[107] Channing more than once described to me Thoreau's disheveled
appearance as he came down the mountain the next morning, after rather
a comfortless night. He was carrying for valise a green leather
satchel that had been Charles Emerson's, having but recently been the
guest of both William and Waldo Emerson. In depicting the scene from
the Berkshire mountain, he recurred (in the _Week_) to the homesteads
of the Huguenots on Staten Island, where he had rambled the year
before this Berkshire experience, while living at William Emerson's
and giving lessons to his sons.
[108] This was ten times as many in eighteen months as the _Week_ sold
in five years.
[109] Mr. Greene lived in Oakland County.
[110] This fixes the date of the Worcester portrait,--June, 1856, two
years after the Rowse crayon.
[111] This "last discourse" was the long one on John Brown, now
included in Thoreau's _Miscellanies_, and formerly in the volume
beginning with "A Yankee in Canada."