Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
Riding to the factory, I see the leaves of corn, planted thick for fodder, so rolled by the drought that I mistook one row in grass for some kind of rush or else reed, small and terete . . .
Boston, Mass. Hobart & Robbins writes to Thoreau:
Please send by return Express 6 lbs best Black Lead & Enclosed please find Nine Dollars to pay for the same—
Send a receipt.
Yrs Resp’y &c
Hobart & Robbins