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AET. 25.] TO R. W. EMERSON. 69 request Thoreau, who was punctuality itself, replied at once.

TO E. W. EMERSON (AT NEW YORK). , February 15, 1843.

—I got your letters, one yesterday and the other to-day, and they have made me quite happy. As a packet is to go in the morning, I will give you a hasty account of the &quot;Dial.&quot; I called on Mr. Lane this afternoon, and brought away, together with an abundance of good-will, first, a bulky catalogue of books without commentary,—some eight hundred, I think he told me, with an introduction filling one sheet,—ten or a dozen pages, say, though I have only glanced at them; second,