Note 75 — III FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS (continued 2)

B. B. Wiley, then of Providence, since of Chicago (deceased), had written to Thoreau, September 4, for the Week, which the author was then selling on his own account, having bought back the unsalable first edition from his publisher, Munroe. In a letter of October 31, to which the above is a reply, he mentions taking a walk with Charles Newcomb, then of Providence, since of London and Paris, now dead,—a Dial contributor, and a special friend of Emerson; then inquires about Confucius, the Hindoo philosophers, and Swedenborg.