Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1858

Yesterday walked with Henry Thoreau to the spring in Everett's pasture and found Ranuncu- lus abortivus and bulbosus, and the Equisetum htemale, scouring rush, and…

I spent the evening of June 7 at the Ameri- can House, with J. S. Babcock, the carpenter, Mr. Rowse's friend, — a man of much reading, and a very active and…

Follansbee's Pond. It should be called Still- man's henceforward, from the good camp which this gallant artist has built, and the good party he has led and planted…