Margaret Fuller writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
My brother Richard, who, having utterly relucted from commerce and the city, is now bent on entering college as Sophomore next February. He wants to be with someone capable of fitting him, to board with some farmer the while at a low rate, and chip wood &c for exercise! He has not been able to make such arrangements as he wished at Lancaster and other places to which he is recommended, and I have thought that Henry Thoreau, might be willing to constitute himself his teacher, (for I suppose even those who can live on board nails may sometimes wish to earn a little money) and that some farmer in Concord might afford the desired hospitium. I should like to have Richard in the Concord air; he is a fine, manly youth, and my chief hope. Let him talk with Henry T. if there is any chance of his taking him, but do not trouble yourself with hospitality or care. he can pass the night at the tavern (if he can come to C.) look out quarters for himself… Henry T’s verses. = I have kept “The fisher boy”; that copy was for myself, was it not?
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:449 note)
