On this day in 1853, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote the following observation in his journal:
For a year or two past, my publisher, falsely so called, has been writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" still on hand, and at last suggesting that he had use for the room they occupied in his cellar. So I had them all sent to me here, and they have arrived to-day by express, filling the man's wagon, -- 706 copies out of an edition of 1000. . . . I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?
Source: Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year (2005), edited by Steve Grant
Henry David Thoreau
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