Thoreau writes in his journal:
7 A.M.—F. hyemalis in yard . . . Going down railroad, listening intentionally, I hear, far through the notes of song sparrows (which are very numerous), the song of one or two larks . . .
P.M.—To Great Fields . . . Talking with Garfield to-day about his trapping, he said that mink brought three dollars and a quarter, a remarkably high price, and asked if I had seen any . . .
Franklin B. Sanborn writes to Theodore Parker:
On the 27th Mr. Emerson [Ralph Waldo Emerson] speaks again in the Music Hall, and he has recommended the committee to send for Mr. Thoreau, who read here ten days ago, a lecture on Autumnal Tints as good as anything he ever wrote (MS, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn papers (Series III, Folder 43). Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
