the Thoreau Log.
30 September 1854.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Via Assabet to the monarda road.

  I am surprised to see that some red maples, which were so brilliant a day or two ago, have already shed their leaves, and they cover the land and the water quite thickly. I see a countless fleet of them slowly carried round in the still bay by the Leaning Hemlocks. I find a fine tupelo near Sam Barrett’s now all turned scarlet . . .

(Journal, 7:61-62)

Plymouth, Mass. Marston Watson writes to Thoreau:

My dear Sir—

  I am glad to learn from Mr. [James Walter] Spooner that you are really coming down, with the tripod too, which is so good news that I hardly dared to expect it.

  It seems a little uncertain whether you intend to read in the morning as well as evening, and so I write to enquire, that there may be no mistake in the announcement. Please let me know by return mail which will be in time.

Very truly yours

B. M. Watson

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 340)

Boston, Mass. The Boston Society of Natural History reports that Thoreau had donated copies of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden to the Boston Society of Natural History during the quarter ending 30 September (Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 5:86).

Liverpool, England. Nathaniel Hawthorne writes to William Davis Ticknor:

Mr. Monckton Milnes wants me to send him a half a dozen good American books, which he has never read or heard of before. For the honor of my country, I should like to do it, but can think of only three which would be likely to come under his description – viz., ‘Walden,’ ‘Passion Flowers,’ and ‘Up-Country Letters.’ Possibly Mrs. Mowatt’s ‘Autobiography’ might make a fourth; and Thoreau’s former volume a fifth. You understand that these books must not be merely good, but must be original, with American characteristics, and not generally known in England.
(Hawthorne and his Publisher, 135)

Harrisburg, Penn. The Morning Herald reviews Walden.

New York, N.Y.. Walden is reviewed in the Christian Enquirer.

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