A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Thoreau rode with me to Cambridge, and we passed the forenoon in Harvard Library. I looked at the compartment of English Poetry (of the Elizabethan age), but found nothing of worth to bring home. T. dined with me, and took from my library for perusal “Rei Rusticae Auctores Latini Veteres: Cato, Columella, Varro & Palladius,” for which I paid a couple of shillings at the London book-stalls, and am glad to find so good a reader for it.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 252-253)
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Collections of the New York Historical Society, volume 11, part 1, and Travels into North America by Pehr Kalm, volumes 1, 2, and 3 from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 290).
Boston, Mass. Thoreau checks out Principles of Zoölogy by Louis Agassiz and Augustus A. Gould and The animal kingdom, arranged in conformity with its organization by Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Cuvier from the Boston Society of Natural History.
(Emerson Society Quarterly, no. 24 (March 1952):24)
