the Thoreau Log.
20 November 1850.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Horace Hosmer was picking out to-day half a bushel or more of a different and better kind of cranberry, as he thought, separating them from the rest… Desor, who has been among the Indians at Lake Superior this summer, told me the other day that they had a particular name for each species of tree, as of the maple, but they had but one word for flowers; they did not distinguish the species of the last
(Journal, 2:105-106)

Portland, Maine. Josiah Pierce, Jr., writes to Thoreau:

Dear Sir,

  You may perhaps believe that I am writing to you from Ireland and not from Portland, making a blunder even in the date of the letter, when you read that this is for the purpose of apologizing for and correcting another error—I intended and ought to have designated the evening of January 15th and not of January 8th or 10th, as that on which we hoped to hear a lecture from you.

  With the wish that this newly appointed time, the fifteenth of January next, maybe equally acceptable to you,

  I am With great respect, Yours truly

  J. Pierce, Jr

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 2:106)

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