The Album and the Encyclopedia

Seems to be a period of climb-downs, step-backs and re-states, for me...

My conclusion that the Two Worlds Album was all that remained of a more ambitious encyclopedia project may be incorrect. As this advert from The Two Worlds of October 1896 makes clear, the Album is indeed the Album, as such, published under the aegis of The Two Worlds, with Emma and WIlliam (who died in November of 1894, implying this text was a long time in preparation) as editors.

While this doesn't prove that the Encyclopedia didn't become the less ambitious Album (and what would prove that, or disprove it, short of a manuscript copy of the Encyclopedia, or something similar), it makes it less likely, for sure, that the two documents are part and parcel of one of Emma's projects, and more likely that, when Emma died, she left behind some portion of what would have been a truly interesting work.