10 August 1851, Sunday
Concord, Massachusetts; Home of John and Cynthia (Dunbar) Thoreau
Passages from "Walking"

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        In his diary entry of 10 August 1851, Bronson Alcott , visiting from Boston, wrote, "Thoreau read me some passages from his paper on ‘Walking’ as I passed the evening with him, and slept at Emerson’s again afterwards" (Journals, p. 252).