Thoreau writes in his journal:
At 2 P.M. begins to snow, and snows till night . . . See one sheldrake in Walden . . . (Journal, 13:19-20).
A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Thoreau calls, takes supper, and passes some hours, conversing on Emerson and the times. Tells me something of Redpath, [James Redpath] the Englishman, who has been here during the past week gathering information for his Life of Brown. His book, The Roving Editor, speaks freely of slavery and of the South. Perhaps the portraits are overdrawn sometimes, and tempered with prejudices unjust to all parties.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 323)
