Thoreau writes in his journal:
Humphrey Buttrick says that he hears the note of the woodcock from the village in April and early in May . . .
To-day is suddenly overpoweringly warm. Thermometer at 1 P.M., 94º in the shade! but in the afternoon it suddenly fell to 56, and it continued cold the next two days.
Thoreau also draws a plan of cemetery lots for a Mrs. Whitman (Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Nathaniel Hawthorne writes in his journal:
