Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her sister Lucy Jackson Brown:
Mr [Cornelius Conway] Felton was here too, yesterday—and we invited to meet them H. Thoreau—Rockwood H. [Hoar] & Mr [Barzillai?] Frost. So you see in the midst of hurried preparation for my journey I had to dine five gentlemen—give tea to two and also a room each at night.
(The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 73)
