the Thoreau Log.
25 January 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A warm, moist day. Thermometer at 6.30 P.M. at 49° . . .

  You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sandheap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain . . .

(Journal, 10:258-259)

Bronson Alcott writes to Ainsworth R. Spofford:

  Last evening I saw Thoreau who is trenchant and masterly as ever. He had been reading some papers in Drawing rooms to a good company lately at Lynn (The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott, 279).

Athol, Mass. An unidentified person writes to Thoreau:

  Dear Sir: Send me a copy [. . .] (MS, Thoreau papers. Brown University Library, Providence, R.I.).

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