Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Voyages curieux et nouveau de Messieurs Hennepin et de La Borde, ou l’on voit une description trè particuliere d’un grand pays dans l’Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la mer Glaciale by Louis Hennepin, Relations de la Louisianne et du Mississippi by Henri de Tonti, and Relation of the Voyages, Discoveries, and Death of Father James Marquette by Jacque Marquette from Harvard College Library (Emerson the Essayist, 2:198; Thoreau’s Reading, 161). See entry 19 December.
New Bedford, Mass. Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:
Boston, Mass. Ticknor & Fields writes to Thoreau:
Dear Sir
Referring to our file of letters from 1857 we find a note from you of which the enclosed is a copy.
As our letter to which it is a reply was missent we doubt not but our answer to yours of a few months since has been subjected to the same, or a similar irregularity.
Respectfully yours &c.
Ticknor & Fields
pr Clark