Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thermometer 45. Fair but all overcast. Sun’s place quite visible. Wind southwest.
Went to what we called Two-Boulder Hill, behind the house where I was born. There the wind suddenly changed round 90° to northwest, and it became quite cold (had fallen to 24° or 24° [sic] at 5.30) . . . .
Joseph Stubbs, from the Office of The Adams Express Company, writes to Thoreau:
Your Pcl and Bill for Collection, $10 oo on H. A. Lucas Balto has been presented and Payment Refused
Please advise us at once what disposition we shall make of the Goods, as they are held subject to your order, and at your RISK AGAINST FIRE, AND OTHER DANGERS.
Answer on THIS SHEET.
Respectfully yours,
For the Company
Jos. Stubbs
Charles Wyatt Rice writes to Thoreau (The Correspondence (2013, Princeton), 1:9-10). Thoreau replies 5 August.
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
Ellen Sewall writes to her father Edmund Quincy Sewall Sr.:
She [Prudence Bird Ward] and Aunty send a great deal of love to you all and Mr’s John and Henry desire their respects. Mrs. Thoreau does not know I am writing or she would send love too.
I shall certainly be with you Saturday unless there is a violent storm, which I trust will not be the case. They are all very urgent for me to remain another week, but I of course say decidedly no.
Isaac Thomas Hecker writes to Thoreau:
It was not altogether the circumstance of our immediate physical nearness, tho this may [have] been the consequence of a higher affinity, that inspired us to commune with each other. This I am fully sensible since our seperation [sic]. Oftentimes we observe ourselves to be passive or cooperative agents of profounder principles than we at the time ever dream of.
I have been stimulated to write to you at this present moment on account of a certain project which I have formed in which your influence has no slight share I imagine in forming. It is to work our passage to Europe, and to walk, work, and beg, if needs be, as far when there as we are inclined to do. We wish to see how it looks. And to court difficulties, for we feel an unknown depth of untried virgin strength which we know of no better way at the present time to call into activity and so dispose of. We desire to go without purse or staff, depending upon the all embracing love of God, Humanity, and the spark of courage imprisoned in us. Have we the will we have the strong arms, and hands, to work with, and sound feet to stand upon, and walk with. The heavens shall be our vaulted roof, and the green Earth beneath our bed, and for all other furniture purposes. These are free and may be so used. What can hinder us from going but our bodies, and shall they do it. We can as well deposit them there as here. Let us take a walk over the fairest portions of the planet Earth and make it ours by seeing them. Let us see what the genius and stupidity of our honored fore fathers have heaped up. We wish to kneel at their shrines and embrace their spirits and kiss the ground which they have hallowed with their presence. We shall prove the dollar is not almighty and the impossible moonshine. The wide world is before us beckoning us to come let us accept and embrace it. Reality shall be our antagonist and our lives if sold not at a good bargain for a certainty.
How does the idea strike you? I prefer at least to go this way before going farther in the woods. The past let us take with us. We reverence; we love it, but forget not that our eyes are in our face set to the beautiful unimagined future. Let us be Janus faced with a beard and beardless face. Will you accept this invitation? Let me know what your impressions are. As soon as it is your pleasure.
Remember me to your kind family. Tomorrow I take the first step towards becoming a visible member of the Roman Catholic Church.
If you and your good family do not become greater sinners I shall claim you all as good catholics, for she claims all baptized infants; all innocent children of every religious denomination; and all grown up Christians who have preserved their baptismal innocence, though they make no outward profession of the Catholic faith; are yet claimed as her children by the Roman Catholic Church.
Yours Very Truly
Isaac Hecker
“A good deal had happened to Hecker since the last correspondence in December when Charles Lane mentioned him to Thoreau. Hecker had come to Concord in April in order to study Latin and Greek under a schoolmaster friend of his and Emerson’s, George Patridge Bradford. He had roomed at the Thoreau house at a cost of seventy-five cents a week. Hecker went back to New York in June, his religious problems settled in his mind, to join the Catholic Church.”
Thoreau replies 14 August.
Hecker also writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes to Ellen Emerson:
I think that we are pretty well acquainted, though we never had any very long talks. We have had a good many short talks, at any rate. Dont you remember how we used to despatch our breakfast two winters ago, as soon as Eddy could get on his feeding tire, which was not always remembered, before the rest of the household had come down? Dont you remember our wise criticisms on the pictures in the portfolio and the Turkish book with Eddy and Edith looking on,—how almost any pictures answered our purpose, and we went through the Penny Magazine, first from beginning to end, and then from end to beginning, and Eddy stared just as much the second time as the first, and Edith thought that we turned over too soon, and that there were some things which she had not seen—? . . .
Your own Mother
I trust you will really answer it, just as if he had spoken what it contains, to your face. Address him “Mr Thoreau” or any thing you like better. Papa and I both read his letter (with his leave, of course,) and liked it much. I hope it gave you pleasure too.
Charles Sumner replies to Thoreau’s letter of 29 July:
I desire to thank you for your kindness in writing me with regard to the remains of a human body found on the beach last Saturday. From what you write & from what I hear from others, it seems impossible to identify them. If the body of my brother could be found, it would be a great satisfaction to us to bury him with those of his family who have gone before him.
Believe me, clear Sir, faithfully & gratefully Yours,
Charles Sumner
The Boston Transcript relays information from the New-York Tribune notice of 30 July (Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 182 (Winter 1988):4).
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
There is more shadow under the edges of woods and copses now. The foliage appears to have increased so that the shadows are heavier, and perhaps it is this that makes it cooler, especially morning and evening, though it may be as warm as ever at noon . . .
Thoreau writes in his journal:
The anychia, or forked chickweed, grows larger, with spreading red stems, on the south side of Heywood Peak . . . Goodyera repens well out at Corallorhiza Hillside . . .
I calculate that less than forty species of flowers known to me remain to blossom this year.
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