Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Margaret Fuller:
Henry Thoreau’s paper on Carlyle is printed in Graham’s Magazine: and his Book, ‘Excursion on Concord & Merrimack rivers’ will soon be ready. Admirable, though Ellery rejects it altogether. Mrs Ripley & other members of the opposition came down the other night to hear Henry’s account of his housekeeping at Walden Pond, which he read as a lecture, and were charmed with the witty wisdom which ran through it all.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:377-378)
Bronson Alcott visits Thoreau at Walden Pond (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 186).
