Arriving late for sail to Provincetown

July 4

To Boston on way to Cape Cod with C. 

The schooner Melrose is advertised to make her first trip to Provincetown this morning at eight.

We reach City Wharf at 8.30. 

“Well, Captain Crocker, how soon do you start?" 

 “To-morrow morning at 9 o’clock.”  

“But you have advertised to leave at 8 this morning.” 

 “I know it, but we are going to lay over till to-morrow.” !!! 

So we have to spend the day in Boston, —at Athenaeum gallery, Alcott’s, and at the regatta.

Lodge at Alcott’s, who is about moving to Walpole.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 4, 1855

July 4, 2025

See Letter To H.G.O. Blake ("North Truro, July 8, 1855. There being no packet, I did not leave Boston till last Thursday, though I came down on Wednesday, and Charming with me . . .You will find either the schooner Melrose or another, or both, leaving Commerce Street, or else T Wharf, at 9 A. M. (it commonly means 10), Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, – if not other days. We left about 10 A. M., and reached Provincetown at 5 P. very good run ")

Regatta: the seccond annual Boston City Regatta.

The schooner Melrose –

her first trip to Provincetown 

this morning at eight.