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- GLC01751.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- June 30, 1858
- Author/Creator
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Title
- to Daniel Ricketson
- Place Written
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 11 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Thoreau writes to his good friend, a historian and poet, that he is about to take a trip to the White Mountains. He apologizes for not writing sooner. Muses on the nature of his friendships and refers to his "preaching" in the mode of Walden. " ... is it of any consequence to preach to an audience of men who can fail? - or who can be revived? ... If a man has speculated and failed, he will probably do these things again, in spite of you or me." Mentions his friendship with Channing [William Ellery] and states Channing visited and left a poem called "Near Home." Informs he went on an excursion with Blake, of Worcester, and mentions mutual acquaintances H. Scott and Watson.
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