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15 October 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Botrychium Swamp.

  A cold northwest wind.

  I see some black oak acorns on the trees still and in some places at least half the shrub oak acorns. The last are handsomer now that they have turned so much darker.

  I go along the east edge of poplar Hill. This very cold and windy clay, now that so many leaves have fallen . . .

(Journal, 12:384-388)
15 September 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau attends a meeting of the Institute of 1770, in which he presumably debates the topic “Ought there to be any restrictions on the publication of opinions?” and Jones Very delivers a poem (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:82).

15 September 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out Introduction to the Greek classic poets. Designed principally for the use of young persons at school and college, part 1 by Henry Nelson Coleridge from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 287).

15 September 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Youth grasps at happiness as an inalienable right. The tear does no sooner gush than glisten. Who shall say when the tear that sprung of sorrow first sparkled with joy? (Journal, 1:59).
15 September 1846. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his wife, Lidian Emerson:

  It is still doubtful if the Clarkes come but I shall add the barn room if they do & Thoreau is to build it & I am sorry you are not here to instruct . . . Henry T. has returned safe from Katahdin, after the finest adventures in batteaus, lakes, & mountains.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:348)
15 September 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys the Concord/Acton town line and is paid $18 (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Survey at the Concord Free Public Library, 6; Henry David Thoreau Papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

“H. D. Thoreau for perambulating town lines and erecting stones at Acton and Bedford lines, 18 00” (Concord Mass. Town Reports, 1851-1852, 18).

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Commenced perambulating the town bounds. At 7.30 am rode in company with [A A Kelsey] and Mr. [Tolman] to the bound between Acton and Concord near Paul Dudley’s. Mr. [Tolman] told a story of his wife walking in the fields somewhere, and, to keep the rain off, throwing her gown over her head and holding it in her mouth, and so being poisoned about her mouth from the skirts of her dress having come in contact with poisonous plants. At Dudley’s, which house is handsomely situated, with five large elms in front, we met the selectmen of Acton, [Ivory Keyes] and [Luther Conant]. Here were five of us. It appeared that we weighed, [Tolman] I think about 160, [Conant] 155, [Keyes] about 140, [Kelsey] 130, myself 127. [Tolman] describes the wall about or at Forest Hills Cemetery in Roxbury as being made of stones upon which they were careful to preserve the moss, so that it cannot be distinguished from a very old wall. Found one intermediate bound stone near the powder-mill drying-house on the bank of the river. The workmen there wore shoes without iron tacks. He said that the kernel-house was the most dangerous, the dryinghouse next, the press-house next. One of the powdermill buildings in Concord?
(Journal, 2:504-505)

Thoreau and A. A. Kelsey make a statement on the Acton and Concord boundary lines:

  We the subscribers, in behalf of the towns of Concord and Acton, being legally appointed for the purpose, met and perambulated the line between said towns, which is described as running from a split stone near the house of Paul Dudley S 35 W 1656 rods to a split stone near the powder mills, on which line there are intermediate bound stones by every public road, except the new road leading to the Powder Mill, also one on the back of the river, and another in the woods west of the Factory Village.

  Also it was decided, as soon as convenient, to move the stone on the bank of the river to a point by the road leading to the powder mills, and on a straight line between the nearest bound stones.

  All to the satisfaction of both parties, this fifteenth day of September 1851. A. A. Kelsey, Henry D. Thoreau , (In behalf of Concord); Ivory Keyes, Luther Conant, (Selectmen of Acton).

(Town of Concord Archives)
15 September 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To boat under Fair Haven Hill and down river . . . Goodwin, the one-eyed fisherman, is back again at his old business (and Haynes also) . . . (Journal, 7:42-43).

Thoreau also writes to Sarah E. Webb:

Sarah E. Webb,

  Your note, which was directed to Concord N.H., has just reached me. The address to which you refer has not been printed in a pamphlet form. It appeared in the Liberator, from which it was copied into the Tribune, &, with omissions, into the Anti-Slavery Standard. I am sorry that I have not a copy to send you. I have published “A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers,” as well as “Walden, or Life in the Woods,” and some miscellaneous papers. The “Week” probably is not for sale at any bookstore. The greater part of the edition was returned to me.

Respectfully

Henry D. Thoreau.

“Undoubtedly slavery in Massachusetts, which Thoreau had delivered before the Anti-Slavery Convention at Framingham the preceding July 4, was the address Miss Webb had in mind.”

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 337)
15 September 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet . . . (Journal, 7:455).

Franklin B. Sanborn writes in his journal:

  From that time [early in July] until the 25th August I was absent from Concord. Since I returned I have often met Mr E—[Ralph Waldo Emerson] either at his house or in the street and the other night at Mr Thoreau’s where there was a party . . .
(Transcendental Climate, 1:228; MS, Pierpont Morgan Library)
15 September 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Walden.

  I paddle about the pond, for a rarity . . .

  I gather quite a lot of perfectly fresh high blueberries overhanging the south side, and there are many green ones among them still. They are all shrivelled now in swamps commonly . . .

(Journal, 11:159-161)
15 September 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  W. Richardson says that, when looking for insects this morning under the loose bark of an apple tree on Nawshawtuct, he found a bat hanging there which measured eleven feet [sic], alar extent.

  P.M.—To Annursnack . . .

  The Emersons tell me that their Irishman, James, held his thumb for the calf to suck, after dipping it in a pitcher of milk, but, the milk not coming fast enough, [the calf] butted (or bunted) the pitcher to make the milk come down, and broke it . . .

(Journal, 12:327-329)

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