Thoreau surveys a house lot for Maria Green (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 7; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—To Lincoln. Surveying for William Peirce. He says that several large chestnuts appear to be dying near him on account of the drought. Saw a meadow said to be still on fire after three weeks . . .
Boston, Mass. Richard Fuller writes to Thoreau (MS, privately owned).
