Nantasket Beach, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Christopher Gore Ripley:
If you go to Concord to see Grandfather [Ezra Ripley] you will find in my study, Coleridges Lectures on Shakspeare (making vol 2 I believe, of Literary Remains). Then I have Aubrey; and Schlegel; and Wotton: or Henry Thoreau can probably tell where they are.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:426).
Concord, Mass. Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her husband Ralph Waldo:
Henry seems joyful when there is news from you . . . Henry says you gave up having his room partitioned—will it not be an improvement—to the house—even if not wanted for him—to have the room not a thoroughfare (The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 92)?
