14 January 1848, Friday
Concord, Massachusetts
"Friendship"

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        Bronson Alcott, in a January 1848 diary entry presumably penned on the fourteenth, noted as follows:

        Henry Thoreau came in after my hours with the children, and we had a good deal of talk on the modes of popular lecture.
        He read me a MS. essay of his on Friendship which he had just written and which I thought superior to any thing I have heard. (MS "Diary for 1848," entry of 14 January, MH [*59M-308])