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17 January 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Surveying for William O. Benjamin in east part of Lincoln. Saw a red squirrel on the wall, it being thawing weather. Human beings with whom I have no sympathy are far stranger to me than inanimate matter . . .
(Journal, 6:71-73)
17 January 1855. Worcester, Mass.

The Worcester Palladium reviews Thoreau’s lecture of 4 January (“What Shall It Profit”).

17 January 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Henry Shattuck tells me that the quails come almost every day and get some saba beans within two or three rods of his house,—some which he neglected to gather. Probably the deep snow drives them to it . . .
(Journal, 8:112)
17 January 1857. Concord, Mass.
Thoreau has an ambrotype taken, documented by Ellen Emerson in a letter to her father:

  Mr Thoreau has been here twice this week, once to dinner and once to tea. He went to have his Ambrotype taken to-day, and such a shocking, spectral, black and white picture as Eddy brought home in triumph was never seen. I am to carry it back and poor Mr Thoreau has got to go again (ETE, 1:125).
17 January 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Conantum.

  The common birch fungus, which is horizontal and turned downward, splits the bark as it pushes out very simply . . .

(Journal, 10:248)
17 January 1860.
Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Another mild day.

  P.M.—To Goose Pond and Walden.

  When I reached the open railroad causeway returning, there was a splendid sunset. The northwest sky at first was what you may call a lattice sky, the fair weather establishing itself first on that side in the form of a long and narrow crescent, in which the clouds, which were uninterrupted overhead, were broken into long bars parallel to the horizon . . .

(Journal, 13:92-94)

Boston, Mass. Samuel Ripley Bartlett writes to Thoreau (The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (ucsb.edu); MS, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.).

17 January 1862. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:

  Here dies, last week, the excellent Mary H. Russell; and I am ever threatened by the decays of Henry T. (The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 15:165).

Russell died 12 January 1862.

17 July 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau is awarded $25 in “exhibition money” for his academic achievement by the Harvard Corporation (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:14).

17 July 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Saturday. Cooler weather; a gentle steady rain, not shower; such coolness as rain makes; not sharp and invigorating, exhilarating, as in the spring, but thoughtful, reminding of the fall . . .

  Beck Stow’s Swamp! What an incredible spot to think of in town or city! When life looks sandy and barren, is reduced to its lowest terms, we have no appetite, and it has no flavor, then let me visit such a swamp as this, deep and impenetrable, where the earth quakes for a rod around you at every step, with its open water where the swallows skim and twitter, its meadow and cotton-grass . . .

(Journal, 4:230-232)
17 July 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Young toads not half an inch long at Walden shore. The smooth sumach resounds with the hum of bees, wasps, etc., at Water-target Pond . . . A duck at Goose Pond . . . (Journal, 5:317).

Thoreau writes in his journal on 23 July:

  The young pouts were two and a half inches long in Flint’s Pond the 17th (Journal, 5:325).

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