James Lorin Chapin writes in his journal:
Another pleasant day. Came home in the morning stopping in town to see Mr. Henry D. Thoreau and see if he would go and lecture before the Lyceum at Lincoln to morrow evening. he could not go and gave as a reason ill health. Said he would go at some future time.
(Concord Saunterer, 15, no. 3 (December 1984):23)
