September 30, 2025
Went into an old deserted house, the Brady house, where two girls who had lived in the family of R. and his mother had been born and bred, their father Irish, their mother Yankee. R. said that they were particularly bright girls and lovers of nature; had read my "Walden." Now keep school. Have still an affection for their old house.
We visited the spring they had used. Saw the great willow tree at the corner of the house, in which one of the girls, an infant in the cradle, thought that the wind began as she looked out the window, and heard the wind sough through it. Saw how the chimney in the garret was eked out with flat stones, bricks being dear.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 30, 1855
R. said that they were particularly bright girls and lovers of nature; had read my "Walden." See April 23, 1857 ("I saw at Ricketson's a young woman, Miss Kate Brady, twenty years old . . . I never heard a girl or woman express so strong a love for nature. She purposes to return to that lonely ruin, and dwell there alone.")
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