BIB_ID
116561
Accession number
MA 920.13
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1851 Apr. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.7 x 19 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph poems, essays, and letters written by or to Thoreau. Items in the collection are described in 37 individual records (MA 920.1-37).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
A receipt for work Thoreau was doing for Cyrus Stow: "surveying a woodlot in the east part of Concord, making a plan and calculating two areas; also ... laying out a street & houselots near the middle of the town -- & making a plan of the same." For this work Thoreau acknowledges that he received $7.
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