Letters to Various Persons Author:Henry David Thoreau General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: Houghton, Osgood Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Then will 'the callers ask, Where is B ? He is in his sugar-camp on the mountain-side. Let the world await him. Then will the little boys bless you, and the great boys too, for such sugar is the origin of many condiments, -- B ians in the shops of Worcester, of new form, with their mottos wrapped up in them. Shall men taste only the sweetness of the maple and the cane, the coming year ? A walk over the crust to Asnybumskit, standing there in its inviting simplicity, is tempting to think of, -- making a fire on the snow under some rock! The very poverty of outward nature implies an inward wealth in the walker. What a Golconda is he conversant with, thawing his fingers over such a blaze! But, -- but Have you read the new poem, " The Angel in the House " ? Perhaps you will find it good for you. H. D. T. TO MR. B. Concord, May 21, 1866. Mr. B : -- I have not for a long time been putting such thoughts together as I should like to read to the company you speak of. I have enough of that sort to say, or even read, but not time now toarrange it. Something I have prepared might prove for their entertainment or refreshment perchance ; but I would not like to have a hat carried round for it. I have just been reading some papers to see if they would do for your company; but though I thought pretty well of them as long as I read them to myself, when I got an auditor to try them on, I felt that they would not answer. How could I let you drum up a company to hear them ? In fine, what I have is either too scattered or loosely arranged, or too light, or else is too scien...« less