the Thoreau Log.
18 June 1858.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Walden to see a bird’s nest, a red-eye’s, in a small white pine; nest not so high as my head; still laying. A boy climbs to the cat owl’s nest and casts down what is left of it,—a few short sticks and some earthy almost turfy foundation, as if it were the accumulation of years . . .

  E. Bartlett [Edward Bartlett] has found three bobolinks’ nests . . .

(Journal, 10:499-500)

New Bedford, Mass. Daniel Ricketson writes to Thoreau:

  I see but little of Channing in these days. I often found his peculiarities very oppressive to me. He seems to lack sympathy in his nature, which however he never gave me any reason to expect from him . . . (Concord Saunterer 19, no. 1 (July 1987):35; MS, private owner).

Thoreau replies 30 June.

Boston, Mass. The Boston Transcript prints a note:

  When Mr. Thoreau finished his books, ‘Walden,’ &c., it seems to us that he exhausted what powers he had, and now must of necessity repeat himself (Studies in the American Renaissance (1990), 328).

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