the Thoreau Log.
22 March 1852.

Boston, Mass. Thoreau lectures on “Economy” at “Fisher’s Rooms” (“Economy“).

Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views by William Gilpin, volumes 1 and 2, from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 290).

Boston, Mass. A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Thoreau is here, also Blake. [H. G. O. Blake] Evening, Thoreau reads his papers on ‘The Sylvan Life,’ at Fisher’s Rooms to a company of 60 or more persons, to their great delight. He passes the night with me (MS, Amos Bronson Alcott papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

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