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 2ET.30.] EMERSON TO THOREAU. 149

friendliness and hospitality ; has a school of six teen children, one lady as matron, then Oldham. That is all the household. They looked just comfortable.&quot;

&quot; Lane instructed me to ask you to forward his Dials to him, which must be done, if you can find them. Three bound volumes are among his books in my library. The fourth volume 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 must be claimed without delay. It is certainly there, was opened by me and left ; and they can inclose all four vol umes to Chapman for me.&quot;

This would indicate that he had not lost in terest in the days and events of his American sojourn, unpleasant as some of these must have been to the methodical, prosaic English man.

While at Walclen, Thoreau wrote but few let ters ; there is, however, a brief correspondence with Mr. J. E. Cabot, then an active naturalist, cooperating with Agassiz in his work on the American fishes, who had requested Thoreau to procure certain species from Concord. The let ters were written from the cabin at Walden, and it is this same structure that figures in the letters from Thoreau to Emerson in England,