c. 1911
pencil and ink on paper
8 7/8 x 11 ½ inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of Harriet and Mortimer Spiller, 1976
J. Benjamin Townsend, Ph.D., transcribed Burchfield’s journal entry on the backing board with a notation about where he planned to quote it in his edited volume, Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.: “Last week I somehow got the idea of mapping the country east & north of Salem. So I made several trips out, mapping different sections. I still have a large part to do yet.” (VII, 66, Sunday Nov. 12, 1911].