November 1856
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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        Almost certainly F. B. Sanborn’s mention of a Thoreau lecture in Philadelphia during November 1856 (The Life of Henry David Thoreau, p. 382) is a misstated or mistaken reference to Thoreau’s 21 November 1854 delivery of "The Wild" in that city (see lecture 45 above). Recalling that Thoreau had delivered a lecture in Philadelphia, Sanborn probably assumed that the lecture took place at some point during Thoreau’s trip to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in October-November 1856.