His many close acquaintances included Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian (at that time only a boy).

• 他很多的密友中包括了埃勒里·钱宁、拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默、玛格丽特·福勒、布朗森·奥尔科特、纳撒尼尔·霍桑以及他的儿子朱利安（当时只是个男童）。