the Thoreau Log.
27 January 1842. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s son Waldo dies at the age of five of scarlet fever (The Days of Henry Thoreau, 136; The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:6-9). Emerson writes in his journal around this time:

  Then Henry Thoreau had been one of the family for the last year, & charmed Waldo by the variety of toys whistles boats popguns & all kinds of instrument which he could make & mend; & possessed his love & respect by the gentle firmness with which he always treated him.
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8:165)

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