I should have answered you earlier if a wood merchant whom I engaged had kept his appointment. Measuring on Mr. Hubbard’s plans of ’36 and ’52, which I enlarged, [word] the whole area wanted for a cemetery 16 acres & 114 rods. This includes a path one rod wide on the north side of the wood next to the meadow, and is all of the Brown Farm north of the New Road, except the meadow of about 7 acres and a small triangle of about a dozen rods next to the Agricultural Land. The above result is probably accurate within half an acre; nearer I cannot come with certainty without a resurvey.

  9 acres & 9 rods are woodland, whose value I have got Anthony Wright, an old Farmer & now measurer of wood at the Depot, to assist me in determining. This is the result

  Oak chiefly 4A 53rd 156 Cords at $2.75 cord standing
                                      large & small 429

  White & Pitch Pine 3A 30rd 143½ Cords 2 287

  Pitch Pine 146rd 16½ Cords 2 41 25

  Young P Pine 100rd 5 cord 2 10

                          $767 25

  Merchantable green oak wood, piled on the cars, brings

  here 4.75 pr cord.

  Pitch pine 4.25

  White 2.50

  An acquaintance in Boston applied to me last October for a small farm in Concord, and the small amount of land 7 the want of a good house may prevent his thinking of the Dutch House place, & besides circumstances have transpired which I fear will prevent his coming here; however I will inform him at once that it is on the market. I do not know about the state of his funds, only that he was in no hurry, though in earnest, & limited me to $2000.

  All well

  Yours

  Henry D. Thoreau