the Thoreau Log.
14 April 1847. Concord, Mass.

Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Our proposed meeting of gentlemen disposed to Print a Journal, as a successor to the Dial, convened this morning at [Ralph Waldo] Emerson’s, and discussed the subject all day. The company consisted of the following persons:

1 Emerson
2 Parker
3 Channing
4 Sumner
5 Cabot
6 Stone
7 Clarke (J. F.)
8 Weiss
9 Stetson
10 Dwight
11 Thoreau
12 Alcott

(A. Bronson Alcott papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal on 15 April:

  Yesterday Theodore Parker, W. H. Channing, Charles Sumner, Alcott, Thoreau, Elliot Cabot, Dwight, Stone, Weiss, J. F. Clarke, Stetson, & Mr Arrington of Texas spent the day with me & discussed the project of the journal. G. P. Bradford & I made fourteen.*
(The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10:54)

* A. Bronson Alcott, Alfred W. Arrington, George Partridge Bradford, James Elliot Cabot, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, John Sullivan Dwight, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Caleb Stetson, Thomas Treadwell Stone, Charles Sumner, Thoreau, and John Weiss (JMN, 10:54 n201).

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