31 December 1851, Tuesday
Concord, Massachusetts; Home of John and Cynthia (Dunbar) Thoreau
Passages from "An Excursion to Canada"

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        In his diary entry for 31 December 1851, Bronson Alcott, visiting from Boston, wrote, "Pass the forenoon with Thoreau, who reads me passages from his ‘Canadian Tour,’ which he is now compiling from notes, for Lyceum Readings" (MS "Diary for 1851," MH [*59M-308]).