The Infinitude of the Private Man: Emerson's Presence in Western New York, 1851-1961, by Sallee Fox Engstrom. Peter Lang, 1997. 159 pp. Green and illustrated hardcover. In nearly new condition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Robert Richardson on the front flyleaf, accompanied by a separate note. This book relates Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1851-1861 lecturing in Western New York state to the reform movements and other "enthusiasms" rampant in this region at this time. A particular influence is seen through portions of an eighteen-year correspondence between Emerson and one Western New York woman with whom he became acquainteed in 1850.