the Thoreau Log.
20 April 1852.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Morning.—Storms still. The robin sings unfailingly each morning at, the time the sun should rise, in spite of dreary rain. Some storms have much more wet in them than others, though they look the same to one in the house, and you cannot walk half an hour without being wet through, while in the others you may keep pretty dry a whole afternoon . . .
(Journal, 3:446-447)

New York, N.Y. Horace Greeley writes to Thoreau:

Dear Sir:

  I have yours of the 17th. I am rather sorry you will not do the Works and Ways; but glad that you are able to employ your time to better purpose.

  But your Quebeck notes don’t reach me yet, and I fear the `good time’ is passing. They ought to have appeared in the June Nos. of the Monthlies, but now cannot before July. If you choose to send them to me all in a bunch, I will try to get them printed in that way. I don’t care about them if you choose to reserve or to print them elsewhere; but I can better make a use for them at this season than at any other.

Yours,
Horace Greeley.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 281)

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