p.

Thoreau life are very
important because they
bring out the human &
family side of their lives
which to some people
it never seem they lacked.
It seems funny to be
building once more Mrs
Brown's house. Every in-
cident in its early
life being so familiar to
Mrs Watson & myself.
Mrs B was a great spur
to Thoreau - the building
of her house Mr Emerson's
chief friend. You
should have seen him
when he first came from
Europe, reading in the