Thoreau lectures on “What Shall It Profit” at Railroad Hall.
The Providence Bulletin, Providence Daily Journal, Providence Daily Post, and Providence Daily Tribune advertise Thoreau’s lecture. The Post and Tribune also print brief articles on Thoreau: “a young man of high ability, who built his house in the woods, and there lived five years for about $30 a year, during which time he stored his mind with a vast amount of useful knowledge—setting an example for poor young men who thirst for learning, showing those who are determined to get a good education how they can have it by pursuing the right course.”
Providence, R.I. The Providence Daily Tribune notices:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
I see thick ice and boys skating all the way to Providence, but know not when it froze, I have been so busy writing my lecture; probably the night of the 4th. In order to go to Blue Hill by Providence Railroad, stop at Readville Station (Dedham Low Plain once), eight miles; the hill apparently two mile east. Was struck by the Providence depot, its towers and great length of brick. Lectured in it.
Went to R. Williams’s Rock on the Blackstone with Newcomb and thence to hill with an old fort atop in Seekonk, Mass., on the east side of the bay, whence a fine view down it. At lecture spoke with a Mr. [Brook?] Clark and Vaughn and Eaton . . .
