Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Mr. Davis's museum.


September 15.

Looked at Mr. Davis's museum. Miss Lydia Hosmer has given him some relics which belonged to the Hosmer family.

A small lead or pewter sun-dial, which she told him was brought over by her ancestors and which has the date 1626 scratched on it.

Also some stone weights in an ancient linen bag, said to have been brought from England. They were oval stones or pebbles. There was a pound, a half-pound, a quarter, a two-ounce, and several one-ounce weights, now all rather dark and ancient to look at, like the bag. This was to me the most interesting relic in his collection.

I love to see anything that implies a simpler mode of life and greater nearness to the earth.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 15, 1860

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