Thoreau’s aunt Maria writes to Prudence Ward:
Last week some Indians from the Rocky Mountains exhibited here. Henry was much gratified, you know he has quite a passion for Indians . . .
I am sorry you were not at home when H—was in Cohasset. You will be pleased to hear Henry give a description of that tour, sleeping in a lighthouse etc.,—but I believe it was projected before the shipwreck which you appear to think was the occasion of it.
As for Brother’s new house, we shall not get into it this winter, but hope to early in the spring. The tenants were not obliged to move till it was too late to do anything to it, for as you suppose, it will need considerable alteration, as for Henry he never liked the idea of moving at all tho it is probably he will have the pleasantes[t] and most convenient room in the house that he has ever had yet.