Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
A boy brings me to-day an Attacus Cecropia moth which has come out of a cocoon in his trunk . . .
Minott remembers the Rana palustris, or yellow-legged one, as “the one that stinks so,” as if that scent were peculiar to it . . .
About 9 P.M. I went to the edge of the river to hear the frogs . . .
Thoreau writes in his journal:
This is about the last ofthe very dry leaves in the woods, for soon the ground will be shaded by expanded green leaves. It is quite hazy, if not smoky, and I smell smoke in the air, this hot day. My assistants, being accustomed to work indoors in the factory, are quite overcome by this sudden heat . . .
At evening I hear the first sultry buzz of a fly in my chamber, telling of sultry nights to come.
Thoreau writes in his journal:
2 P.M.—To Second Division.
74°; wind southeast; and hazy . . .
Thoreau dies. Early in the morning, he asks his sister Sophia to read aloud some of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. After she reads from the last chapter, he says, “Now comes good Sailing” (Concord Saunterer, vol. 11, no. 4 (Winter 1976):16-17). His last words were “moose” and “Indian” (Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist, 336).
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to H.G.O. Blake:
A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:
Sarah Alden Ripley, living in the Old Manse, writes to Sophia Thayer:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Thoreau writes in his journal:
I saw yesterday for a moment by the river a small olivaceous-yellow bird; possibly a goldfinch, but I think too yellow. I see some gossamer on the causeway this afternoon, though it is very windy . . .
Climbed the wooded hill by Holden’s spruce swamp and got a novel view of the river and Fair Haven Bay through the almost leafless woods. How much handsomer a river or lake such as ours, seen thus through a foreground of scattered or else partially leafless trees, though at a considerable distance this side of it, especially if the water is open, without wooded shores or isles! It is the most perfect and beautiful of all frames, which yet the sketcher is commonly careful to brush aside . . .
Thoreau surveys farmland for James Colburn (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 6; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Thoreau writes in his journal:
Providence, R.I. Asa Fairbanks writes to Thoreau:
I am in receipt of yours of the 4th inst, You stating explicitly that the 6th December would suit you better than any other time. I altered other arrangements on purpose to accommodate you, and notified you as soon as I was able to accomplish them. Had you named the last Wednsday in Nov. or the second Wednsday in December, I could have replied to you at once or any time in Janury or Feb it would have been the same I shall regret the disappointment very much but must submit to it if you have such overtures as you cannot avoid. I hope however you will be able to come at the time appointed
Truly
A. Fairbanks
East Princeton, Mass. Daniel Foster writes to Thoreau (Studies in the American Renaissance 1982, 361; MS, private owner).
Thoreau writes in his journal:
I can hardly resist the inclination to collect driftwood, to collect a great load of various kinds, which will sink my boat low in the water, and paddle or sail slowly home with it . . .
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