Contains 163 letters that provide an intimate view of author's path from college student to published author. This title documents author's friendships with college classmates and his search for work after graduation, while letters to his brother and sisters reveal warm, playful relationships among the siblings. "The angles of vision opened by Hudspeth's Princeton Correspondence allow us to see Henry Thoreau in richly textured ways we never could have imagined.""---Wesley T. Mott, Resources for American Literary Study