Thoreau writes to Elijah Wood:
I mentioned to you that Mr. [Michael] Flannery had given me an order on you for ¾ of his wages. I have agreed with him that that arrangement shall not begin to take effect until the first of March 1854.
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Henry D. Thoreau
“Michael Flannery was an Irish immigrant Thoreau befriended. Often times farmers would employ Irish residents to do miscellaneous jobs.”
