Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—By Great Meadows and Bedford meadows to Carlisle Bridge; back by Carlisle and Concord side across lots to schoolhouse . . . We did not come to a fence or wall for about four miles this afternoon . . .
Concord, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to George Partridge Bradford in London, England:
The House of Lords have most unseasonably reversed Lord Campbell’s copyright interpretations; bad for Thoreau, bad for me, yet I wish it may drive us to granting foreign copyright which would no doubt restore this Eng. privilege. All American kind are delighted with “Walden” as far as they have dared to say, The little pond sinks in these very days as tremulous at its human fame. I do not know if the book has come to you yet;—but it is cheerful, sparkling, readable, with all kinds of merits, & rising sometimes to very great heights. We account Henry the undoubted King of all American lions. He is walking up & down Concord, firm-looking, but in a tremble of great expectation.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:459-460)
