for $100, which may have been a part of the fund from which Thoreau paid his travelling expenses on this journey, there appears a pencilled list of the clothing with which he provided himself for the expedition. The articles (perhaps not all he carried) were:
"A half-thick coat, a thin coat, ’best pants,’ three shirts, a flannel shirt, three pairs of socks, slippers, underclothing, five
handkerchiefs, a waistcoat, towel and soap,"—and such little articles as he might need, including a supply of medicines. Then comes the apparatus of scientific observation,—a compass and microscope, a plant-book for specimens, insect boxes, a botany-book (no doubt Gray), twine and cards, blotting and writing paper, tape, a dipper and bottle for foot-journeying, etc.
Ellery Channing, Thoreau’s most intimate biographer, has noted in his Thoreau, the Poet-naturalist (Boston, 1902), what was his friend’s custom in clothing and outfit:
" His coat must contain special convenience for a walker; and the pockets, especially, must be made with reference to his
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