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Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreaus aunt]Henry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?   Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Source: Attributed to RALPH WALDO EMERSON and Henry David Thoreau.Arthur Samuel Jones, Thoreaus Incarceration [As Told by His Jailer], p. 15 .This exchange was supposed to have taken place on July 23 or 24, 1846, in the Concord, Massachusetts, jail where Thoreau was placed for nonpayment of poll taxes. There are many versions of this story, but Thoreaus account does not mention a visit by Emerson, in his Reform Papers, ed. Wendell Glick, pp. 7984 , so it is probably apocryphal. · This quote is tagged Uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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