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16 March 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  7 A.M.—The sap of that red maple has not begun to flow yet . . .

  2 P.M.—The red maple [sap] is now about an inch deep in the quart pail,—nearly all caught since morning . . . Going home, slipped on the ice, throwing the pail over my head to save myself, and spilt all but a pint . . .

(Journal, 8:208-209)
16 March 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Cambridge and Boston (Journal, 9:295).

Thoreau borrows Grey’s Memoria Technica; New Method of Artificial Memory from Harvard Library (Cameron 1964, 291).

On or near this date, Thoreau wrote to [Thomas] Cholmondeley to tell him that he cannot find the catalog [Thomas] Cholmondeley speaks of, but tells him that he might look at Obadia Rich’s Bibliothecae America Nova published in London (MS letter, NNPM).

16 March 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Conantum.

  A thick mist, spiriting away the snow. Very bad walking. This fog is one of the first decidedly spring signs; also the withered grass bedewed by it and wetting my feet . A still, foggy, and rather warm day. I heard this morning, also, quite a steady warbling from tree sparrows on the dripping bushes . . .

(Journal, 10:298-299)
16 March 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  6 A.M.—The water is just over the slanting iron truss, four feet from its east end, and still rising.

  P.M.—Launch my boat and sail to Ball’s Hill . . .

  We meet one great gull beating up the course of the river against the wind, at Flint’s Bridge. (One says they were seen about a week ago, but there was very little water then.) Its is a very leisurely sort of limping flight, tacking its way along like a sailing vessel, yet the slow security with which it advances suggests a leisurely contemplativeness in the bird, as if it were working out some problem quite at its leisure . . .

(Journal, 12:49-52)
16 March 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  2 P.M.—Thermometer 55; wind slight, west by south. To Abner Buttrick’s Hill . . .

  C. [William Ellery Channing] saw a green fly yesterday . . . (Journal, 13:196-198).

16 March 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A severe, blocking-up snow-storm (Journal, 14:328).
16 March. Concord, Mass. 1855.

Thoreau writes in his journal: “P. M. – To Conantum End…” (Journal, 7:249-52).

16 May 1838. Portland, Maine.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Portland (Journal, 1:49).
16 May 1839. Concord, Mass.
Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Virtue is the very heart and lungs of vice: it cannot stand up but it lean on virtue.

  Who hay not admired the twelve labors? And yet nobody thinks if Hercules had sufficient motive for racking his bones to that degree. Men are not so much virtuous as patrons of virtue, and every one knows that it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than the temporary guardian of it.

(Journal, 1:78-79)
16 May 1846. Concord, Mass.

Bronson Alcott writes in his journal that he holds an evening conversation about nature at Lucy Jackson Brown’s house with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau in attendance (Amos Bronson Alcott papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

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