New Bedford, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—Rode to see some old houses in Fairhaven . . .
Visited the studio in Fairhaven of a young marine painter, built over the water, the dashing and gurgling of it coming up through a grating in the floor. He was out, but we found there painting Van Best, a well-known Dutch painter of marine pieces whom he has attracted to him. He talked and looked particularly Dutchman-like. Then visited For Nobscot on the rocky point.
England. Thomas Cholmondeley writes to Thoreau:
I have been busily collecting a next of Indian Books for you, which, accompanied by this not Mr [John] Chapman will send you—& you will find them at Boston carriage-paid (mind that, & don’t let them cheat you) at Crosby & Nichols.
I hope dear Thoreau you will accept this trife from one who has received so much from you & one who is so anxious to become your friend & to induce you to visit England. I am just about to start for the Crimea, being now a complete soldier—but I fear the game is nearly played out—& all my friends tell me I am just too late for the fair. When I return to England (if ever I do return) I mean to buy a little cottage somewhere on the south coast where I can swell in Mersonian leisure & where I have a plot to persuade you over.
Give my love to your Father & Mother & sister & my respects to Mr. Emerson & Channing, & the painter who gave me Websters Head—
I think I never found so much mindedness anywhere in all my travels as in your country of New England—& indeed—barrings its youth—it is very like our old country in my humble judgement
Adieu dear Thoreau & immense affluence to you
Ever Yours
Thos Cholmondeley
P.S. Excuse my bad writing. Of course it is the pen. Chapman will send a list of your books—by which you can see whether they are all right because I hate to have anything lost or wasted, however small.
See entry 26 October.
East Bridgewater, Mass. William Allen writes to Thoreau (Studies in the American Renaissance 1982, 365; MS, private owner).
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—Paddle about Walden . . .
How many men have a fatal excess of manner! There was one came to our house the other evening, and behaved very simply and well till the moment he was passing out the door. He then suddenly put on the airs of a well-bred man, and consciously described some are of beauty or other with his head or hand. It was but a slight flourish, but it has put me on the alert . . .
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Looking from the hog-pasture over the valley of Spencer Brook westward, we see the smoke rising from a huge chimney above a gray roof amid the woods, at a distance, where some family is preparing its evening meal . . .
Thoreau surveys a meadow for Cyrus Temple (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Thoreau also writes in his journal:
Gathered to-day my apples at the Texas house . . . (Journal, 14:98-99).
Henry D. Thoreau checks out The Life of Erasmus by Charles Butler from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 286).
Thoreau checks out The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, atlas and volume 1 by Charles Rollin, Homeri Ilias cum brevi annotatione curante C. G. Heyne, volume 1, and The Canterbury tales of Chaucer; with an essay on his language and versification, an introductory discourse, notes and a glossary by Tho. Tyrhitt, Esq., volumes 1, 2, and 5 from Harvard College Library.
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