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17 February 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Gowing’s Swamp.

  On the hill at the Deep Cut on the new road, the ground is frozen about a foot deep, and they carry off lumps equal nearly to a cartload at a time. Moore’s man is digging a ditch by the roadside in his swamp . . .

(Journal, 6:125-127)
17 February 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The bridge at Sam Barrett’s caved in; also the Swamp Bridge on back road.

  Waded through water in the road for eight or ten rods, beyond Loring’s little bridge. It was a foot deep this morning . . . The fact is, the water is in each case dammed not only by the bridges and causeways but by the ice, so that it stands at as many levels as there are causeways.

(Journal, 7:189-193)
17 February 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Some three or four inches of snow fallen in the night . . . (Journal, 8:183).
17 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Thermometer at 1 P.M., 60°.

  The river is fairly breaking up, and men are out with guns after muskrats, and even boats. Some are apprehending loss of fruit from this warm weather. It is as open as the 3d of April last year, at least.

  P.M.—To the old Hunt house . . .

(Journal, 9:265-266)

Isaiah Williams writes to Thoreau:

  I came home from Cleveland and found yours of the 7th inst. I had an idea the map of Superior [indecipherable word]” (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 466).
17 February 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Cold and northwest wind, drifting the snow. 3 P.M., thermometer 14º . . .

  Minott says that he hears that Heard’s testimony in regard to Concord River in the meadow case was that “it is damned at both ends and cursed in the middle,” i.e. on account of the damage to the grass there . . . (Journal, 13:149-152).

17 February 1861. Concord, Mass.

William Ellery Channing writes to Mary Russell Watson mentioning Thoreau’s sickness (Emerson Society Quarterly, no. 14 (1st quarter 1959):78).

17 January 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau submits an essay on the prompt “Of keeping a private journal or record of our thoughts, feelings, studies, and daily experience, — containing abstracts of books, and the opinions we formed of them on first reading them,” for a class assignment given him on 20 December 1834. Thoreau is also given the prompt for his next essay, “We are apt to become what others (however erroneously) think us to be: hence another motive to guard against the power of others’ unfavorable opinion,” due on 31 January.

(Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:8; Early Essays and Miscellanies, 8-9)
17 January 1843. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau attends a lecture on “Peace” by Charles M. Spear at the Universalist Church (Thoreau Society Bulletin 183 (Spring 1988):4-5). See entry 24 January.

17 January 1847.

Bronson Alcott visits Thoreau at Walden Pond (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 186).

Horatio Robinson Storer writes a letter to Thoreau and Thoreau replies 15 February.

17 January 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Saw a teamster coming up the Boston road this afternoon, sitting on his load, which was bags of corn or salt, apparently, behind two horses and beating his hands for warmth. He finally got off and walked behind, to make his blood circulate faster, and I saw that he was a large man. But when I came near him, I found that he was a monstrous man and dwarfed all whom he stood by, so that I did not know whether he was large or they were small.
(Journal, 3:198-204)

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