Thoreau checks out Novum Lexicon Manuale Graecum-Latinum and Latinum-Graecum by Benjamin Hederich from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 287).

Thoreau also attends a meeting of the Institute of 1770, in which the topic “Should manual labor be connected with institutions of learning?” is debated (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:82).