the Thoreau Log.
26 March 1838. Cambridge, Mass.

Josiah Quincy writes a letter of recommendation for Thoreau:

To Whom It May Concern,—

  I certify that Henry D. Thoreau, of Concord in this State of Massachusetts, graduated at this seminary in August, 1837; that his rank was high as a scholar in all branches, and his morals and general conduct unexceptionable and exemplary. He is recommended as well qualified as an instructor, for employment in any public or private school or private family.

Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 26; MS, The Raymond Adams collection in The Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Lincoln, Mass.)

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