Thoreau surveys a woodlot for Beck Stow (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11).
Thoreau also writes in his journal:
. . . At Beck Stow’s, surveying, thinking to step upon a leafy shore from a rail, I got into water more than a foot deep and had to wring my stockings out; but this is anticipating.
Thoreau writes in his journal on 20 October: