Ellen Sewall writes in her diary:
Came a kind letter from Mrs. Thoreau to mother asking a visit from Edmund and expressing a desire that I should visit her this summer also. How little does she imagine the reasons I have for declining utterly any such proposal. Mother wrote her a kind refusal of her invitation for Edmund on account of his being engaged in a school at present.
(Transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods; MS, private owner)
