Edmund Quincy Sewall Jr. writes in his journal:
After supper Mr John and I went to the red bridge. The railing was all cut over with names many of which were effaced by time and weather. I saw Ellen’s name cut in the wood between the initials of Mr J. and Mr. H Thoreau which bore date 1830 and ‘35. Mr Henry’s initials was cut very neatly and deep.
(MS, “E. Q. Sewall Diary,” Sewall Family papers. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.)
