Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her husband Ralph Waldo:
Henry liked the Lecture well enough, but declareth that the more obstruse a discourse is “the more popular will it be”—which proposition I report to you as “Henry’s last”—paradox. He gives some good reasons withal—which the reporter has not time to recal. Has any one told you that Moses Prichard’s lecture was very good indeed? at least in Henry’s opinion who is the only person I have heard speak of it . . . Henry lectures the week after next on Sir Walter R.
(Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 122-123)
