“ … I wish you to know that I have Dolon in black & white, & that I account Charles K a true genius: his writing fills me with joy, so simple so subtle & so strong is it. There are sentences in Dolon worth the printing the Dial that they may go forth."—RWE to Margaret Fuller, June 9, 1842 “Charles Newcomb … proves the rich possibilities in the soil, tho’ his result is zero.”—RWE to Caroline Sturgis Tappan, October 13, 1857 “Thanks for your note … & for the surprising news of St. Charles—I had thought he would content himself with dreaming, that is creating his Europe, without descending to the vulgar method of eyes. But he actually went to war, & why not now to London? But being there, I doubt his early return. Nothing but bad news from his bankers would bring him home, him for whom old civilization has an endless charm, & America onl[y] a solitude.”—RWE to Benjamin B. Wiley, December 29, 1871
All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library