Ellen Tucker Emerson writes to her sister, Edith:
I forgot to tell you. I went to Mr Thoreau’s to carry him a map. He said he was going to Minnesota tomorrow, (and Father says it is all a mistake that he is to send him. Mr T. goes at his own expense, tell Cousin Mary) and Horace Mann with him, so I asked him to dine and he accepted. Father said he should buy Mr Minot’s piece today. The dinner talk was 1/2 Nat. Hist. and 1/2 politics.
(The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, 1:250)
