A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
All the morning was given to conversation in E’s [Ralph Waldo Emerson] study. After dinner we walked to Walden, and in the evening came Thoreau and Elizabeth Hoar and stayed till 10 o’clock. There was endlessly varied and miscellaneous discourse, which no man may well report.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 249)
