Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Margaret Fuller:
Next Wednesday the club of clubs [the Transcendental Club] meet at my house. Will you not come & see me & inspire our reptile wits. Mr [George] Ripley said he should like to bring you. I have asked Mrs Ripley & Sarah Clark. Henry Hedge, Theodore Parker, [A. Bronson] Alcott, & Henry Thoreau will certainly be here.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:293)
