Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Margaret Fuller:
I send you Henry Thoreau’s verses of the “Fisher” which you requested of him; and his lines “to the Mountains,” which he has been elaborating. He has also given me his new version of his lines on Friendship, which seem to me to be so correct & presentable, beside the high merit of two or three verses, that I believe I shall send them down to the printer with mine tomorrow presuming your consent, for you asked them, did you not? for this number… I have mislaid those translations of Orpheus you sent of Fernald’s, & do not find them tonight; but I do not think them valuable to print. H. D. T. reading the original said “They were not accurate;” & in these antiques, accuracy is the best merit.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:442)
