the Thoreau Log.
19 March 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  No true and brave person will be content to live on such a footing with his fellow and himself as the laws of every household now require. The house is the very haunt and lair of our vice. I am impatient to withdraw myself from under its roof as an unclean spot. There is no circulation there; it is full of stagnant and mephitic vapors.
(Journal, 1:240)

Ralph Waldo Emerson notes in his journal that he sent a copy of his book Essays to “D. H Thoreau” and 47 other people. The inscription reads “Henry D. Thoreau, from his friend, R.W.E. 19 March 1841” (The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 7:546; Studies in the American Renaissance 1983, 161).

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