Ellen Sewall writes to her father Edmund Quincy Sewall Sr. on 31 July:
Grandmother’s [Prudence Bird Ward] foot has been quite troublesome again since I came, but is now better. It is really discouraging that it should keep breaking out so. She took a nice ride Monday. Aunt [Prudence Ward] and I accompanied her, with Henry Thoreau for driver. Dear grandmother seemed to enjoy it very much.
(transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Lincoln, Mass.; MS, private owner)
