Thoreau surveys land for Frances R. Gourgas and the Mill Dam Company (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 7, 9; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Thoreau also writes in his journal:
Moses Emerson, the kind and gentlemanly man who assisted and looked after me in Haverhill, said that a good horse was worth $75, and all above was fancy, and that when he saw a man driving a fast horse he expected he would fail soon.
