3 July 1854. Concord, Mass. | The Walden Woods Project

3 July 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

I hear the purple finch these days about the houses,—a twitter witter weeter wee, a witter witter wee.

P.M.—To Hubbard Bridge by boat.

On the great hummock dropped on Dennis’s meadow last winter, I see now flourishing, of small plants, water milkweed . . .

(Journal, 6:382-384)

Boston, Mass. Ticknor & Co. print 2,000 copies of Walden (The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and their predecessors, 1832-1858, 289).

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