the Thoreau Log.
23 July 1850. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Horace Greeley:

  The best thing we can think to do in these worst news of last night concerning Margaret Fuller, is to charge Mr Thoreau to go, on all our parts, & obtain on the wrecking ground all the intelligence &, if possible, any fragments of manuscript or other property. I know you will give him the best counsel & help: you, & Mr [Marcus] Spring,—& I shall cordially unite with you in any expense this calamity makes necessary.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:219)

Concord, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson advances Thoreau $70 to go to Fire Island (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s account books. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

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