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Dear Sir

  I enclose to you my brothers note with my endorsement, at his request.

  Please acknowledge to him its reception

Yours truly
Chauncey Smith

  Q. II. Is Mr. Thoreau really better of his cough? A. Yes, and he can raise more and it does not hinder his sleeping so much.

  Q. III. Has he a good appetite? Yes, he has a very good one . . .

  Q. XIV. Do you think Mr. T. is prudent? Yes . . .

  We cannot get rain water to drink, but Mr. Thoreau has got over his bowel complaint and is getting better of his cold.

  I have time to write a few words about the Dial. I have just received the first 3 signatures—which do not yet complete Lane’s piece. He will place five hundred copies for sale at Munroe’s bookstore—Wheeler has sent you two full sheets—more about the German universities—and proper names which will have to be printed in alphabetical order for convenience.—what this one has done that one is doing—and the other intends to do—Hammer Purgstall (von Hammer) may be one for aught I know. However there are two or three things in it as well as names—One of the works of Herodotus is discovered to be out of place. He says something about having sent to [James Russell?] Lowell by the last steamer a budget of Literary news which he will have communicated to you ere this.
Mr Alcott has a letter from [John] Heraud and a book written by him—The Life of Savonarola—which he wishes to have republished here—Mr Lane will write a notice of it. The latter says that what is in the N. Y. post office may be directed to Mr. Alcott.

  Miss [Elizabeth] Peabody has sent a “Notice to the readers of the Dial”—which is not good.

  Mr [E. H.] Chapin lectured this evening—but so rhetorically—that I forgot my duty, and heard very little.

  I find myself better than I have been—and am meditating some other method of paying debts than by lectures and writing which will only do to talk about—If anything of that “other” sort should come to your ears in N. Y. will you remember it for me?

  Excuse this scrawl which I am writing over the embers in the dining room. I hope that you live on good terms with yourself and the gods

Yrs in haste
Henry.

  The following inquiries are made agreeably to a vote passed at the Last Annual Meeting of the Class, with a view to obtain authentic information concerning each one of its members, and to enable the Secretary to record facts now easily obtainable, but which, from year to year, it will be more and more difficult to collect.

  You are respectfully requested to answer the questions proposed, as fully as may be convenient and agreeable to you, and to add such other facts concerning your life, before or after entering College, as you are willing to communicate. The answers are to be recorded in the Class Book for future reference.Please to address Henry Williams, Jr. Boston; post paid.

Very Respectfully and Truly Yours,
Henry Williams, Jr., Class Secretary.

  1. When and where were you born?

  2. Where were you fitted for College, and by whom?

  3. If married, when, where, and to whom?

  4. What is your profession? If learned, with whom studied? If mercantile, where and with whom begun?

  5. What are your present employment, and residence?

  6. Mention any general facts of importance before or since graduating.