Show EMERSONS EMERSON S MEMORY AT FAULT had at times almost entire lack of remembrance emerson was a notable sufferer from the vagaries of memory ills bl ogra pher relates that he met him one day in boston apparently at a loss tor for something aar asked him where he was going to dine said emerson with a very old and dear friend I 1 know where she lives but I 1 hope she we won t ask me her name and then he proceeded to describe her as the mother of the wife of the young man the tall man who speaks so well and so on until his interlocutor guessed to whom be he was referring even the names of common objects often tailed failed him completely on one occasion when he wanted an la he be said I 1 can f tell its name but I 1 can tell its history strangers take it away this falling failing of emerson led to a pathetic scene when he attended longfellow s funer 11 and remarked as he gazed at the coffin he ile was a sweet ani and beautiful soul but I 1 have entirely forgotten bis his name |