Philadelphia, Penn. Thoreau writes in his journal:
To Philadelphia. 7 A.M., to Boston; 9 A.M., Boston to New York, by express train, land route . . .
Reached Canal Street at 5 P.M., or candle-light.
Started for Philadelphia from foot of Liberty Street at 6 P.M. via Newark, etc., etc., Bordentown, etc., etc., Camden Ferry, to Philadelphia, all in the dark . . . Arrive at 10 P.M.; four hours from New York, thirteen from Boston, fifteen from Concord. Put up at Jones’s Exchange Hotel, 77 Dock Street; lodgings thirty-seven and a half cents, meals separate . . .
Thoreau also writes to C. B. Bernard:
I expect to lecture in Hamilton C. W. [Canada West], once or twice during the first week of January. In that case, how soon after (or before) that week will you hear me in Akron? My subject will
Boston, Mass. A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
E. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] tells me that Thoreau left today for Philadelphia to lecture there (Studies in the American Renaissance 1996, 256; Amos Bronson Alcott papers (MS Am 1130.9-1130.12), Houghton Library, Harvard University).
Boston [or Concord?], Mass. Franklin B. Sanborn writes in his journal:
He [A. Bronson Alcott] spoke of Annie [Ariana (Walker) Sanborn]—of his interest in her, or her reading Thoreau’s book at his suggestion; saying that he had her criticism on it in a note (Transcendental Climate, 210).
Philadelphia, Penn. The Daily Pennsylvanian advertises Thoreau’s upcoming lecture.
