Thoreau writes to James Russell Lowell on 23 January 1858:
The most available paper which I have is an account of an excursion into the Maine woods in ’53; the subjects of which are the Moose, the Pine Tree & the Indian. Mr. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson could tell you about it, for I remember reading it to his family, after having read it as a lecture to my townsmen.
