For the first time, the extensive personal journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are here made available in digital format, having been scanned and edited by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute and presented in eBook Acrobat Reader files. This edition, edited by Richard Geldard, PhD, was first published in 1904-14 in ten volumes, comprising over 5,000 pages of material and edited by Emerson's son Edward. The journals cover most of Emerson's life, from 1820, when he was only 16 to 1876, when, at age 73, he stopped writing in his journal. The journals contain his personal views and much of the material found in his essays and lectures as initial notes and observations. The journals are a rich and varied history of the life and thought of America's Founding Thinker.