the Thoreau Log.
2 December 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  As the stars, though spheres, present an outline of many little points of light to our eyes, like a flower of light, so I notice to-night the horns of the new moon appear split.

  The skeleton which at first sight excites only a shudder in all mortals becomes at last not only a pure but suggestive and pleasing object to science. The more we know of it, the less we associate it with any goblin of our imaginations . . .

(Journal, 6:4-5)

Thoreau also writes to Francis H. Underwood:

  Dear Sir,—

  I send you herewith a complete article of fifty-seven pages. Putnam’s Magazine pays me four dollars a page, but I will not expect to receive more for this than you pay to anyone else. Of course you will not make any alterations or omissions without consulting me.

  Yours,

  Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 308)

Underwood replies on 5 December.

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