the Thoreau Log.
5 December 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Very cold last night. Probably river skimmed over in some places. The damp snow with water beneath (in all five or six inches deep and not drifted, notwithstanding the wind) is frozen solid . . .
(Journal, 7:78-79)

Thoreau also writes to Charles Sumner:

Dear Sir,

  Allow me to thank you once more for the Report of Sittgreaves, the Patent Office 2d part, and on Emigrants Ships.

  At this rate there will be one department in my library, and not the smallest one, which I may call the Sumnerian—

Yrs sincerely

Henry D. Thoreau.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 353)

Providence, R.I. The Providence Bulletin, Providence Daily Journal, Providence Daily Post, and Providence Daily Tribune advertise Thoreau’s lecture on 6 December:

Independent Lectures / The Fourth Lecture of the Course will be delivered in the Railroad Hall, on Wednesday Evening, by Henry D. Thoreau, (Author of Life in the Woods.) of Concord, Mass. Tickets for the course $1; Evening tickets 25 cents. For sale at the bookstores and at Leland’s Music Store, 165 Westminster Street. Doors open at 6 1/2. Lecture to commence at 7 1/2.

(“What Shall It Profit”)

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