the Thoreau Log.
22 August 1859.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The circles of the blue vervain flowers, now risen near to the top, show how far advanced the season is . . .

  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 . . .

(Journal, 12:289-290)

Boston, Mass. Hobart & Robbins writes to Thoreau:

Mr Henry D. Thoreaux Concord, Mass.

  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

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 555; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series IV): Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)

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