A Rambler's Lease by Bradford Torrey.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.

Inscribed: "Charles Wellington Stone from his much attached friend Walton Ricketson Xmas 1889"

This is a Sarah Wyman Whitman designed book.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Walton Ricketson, the son of Thoreau's New Bedford friend Daniel Ricketon, who as a boy had known Thoreau as a frequent visitor in his home, year later made a bust of Thoreau, the original of which is now in the Concord Free Public Library.