Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
Saw sixty geese go over the Great Fields, in one waving line, broken from time to time by their crowding on each other and vainly endeavoring to form into a harrow, honking all the while.
Liverpool, England. Nathaniel Hawthorne writes to Monckton Milnes:
I wish anything could be done to make [Thoreau’s] books known to the English public; for certainly they deserve it, being the work of a true man and full of true thought. You must not think that he is a particular friend of mine. I do not speak with quite this freedom of my friends. We have never been intimate, though my house is near his residence.
(Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 121 (Fall 1972):7; MS, Norman Holmes Pearson collection, Yale University)
