the Thoreau Log.
31 August 1860. Lowell, Mass.

Charles P. Ricker writes to Thoreau:

Mr. Thoreau:

Dear Sir:

  By the instructions of our Committee I am requested to write, that we have two lectures on the Sabbath.

  If you could give us two lectures instead of one for the terms you state we shall be happy to hear you. Otherwise we shall be obliged to wait till we gain a stronger hold on the public mind, and chiefly increase or better our financial condition.

  Please answer if possible by return of mail.

Yours Respectfully

Charles P. Ricker

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 588-589; MS, Henry David Thoreau (Series IV). Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)

Thoreau responds 31 August 1860.

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