Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Margaret Fuller:
Henry Thoreau has been showing me triumphantly how much cheaper & every way wiser it would be to publish the book [Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes] ourselves paying the booksellers only a simple commission for vending it & conducting personally the correspondence with distant booksellers;—but such heroisms are not for me this spring.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:250)
