the Thoreau Log.
5 March 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Went to hear a Chippeway Indian, a Doctor Mung-somebody,—assisted by a Penobscot, who said nothing. He made the audience laugh unintentionally by putting an m after the the word too . . . (Journal, 10:291-295).

Thoreau also writes to James Russell Lowell:

Dear Sir,

  I send you this morning, by the Concord & Cambridge expresses, some 80 pages of my Maine Story. There are about 50 pages more of it. I think that it is best divided thus. If, however, this is too long for you, there is a tolerable stopping place after the word “mouse” p. 74, which is about the middle of the whole.

  If there is no objection you can print the whole date 1853.

  I reserve the right to publish it in another form after it has appeared in your magazine.

  Will you please send me the proofs on account of Indian names &c- and also, if you print this, inform me how soon you would like the rest?

Yrs truly
Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 509)

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