Thoreau writes in his journal:
It was a rough-cast house when I first knew it. The fire still glowing among the bricks in the cellar. Richard Barrett says he remembers the inscription and the date 1650, but not the rest distinctly . . .
Ticknor & Fields sends a check for $45.00 for sales in 1856 of 240 copies of Walden and 6 copies of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
