Thoreau writes in his journal:
2 p.m. Leave War Eagle for Prairie du Chien, some 200 miles distant. Mrs. [Margaret Barker] Upham of Clinton with us, has a cousin [John Quincy Adams] Clifton in Bedford. Lake Pepin. 1st northeast then east (?) by sun & compass. Reach Prairie du Chien about 9 A.M. [the] 27th.
Horace Mann Jr. writes to his mother Mary:
I have not yet received any letter from you, and so I have left word at the post-office to have any which may come, forwarded to Detroit where I may be able to get it. We shall leave this afternoon.
It is quite a cool day in the wind, though the sun is pretty warm.
Goodbye, your loving son
Horace Mann
P.S. I shall write again from Milwaukee.
