Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:
I walked this P.M. with Thoreau to Walden Pond land the woods around. Took tea with T. and called upon Channing [William Ellery Channing] and smoked a pipe with him; returned to Thoreau’s, met Edmund Hosmer, an intelligent farmer, there. Talked on religious faith, &c., returned to Mr. Alcott’s [A. Bronson Alcott] late in the evening.
