Thoreau writes in his journal:
A boy shows me one of three (apparent) hen-hawk’s eggs, fresh, obtained on the 6th from a pine near Breed’s house site (Journal, 12:200).
A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Sanborn [Franklin B. Sanborn], Henry Thoreau, and Allen [William Allen] take tea and pass the evening with us. We discuss questions of philosophy and the Ideal Theory as applied to education. Thoreau is large always and masterly in his own wild ways. With a firmer grasp of the shows of Nature, he has a subtler sense of the essence and personality of the lowing life of things than most men, and he defended the Ideal Theory and Personal Identity to my great delight.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 317)
