Thoreau writes in his journal:
Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:
H. D. Thoreau and his sister S. arrived home this noon from a visit to Worcester. Passed a part of the afternoon on the river with H. D. T. in his little boat,—discussed [William Ellery] Channing part of the time. Took tea and spent the evening at Mr. T’s. (Item) H. D. T. says buy “Margaret.”
Ricketson gives Thoreau’s mother a copy of Memoir of Mary L. Ware by Edward B. Hall with the inscription, “To Henry D. Thoreau’s mother, with the kind regards of the their friend, Danl. Ricketson, Concord, June, 19th 1856” (Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-century American Literature, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.).