Free Mason Temple

This is one of the locations where lectures were given by Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the Free Masons are widespread as an organization, the audience that he typically addressed was located in Boston, Massachusetts during the beginning of the 1840s. There are no details provided about these places, other than the name of the city, state and nation. They are only mentioned as a place where Emerson did public speaking engagements.

England

England is a nation located northeast of the Continental United States. There are well over a dozen essays dedicated to England and the English in the book. This may well be because the American colonies were primarily controlled by England - although this use of the term America is ambiguous enough that it can be easily misleading. Readers will tend to know that the United States of America is the nation meant, but...