Dear friend,
I have your letter. Of course I am interested in everything about Thoreau and Emerson. My knowledge of Thoreau is confined to Walden and Civil Disobedience and some stray writings of his. Civil Disobedience was the work that gripped me. But I do not consider myself worthy enough for the purpose of identifying myself with any Thoreau Society.

George Winthrople, Esq.
Concord
Massachusetts