The Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's Life &
Writings: Correspondence
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HDT to Ticknor
& Fields
Concord, 11 April 1862
Messrs
Ticknor
& Fields,
I send with this the paper on Walking
& also the proofs of Autumnal
Tints.
The former paper will bear dividing into
two portions very well, the natural joint being, I think at the end
of page 44. At any rate the two parcels being separately tied up,
will indicate it—
I do not quite like to have the Autumnal
Tints described as in two parts, for it appears as if the author had
made a permanent distinction between them; Would it not be better to
say at the end of the first portion "To be continued in the
next number''?
As for the leaf, I had not thought how it
should be engraved, but left it to you. Your note suggests that
perhaps it is to be done at my expense. What is the custom? and what
would be the cost of a steel engraving? I think that an ordinary
wood engraving would be much better than nothing.
Yours truly,
Henry D. Thoreau
by S. E. Thoreau.
A
Note on the Text:
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Source:
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by
Walter Harding and Carl Bode (New York: New York University
Press, c1958) p. 640.
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