Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . u, JMncrson, GeorgeWilliam Curtis, and sympathetic friends. The bed. chair, and tableused at the Walden hut are in the Concord Antiquarian Societyskeeping. Thoreaus sister, was a superior and able woman,and it is a joy to the present writer that from her he learned his 46 CONCORD Greek alphabet. (Walden; A Week on the Concord and Mer-rimack Rivers; Cape Cod; etc.) Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917). The death of W. , the poet, left Mr. Sanborn the last leaf on the Concord
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . u, JMncrson, GeorgeWilliam Curtis, and sympathetic friends. The bed. chair, and tableused at the Walden hut are in the Concord Antiquarian Societyskeeping. Thoreaus sister, was a superior and able woman,and it is a joy to the present writer that from her he learned his 46 CONCORD Greek alphabet. (Walden; A Week on the Concord and Mer-rimack Rivers; Cape Cod; etc.) Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917). The death of W. , the poet, left Mr. Sanborn the last leaf on the Concordtree. His house is on Elm Street, leading from Main Street. As abiographer of several of the most eminent Concord names, he may-be said to hold a brief for Concord and all that it represents. William Ellery Channing (1818-1902). The poet and recluse,making his wardrobe last beyond the hopes of his friends, to useMr, Sanborns words, was a nephew of the Rev. William ElleryChanning, and the brother-in-law of Margaret Fuller. He livedopposite Thoreaus last home, and died in his friend Sanborns HOME OF HENRY DAVID THOREAUCONCORD (Poems of Years. Edited by F. B. Sanborn; Tho-reau, the Poet-Naturalist.) Channings house was, early in hisConcord career, the home of Sanborn, and John Brown was hereentertained by him. Later on this spot was the home of FredericHudson (1819-1875), where, after a connection of thirty years withthe New York Herald, he came to end his days. (Journalismin Ihc United States, 1670-1S72.) George William Curtis (i8-4-i892) and his brother, Burrill Cur-tis, after their rather playful experience at Brook Farm, went toConcord in , first to the farm of Captain Nathan Barrett, a milesouth of the village, on Punkatasset Mill, and then to the farm ofEdmund Hosmer, about a mile from I^mersons house, .iongother Brook Farmers at Concord were George P. Bradford, Minot CONCORD 47 Pratt, and Mrs. Almira Barlow. The most eminent outsider iden-tified wit
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