R. W. E. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] has bought a quarter of a pound of white pine seed at $4.00 per pound.

  We could not dig up pines on the north side of the wood on the Brister lot to-day on account of frost! Though we had quite forgotten it, and put the winter so far behind us.

  See the Vanessa Antiopa. C. has seen it a week or so. C. [William Ellery Channing] sees a cicindela to-day . . .