New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-14

whom Thoreau met When he was twenty-six
1si3) he made the acquaintance In New-fork OF
Horace Greeley who he wrote to his sister. rs
cheerfully in earnest. at his office OF all work,
hearty New Hampshire boy as one would wish 70
meet and says. Now be neighbory,' and believes
only or mainly, first in the Syvania Association,
somewhere IN Pennsylvania; ard. secondly ana
most OF all, In a association to go INTO opera
ton soon in New-Jersey. with which ne is con-
nected" Writing to Emerson In England Thoreau
said: "Mr. Alcott seems to have sat down for the
winter. He has got Plato and other books to read
He Is as argefeatured and hospitable to travel
ling thoughts and thinkers as ever; but with the
same Connecticut philosophy as ever. mingled with
what Is better II he would only stand upright ana
toe the line In the same letter occurs TINS rather
sinister characterization OF the. Rev Henry W.
Hudson: Hudson, TOO, has been here. with dark
shadow In the care OF him. and his desperate W.T.
so much indebted to the surface OF him.-wrinsins
out his words and swapping them off like dish
cloth; very remarkable, but not memorable
In a letter written from Fire Island on July 70.
1885, where he had gone TO secure If possible the
body of Margaret Fuller. Thoreau gives this ac-
count Of the details Of the tragedy by which the
Countess Osso, her husband and child were
drowned:
or were brought directly to their house, that the
hands p Being mostly in their nlghtc made
haste forscss The water coming In ,b at 9 3nSs
castle. the crew above il. doing what they could
Every wave lifted the forecastie roof and washed
many from to noon At food tide about tu S;a
when the ship broke up entirely, they came our Oh
the forecaste, and Margaret sat with her back TO
the foremost, with her hands on her knees ner
came and washed her aft The steward 90 had JUST
before taken her child and started for shore Both
drowned.
whitman, whom rhoreau met in New-Jersey In
1885, appeared to him to be 1.-The greatest Democrat
the world haB SEEN Kings and aristocracy go by
the board at once, they have long deserved to-
remarkably strong though coarse nature OF
sweet disposition and much priced by his friends
Though peculiar and rough in his exterior. his skin
(all over 90 red, he is essentially gentleman
am still somewhat in a quandary about him-feel
that he is essentially strange to me. at any rate
bu. I am surprised by the sight Of him. He is very
broad, but have said. not fine" After having
read some Of whitmans poems Thoreau wrote to
Blake OF him: I'VE ought TO rejoice greatly In him.
He occasionally suggests something little more
than human You can't confound him with the
other inhabitants Of Brooklyn NewYork. How
they must shudder when they read him. He Is
awfuy good"
As hitting complement to this admiration for
Whitman may be- given a Enthusiastically vgor-
GUS passage literary style:
As for style of writing, II one has anything to say
Il drops from him simply and directly as stone
falls to the ground. There are no two ways about
IT, but down IL comes, and he may stick In the
New ideas come into this world somewhat like fall.
ing me,eors. with a fash and an explosion, and
to polish the stone In It's descent TO give IT pc
cuar turn. and make II whistle tune, percnance,
would be OF use II Il were possible Your pol
lshed stuff turns out not to be meteorc' but Oh ths