Thoreau writes in his journal:
This on my way to Conantum, 2.30 P.M. It is a bright, clear, warm November day. I feel blessed. I love my life I ward toward all nature . . .
Minott says that G. M. Barrett told him that Amos Baker told him that during Concord Fight he went over behind the hill to the old Whittaker place (Sam Buttrick’s) and stayed. Yet he was described as the only survivor of Concord Fight. Received a pension for running away? . . .
The rain of night before last has raised the river at least two feet, and the meadows wear a late-fall look . . .
Saw a canoe birch by road beyond the Abel Minott house; distinguished it thirty rods off by the chalky whiteness of its limbs . . .
Concord, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
