He was highly respected always.

But the people were at first puzzled by him.

His life was somewhat secluded.

He spent his days in study and in solitary walks.

Until Mrs.Ripley came to the old manse, about 1846, Emerson had, I think, no intimate friend outside of his own household, except my sister Elizabeth, who had been betrothed to his brother Charles, and was as a sister to Emerson until her death in 1878.