What were Henrys next steps after Walden?
Henry left Walden Pond on September 6th, 1847 and moved into the Emerson home to help manage the household while Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured throughout England. Henry would also expand his public lecturing in the 1850s. In the following years, several of his works were published, including “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, “Resistance to Civil Government,” “Slavery in Massachusetts,” and “A Plea for Captain John Brown.” Henry continued to be an active voice for the philosophy of Transcendentalism and for social principles, such as the abolition of slavery. He also traveled throughout New England, making memorable trips to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Canadian province Quebec, the backwoods of Maine, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and finally traveling to Minnesota for his health. In his later years, Henry refined his studies of nature to a more scientific methodology. He made detailed drawings and collected specimens for local botany li
