A good many allusions to her will be found in his life and in his letters to Carlyle.
After she died and shortly before his own death he appeared at my brother's house one day with a manuscript which he had handed to the Judge.

He had gone over his diary for a great many years and extracted and copied everything in it which related to her.
He used to read lectures to the Lyceum, and in reading his books now I find a great many passages which I remember to have heard him read in my youthful days.

In one of his lectures upon Plato, he said that he turned everything to the use of his philosophy, that "wife, children and friends were all ground into paint"-- alluding to Washington Allston's story of the Paint King who married a lovely maiden that he might make paint of the beautiful color of her cheeks.
A worthy farmer's wife in the audience took this literally, and left the room in high dudgeon.

She said she thought Waldo Emerson might be in better business than holding up to the people of Concord the example of a wicked man who ground his wife and children into paint.
In Emerson's later days he was undoubtedly a powerful educational influence in the town.

He was a man of much public spirit.
In his philosophy his "soul was like a star and dwelt apart." But he had a heart full of human affections.