Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1857

Captain John Brown of Kansas gave a good account of himself in the Town Hall, last night, to a meeting of citizens. One of his good points was, the folly of the…

Yesterday, at the ClifF, with a family party, and Henry Thoreau and Ricketson.' Found the " trailing arbutus,"' and the corydalis.' Henry has found new willows, and…

Walk this afternoon with Henry Thoreau. Found the perfoliata uvularia ' for the first time in Lincoln by Flint's Pond ; found the chestnut sided warbler, which, I…

Ellery Channing thinks that these frogs at Walden are very curious but final facts ; that they will never be disappointed by finding themselves raised to " a higher…

Yesterday, the best day of the year, we spent in the afternoon on the river. A sky of Calcutta ; light, air, clouds, water, banks, birds, grass, pads, lilies, were…

Yesterday with Henry at the Estabrook Farm, and Ebba Hubbard's swamp to see the yellow birches, which grow larger than I have seen them elsewhere. The biggest…