the Thoreau Log.
9 October 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Rufus Wilmot Griswold:

Dear Sir,  I am sorry that I can only place at your disposal three small poems printed in the “Dial”—that called “Sympathy” in no. 1.—“Sic Vita” in no. 5 and “Friendship” in no. 6. If you see fit to reprint these will you please to correct the following errors?
“         “      5th      “         “breeze         “haze.

     “              “        “          the eyes                “     our eyes 

     “              “        “          worked                 “     works.

     “            13th    “          deatest                 “     truest. 

     “             4th     “          “     “friendship”

                                       For our read one.

     “            10th    “          warden               “     warder.

I was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817, and was graduated at Harvard University, in 1837,

Yrs respectfully

Henry D Thoreau

“A note clipped to the manuscript identifies it as correction for an edition of The Poets and Poetry of America, but none of Thoreau’s poems appeared in that or any other Griswold’s anthologies”

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 54; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series III). Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)

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