Self-Reliance that would become "Self-Reliance" was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed!" From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in "Self-Reliance" and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical
Messenger and Advocate "Messenger and Advocate". Messenger and Advocate The Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, often shortened to Messenger and Advocate, was an early Latter Day Saint monthly newspaper published in Kirtland, Ohio, from October 1834 to September 1837. It was the successor to "The Evening and the Morning Star" and the predecessor to the "Elders' Journal". The "Messenger and Advocate" was established after a mob had destroyed the printing press of "The Evening and the Morning Star" in Independence, Missouri, on July 20, 1833, causing the "Star" to relocate to Kirtland. After a brief run, the "Star" was discontinued in favor