Thoreau writes to James Munroe & Co. at Ralph Waldo Emerson’s request:
In a letter from R. W. Emerson, which I received this morning, he requests me to send him Charles Lane’s Dials. Three bound vols accompany this letter to you—”The fourth.” to quote his own words, “is in unbound numbers at J Munroe & Co’s shop, received there in a parcel to my address a day or two before I sailed, and which I forgot to carry to Concord—It is certainly there, was opened by me, & left.”
—And he wishes me to ask you to “enclose all four vols. to Chapman” for him (Emerson).
If all is right, will you please say so to the express-man—or at any rate give me an opportunity to look for the fourth vol, if it is missing.
I may as well inform you that I do not intend to print my book* anywhere immediately.
Yrs Respectfully
Henry Thoreau
“Thoreau had decided on further revision of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers after its unsuccessful round of the publishers.”
*A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
