. Backgrounds of literature. EMERSON AND CONCORD of scholars and teachers is so intimately asso-ciated that to think of Nature and Wood-notes is to see Concord lying in quiet beautyin a tranquil New England landscape. Therewere Emersons in the pulpit in Ipswich andMendon, but it is upon Peter Bulkeley, grand-father at the seventh remove of Ralph Waldo,that attention rests as typical ancestor. Hewas descended, one of the oldest of the colonialchronicles tells us, from an honorable family ofBedfordshire; educated at St. Johns College,Cambridge, of the rich tone of whose secondquadrangle Ruskin s
. Backgrounds of literature. EMERSON AND CONCORD of scholars and teachers is so intimately asso-ciated that to think of Nature and Wood-notes is to see Concord lying in quiet beautyin a tranquil New England landscape. Therewere Emersons in the pulpit in Ipswich andMendon, but it is upon Peter Bulkeley, grand-father at the seventh remove of Ralph Waldo,that attention rests as typical ancestor. Hewas descended, one of the oldest of the colonialchronicles tells us, from an honorable family ofBedfordshire; educated at St. Johns College,Cambridge, of the rich tone of whose secondquadrangle Ruskin spoke with enthusiasm; wasgiven a goodly benefice, but found himself laterunable to conform to the services of the EnglishChurch; came to New England in 1635, andafter a brief stay in Cambridge carried a goodNumber of Planters with him, up further intothe Woods, where they gathered the TwelfthChurch, then formed in the Colony, and calFdthe Town by the name of Concord. This pioneer scholar is described as a well-read person, a
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