A little chilly

August 20

Rain all night and to-day, making it a little chilly. Though I sit with open window, I should think it uncomfortably cool with it closed. Some must have a little fire.

August 20, 2026 7:58 PM

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 20, 1856

Rain all night and to-day, making it a little chilly . . . Some must have a little fire. See August 20, 1858 ("It is still cool weather with a northwest wind. This weather is a preface to autumn"); August 20, 1853  ("This day, too, has that autumnal character. "); See also  August 23, 1858 ("Cooler than ever. Some must have fires, and I close my window."); August 27, 1860 ("The nights have been cooler of late, but the heat of the sun by day has been more local and palpable."); August 29, 1854 ("It is so cool that we are inclined to stand round the kitchen fire a little while these mornings, though we sit and sleep with open windows still.“); August 29, 1859 ("It is so cool a morning that for the first time I move into the entry to sit in the sun.") Compare  October 31, 1854 ("Sat with open window for a week.”); November 8, 1855 ("I can sit with my window open and no fire.”); February 18, 1857 ("I sit all this day and evening without a fire, and some even have windows open.”)

August 20. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, August 20

Though chilly to-day

 I sit with open window –

some must have a fire.

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, A little chilly 

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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