Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Fauna boreali-americana (volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4?) by Sir John Richardson from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 290; Thoreau’s Reading).
New York, N.Y. Horace Greeley writes to Thoreau:
Greeley also encloses a letter from John Sartain:
I have read the articles of Mr. Thoreau forwarded by you, and will be glad to publish them if our terms are satisfactory. We generally pay for prose composition per printed page, and would allow him three dollars per page. We do not pay more than four dollars for any that we now engage. I did not suppose our maximum rate would have paid you (Mr. Greeley) for your lecture, and therefore requested to know your own terms. Of course, when an article is unusually desirable, we may deviate from rule; I now only mention ordinary arrangement . I was very sorry not to have your article, but shall enjoy the reading of it in Graham, Mr. T. might send us some further contributions, and shall at least receive prompt and courteous decision respecting them.
Yours truly,
John Sartain
Greeley replies on 26 March.
