the Thoreau Log.
4 June 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys a meadow and woodlots for John Hosmer (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 8; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Surveying for J. Hosmer [John Hosmer] . . . Anthony Wright says that he used to get slippery elm bark from a place southwest of Wetherbee’s Mill, about ten rods south of the brook . . .
(Journal, 8:364-365)

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