Letters to Various Persons Author:Henry David Thoreau In respectful admiration of Thoreau and as an honor to their good friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the Transcendentalist movement in America, gathered these letters from the original manuscripts to form this wonderful volume replete with very personal encounters with the mind of personality one of the period's most revered writers. Severa... more »l previously unpublished poems are included at the rear of the volume.« less