the Thoreau Log.
14 November 1850.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau surveys a woodlot near Ministerial Swamp for Cyrus Stow (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Thoreau also writes in his journal:

  Saw to-day, while surveying in the Second Division woods, a singular round mound in a valley made perhaps sixty or seventy years ago. Cyrus Stow thought it was a pigeon-bed, but I soon discovered the coal and that it was an old coal-pit (Journal, 2:95).

Clinton, Mass. Franklin Forbes writes to Thoreau:

  Dear Sir

  As one of the Committee on Lectures of the Bigelow Mechanic Institute of this town, I wish to ascertain if you will deliver your lecture on “Cap[e] Cod” before the Institute on either Wednesday Evening of the month of January—

  An early answer will much oblige

  Yrs respectfully,

  Franklin Forbes

  P.S. If you prefer any other lecture of yours to the above mentioned, please name a day on which you can deliver it.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 268)

Thoreau replies 15 November.

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