the Thoreau Log.
11 September 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys a woodlot near Great Meadows for Daniel Shattuck (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Measured to-day the little Sternothaerus odoratus which came September 9 out in the garden . . . Surveying this forenoon, I saw a small, round bright-yellow gall (some are red on one side), as big as a moderate cranberry, hard and smooth, saddled on a white oak twig . . .
(Journal, 7:32-34)

Millbury, Mass. Catherine V. Devens writes to Thoreau (MS, privately owned).

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