Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
7 P.M., river is one and three eighths above summer level (Journal, 13:385-386).
North Elba, N.Y. R.J. Hinton reads Thoreau’s “The Last Days of John Brown” at the John Brown Memorial Celebration (The Liberator, vol. 30, no. 30 (27 July 1860):118).
