Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—To E. Hubbard’s Wood. Goodwin tells me that Therien, who live in a shanty of his own building and alone in Lincoln, uses for a drink only checkerberry-tea . . .
Saw Abel Brooks there [Hubbard’s Wood] with a half-bushel basket on his arm . . .
A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Evening, at Town Hall. A meeting called there to make arrangements for celebrating by appropriate services the day of Capt. Brown’s execution. Simon Brown, Dr. Bartlett, Keyes, Emerson, and Thoreau address the meeting, and Emerson, Thoreau, Brown, and Keyes are chosen a committee to prepare the services proper for the occasion. Sanborn is present also. Thoreau has taken a prominent part in this movement, and arranged for it chiefly.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 322)
