Thoreau writes in his journal:
C. [William Ellery Channing] says that he saw to-day a procession of minnows (one to two inches long) some three or four feet wide, about forty abreast, passing slowly along northerly, close to the shore, at Wharf Rock, Flint’s Pond . . .
Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:
Called after breakfast on Channing, [William Ellery Channing] who left me below in his kitchen and went to his room in the attic. Proceeded to Mr. Alcott’s, [A. Bronson Alcott] dined with Thoreau, spent part of the afternoon with him at Mr. Alcott’s in the library, walked after with t. in the dark as far as the Hosmer farm, sat with Thoreau in his room talking till 11.
