Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his wife, Lidian Emerson:
It is still doubtful if the Clarkes come but I shall add the barn room if they do & Thoreau is to build it & I am sorry you are not here to instruct . . . Henry T. has returned safe from Katahdin, after the finest adventures in batteaus, lakes, & mountains.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:348)
