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