This closes the numbered list of plants, which seems to include chiefly those not common in New England. And with this the transcription from the pencilled notes may well end, except the curious list of travelling expenses, which, although incomplete, is worth transcribing. On a scrap of paper are a few figures, giving the different pockets in which he placed his money,—the amount of the sums named being a little less than $180. The details in the following list do not foot up so much as that,—only about $150. It is to be presumed that the actual cost was between $150 and $180. As the time occupied was two months, and the distance journeyed was more than 4,000 miles, this indicates that Thoreau practised his accustomed frugality. The entries are given as they stood in the original, without any attempt to explain them farther than they indicate of themselves.
THOREAU'S TRAVELLING EXPENSES, MAY, JUNE,
AND JULY, 1861
Date. Details. Amount.
May 10 Ticket to Chicago, $25.25
11 Concord to Worcester, .50+1.00, 1.50
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