I am glad your “Walden” is coming out. I shall announce it at once, whether Ticknor does or not.

  I am in no hurry now about your Miscellanies; take your time, select a good title, and prepare your articles deliberately and finally. Then if Ticknor will give you something worth having, let him have this too; if proffering it to him is to glut your market, let it come to me. But take your time. I was only thinking you were hybernating when you ought to be doing something. I referred (without naming you) to your ‘Walden’ experience in my lecture on “Self-Culture,” with which I have bored every so many audiences. This episode excited much interest and I have repeatedly been asked who it is that I refer to.

Yours,

Horace Greeley.

P.S. You must know Miss Elizabeth Hoar, whereas I hardly do. Now I have agreed to edit Margaret’s works, and I want of Elizabeth a letter or memorandum of personal recollections of Margaret and her ideas. Can’t you ask her to write it for me?

Yours,

H. G.