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17 May 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp . . .

  It rains gently from time to time as I walk, but I see a farmer with his boys, John Hosmer, still working in the rain, bent on finishing his planting . . .

  Measured the large apple tree in front of the Charles Miles house . . .

  While I was measuring the tree, Puffer came along, and I had a long talk with him, standing under the tree in the cool sprinkling rain till we shivered . . .

(Journal, 10:427-431)
17 May 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys Factory Village land for Samuel Lees (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 9; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

17 May 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Quite a fog till 8 A.M., and plowed ground blackened with the moisture absorbed. J. Farmer send me to-day what is plainly Cooper’s hawk . . .

  P.M.—To J. Farmer’s . . . (Journal, 13:297-300).

17 May 1861. Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Go to Suspension Bridge & walk up the Canadian side. Completest view of Falls from that side. Pestered by coachman &c. &c. Clifton House commands best view of any public house. P.m. To river above falls. A man calls ducks coweens & says that the other ducks & geese, both wild & tame, alight in a mist & are often carried over falls. Catch with seine black & white bass, pickerel, muskelonge, &c. & under falls eels, catfish, &c. Find Indian pottery. In woods east of town, red-bellied woodpecker.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 2)
17 May 1862. Concord, Mass.

The Concord Monitor publishes “Walden,” a poem about Thoreau written by S. Ripley Bartlett.

17 November 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out The history of the progress and termination of the Roman republic, volume 2 by Adam Ferguson and The Shoshone valley; a romance by Timothy Flint from the library of the Institute of 1770 (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:84).

17 November 1837. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Now the king of day plays at bo-peep round the world’s corner, and every cottage window smiles a golden smile,—a very picture of glee. I see the water glistening in the eye. The smothered breathings of awakening day strike the car with an undulating motion; over hill and dale, pasture and woodland, come they to me, and I am at home in the world.
(Journal, 1:11)
17 November 1848.

Thoreau writes to Horace Greeley. Greeley replies 19 November (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 232).

New York, N.Y. The New-York Daily Tribune publishes excerpts from The Maine Woods:

THE BACKWOODS OF MAINE.

Under the title of “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” Mr. Henry D. Thoreau, of Concord, Mass. has been publishing a series of sketches in the Union Magazine, which are quite superior to any descriptions of wild-woods life that we have see for several years. There is all the freshness and odor of the pine-forests about them, and the language flows with as clear and sparkling a stream as the mountain rapids down which the author was whirled in his canoe. The region he traversed is almost entirely unvisited, except by trappers and lumbermen, and his narrative will be new to many of our readers. We have therefore made a number of extracts, characteristic of the life, scenery and soul of the wilderness. He commences as follows: . . .

 

17 November 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I found this afternoon, in a field of winter rye, a snapping turtle’s egg, white and elliptical like a pebble, mistaking it for which I broke it. The little turtle was perfectly formed, even to the dorsal ridge, which was distinctly visible.
(Journal, 2:101-102)
17 November 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  All things tend to flow to him who can make the best use of them, even away from their legal owner. A thief, finding with the property of the Italian naturalist Donati, whom lie had robbed abroad, a collection of rare African seeds, forwarded there to Linnæus from Marseilles. Donati suffered shipwreck and never returned.
(Journal, 3:122)

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