Page:Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau; a chapter in the history of a still-born book.djvu/79

 "I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul than a million unwise and frivolous!" No wonder that James Munroe had not cellar-room for the books of such a "stuttering, blundering clod-hopper."—.]

After reading the Week the Michigan man wished to share the good tidings of great joy with others. There was a distant relation, an upright member of an orthodox sect; he must have a copy of the Week: it may show him how fast asleep he is! The book was mailed to the somnolent saint from Thoreau direct; but it had been as well to have sent a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible.

My aged friend chuckles when he tells you that this very copy of the Week was subsequently borrowed by