P.M.: Thoreau is here and talks about Emerson’s last book. [The Conduct of Life] Thinks it is moderate, and wants the fire and force of the earlier books (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 330).
Thoreau writes in his journal on 26 December:
Melvin sent to me yesterday a perfect Strix asio, or red owl of Wilson,—not at all gray (Journal, 14:294).
