Concord - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Emerson House on Concord’s Cambridge Turnpike.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/fire-at-the-emerson-house</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Fire at the Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson set up a temporary office in the Concord Courthouse—now the Town Hall—after the fire. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Fire at the Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Emersons stayed with relatives in the Old Manse while work began on the house.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Fire at the Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A beautiful oriel window was added to the Emersons’ bedroom as part of the renovation.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/consider-the-sibyls</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Consider the Sibyls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Libyan Sibyl, print of a detail from Michelangelo’s fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Consider the Sibyls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sibyllae Quatuor (“The Four Sibyls") print of engraving after Raphael’s decorative fresco The Sibyls.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/fd2402f4-f995-4a20-a33b-33de7c04502c/Persian-Sibyl.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Consider the Sibyls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sibylla Persica, print of engraving by Pietro Bettelini after Guercino’s painting The Persian Sibyl.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Consider the Sibyls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>La Vierge au Livre, print of Joseph Théodore Richomme’s engraving after Raphael’s Conestabile Madonna.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/charles-sumner</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Man at the Top of the Stairs - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A portrait of Charles Sumner hangs to the right of the 2nd-floor landing window in the Emerson House. Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Man at the Top of the Stairs - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Senator Charles Sumner</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/17cf3c7d-601a-42e5-8d89-f59e5ce90839/Brooks-attacking-Sumner.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Man at the Top of the Stairs - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Depiction of Charles Sumner being beaten by Preston Brooks in the Senate chamber.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Man at the Top of the Stairs - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This bronze statue of Charles Sumner by Thomas Ball stands in Boston’s Public Garden.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/spring-2022-opening-of-the-emerson-house</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Spring 2022 Opening of the Ralph Waldo Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bicentennial booklet cover image (2003).</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/d4890980-afae-48f4-8f12-20cd6dda93e2/Concord-375th-parade-float.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Spring 2022 Opening of the Ralph Waldo Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson House float in Concord’s 375th Birthday parade (2010).</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/f6aa4e80-104e-4bd0-9c4c-578de34bb6db/Emerson-Barn-2020-restored.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Spring 2022 Opening of the Ralph Waldo Emerson House - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Restored Emerson Barn (2020). Photo by B. Ewen.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emersons-first-journey-to-europe</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson’s First Journey to Europe - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Jardin des Plantes ("Botanical Garden") in Paris, France.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/the-very-quotable-emerson</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Very Quotable Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Title page of an Emerson essay collection illustrated by John Steuart Curry (The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Illustrated Modern Library, 1944).</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/holiday-dinner-in-the-emerson-barn</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-20</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/96fa2e83-0955-45af-8411-77ffa058b4de/Emerson-Barn-holiday-table.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Holiday Dinner in the Emerson Barn</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/1738945123186-COMF5Q46RJE6CM1OO8YO/Emerson-Barn-holiday-hat.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Holiday Dinner in the Emerson Barn</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/1738945122402-5HLBQNTUON0P52QRTFFH/Emerson-Barn-holiday-trees.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Holiday Dinner in the Emerson Barn</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/december-was-an-eventful-month-for-emerson</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/881addea-25a3-4f4b-8cc2-af2ffee63721/winter-path.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - December Was an Eventful Month for Mr. Emerson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mr. Emerson’s garden on a snowy day. Photo by E. Emerson.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-and-the-atlantic-monthly</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6742847b5a0db278359b0744/f4d715e5-0a18-4c92-98b9-7eca67e632da/The_Atlantic_Monthly%2C_published_November_1857.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Lyceum - Emerson and The Atlantic Monthly - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cover of the first issue of The Atlantic Monthly, published in November 1857.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/the-divinity-school-address</loc>
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      <image:caption>Ralph Waldo &amp; Lidian Emerson with their children and grandchildren at the Emerson House in 1879. Standing, L-R: Edward Emerson, Edward Forbes, Ellen Emerson, Edith Forbes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cameron Forbes, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Don Forbes, Ralph Forbes. Seated, L-R: Annie Keyes Emerson, Charles Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes holding Waldo Forbes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yosemite National Park. Photo by M. Gordinier.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/ellen-tucker-emerson</loc>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Ellen Tucker Emerson by Elliot &amp; Fry, London 1873.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ellen Tucker Emerson in 1860.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-meets-lincoln</loc>
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      <image:caption>Abraham Lincoln as photographed by Alexander Gardner (believed to be November 8, 1863).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A lithograph of Lincoln hangs in the Emerson House.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/edward-waldo-emerson</loc>
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      <image:caption>Edward Waldo Emerson with his father, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and son, Charles Emerson, ca. 1876.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Frontispiece of the first edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Flower Fables.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/edith-emerson-and-thanksgiving</loc>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Edith Emerson &amp;amp; Thanksgiving - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of Edith Emerson by William Furness on the occasion of her marriage to William Hathaway Forbes. The painting hangs in the Emerson House parlor, where the wedding took place.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Edith Emerson &amp;amp; Thanksgiving - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Emerson House dining room as it looks today.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/thomas-carlyle-in-england</loc>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Thomas Carlyle in England - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Emerson’s cherished friend Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, historian, mathematician, and philosopher.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/lidian-jackson-emerson-2020</loc>
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      <image:caption>Lidian Jackson Emerson with her son Edward.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/ellen-louisa-tucker</loc>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - Ellen Louisa Tucker - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ellen Louisa Tucker Emerson, courtesy of the New England Historical Society.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-barn</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Emerson Barn - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Emerson Barn in 1943.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Emerson Barn - The Emerson Barn in 2018, before restoration.</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Emerson Barn - Lilacs in bloom by the barn in June 2018.</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Lyceum - The Emerson Barn - The Emerson Barn during restoration.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/emerson-marries-lydia-jackson</loc>
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      <image:caption>Ralph Waldo Emerson &amp; Lydia Jackson were wed in front of this fireplace in the parlor of the Edward Winslow House in Plymouth, MA (now known as the Mayflower House Museum).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title page of the first edition of Nature.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/the-american-scholar-2020</loc>
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      <image:caption>Engraved portrait of Emerson from a drawing by Sam W. Rowse.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/tumbledown-hall</loc>
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      <image:caption>Tumbledown Hall, from Concord Sketches by May Alcott</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/walden-published</loc>
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      <image:caption>Title page of the first edition of Walden.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://rwema.org/blog/happy-birthday-emerson</loc>
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      <image:caption>Today is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 217th birthday.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>While at Harvard, Emerson lived in the Hollis Hall dormitory.</image:caption>
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