Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
What was that little long-sharp-nosed mouse I found in the Walden road to-day? Brown above, gray beneath, black incisors, five toes with claws . . . (Journal, 7:76-77).
Philadelphia, Penn. William Henry Furness writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
I was glad to see Mr. Thoreau. He was full of interesting talk for the little while that we saw him, & it was amusing to hear your intonations. And then he looked so differently from my idea of him . . . He had a glimpse of the Academy [of Natural Sciences] as he will tell you—I could not hear him lecture for which I was sorry. Miss Caroline Haven heard him, & from her report I judge the audience was stupid & did not appreciate him.
(Records of a Lifelong Friendship, 1807-1882, 102-3)
