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The good & beautiful, as the best means. It is very valuable of establishing it, as showing his [investment, earnestness ?] & sincerity in persuing the highest ends. I read the translation of [Smiel's ?] Journal you speak of several years ago & was a good deal interested in it, No, Smiel himself did not make the same deep impression on me that Thoreau does, partly doubtless, because I was not personally acquainted with him, & partly, perhaps, because he was a less healthy thinker. The translation I seem to remember as very beautiful, & I presume you are enjoying it. I am considerably occupied at present, for so leisurely a worker as I am, in preparing "Autumn" for Thoreau's Journal, wh I hope may be published this year. Sincerely Yours, H.G.O. Blake
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75 West St. Worcester March 17, 1892. Mr. Mortimer, Dear Sir, Dr. Jones, the author of "Thoreau, a Glimpse", sent that pamphlet to me a long time ago, & I have had considerable correspondence with him. He has also called upon me here in Worcester. He is a very enthusiastic admirer of Thoreau, as you see. The Bibliography you speak of, he kindly furnished in an improved form as an appendix to a little pocket vol. of selections from Thoreau's printed books, & called 'Thoreau's Thoughts', wh. I edited, & wh. was published in the fall of 1890. I think you wd. be interested to see that vol. Thoreau's course with regard to Capt. John Brown was very heroic & admirable, but was in episode, nothing than an incident in his [ ?] path, wh, was not so much to contend directly against what is wrong & ugly, as to find out & enjoy
