Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Margaret Fuller:
Here are two or three on Henry Thoreau’s to fill spaces. “Nature resumes her dawn each day” ought to stand by itself for its merit: He is trying to give you a piece of prose out of his “Brave Men,” an Essay which he read to Caroline [Sturgis Tappan] . . . Thoreau never received & so never sent back the proofs which you think were sent to him. There is one blunder in his poem for which I am accountable. He tells me that he wrote it “ports,” & I always read & copied it posts. I am very sorry.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:315-17)
