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18 July 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes his poem “The Assabet” in his journal:

. . .
Rivers from the sun do flow,
Springing with the dewy morn;
Voyageurs ‘gainst time do row,
Idle noon nor sunset know,
Ever even with tile dawn.

Since that first “Away! away!”
Many a lengthy league we’ve rowed,
Still the sparrow on the spray
Hastes to usher in the day
With her simple stanza’d ode.

(Journal, 1:84-86)
18 July 1841. Concord, Mass.

Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her husband Ralph Waldo:

  You will think my nature changing as well as Mother’s & Henry’s . . . Henry sends you some verses which you will doubtless greet with pleasure (The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 95-6).
18 July 1842. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes his poem “The Funeral Bell” in his journal (Journal (1981, Princeton), 1:433-434).

18 July 1846. Concord, Mass.

Bronson Alcott writes in his journal that Thoreau has supper with him and talks interestingly (Amos Bronson Alcott papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

18 July 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I first heard the locust sing, so dry and piercing, by the side of the pine woods in the heat of the day (Journal, 2:315-316).
18 July 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Sunday. 8.30 A.M.—To the Sudbury meadows in boat.

  Peter Bobbins says that the rain of yesterday has not reached the potatoes, after all. Exorbitant potatoes! It takes a good deal to reach them,—serious preaching to convert them . . .

  After passing Hubbard’s Bridge, looking up the smooth river between the rows of button-bushes, willows, and pads, we see the sun shining on Fair Haven Hill behind a sun-born cloud, while we are in shadow,—a misty golden light, yellow, fern-like, with shadows of clouds flitting across its slope,—and horses in their pasture standing with outstretched necks to watch us . . .

(Journal, 4:232-239)
18 July 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  8.30 A.M.—To Sudbury meadows with W.E.C. [William Ellery Channing] by boat . . .

  Hardhack in bloom perhaps a day or two. The button-bush beginning to open generally. The late, or river, rose spots the copses over the water,—a great ornament to the river’s brink now . . .

(Journal, 5:317-319)
18 July 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  5 A.M.—Up Turnpike . . .

  P.M.—To Sam Barrett’s by boat, and old Wheeler house . . . (Journal, 6:401-405).

Boston, Mass. James T. Fields writes to Nicholas Trübner, in London, England:

By mail pr steamer of the 19th from this port we send a copy of a new and very original book called “Walden”, or Life in the Woods by Thoreau, It is sent to you to dispose of to some London publisher for the most you can obtain . . . You can show it to . . . [Richard Bentley] first if you please. It belongs to the same class of works with Mr. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson’s writings & will be likely to attract attention. We shall publish it here about one month from date. You will please be particular about this matter as Walden is no common book & is sure to succeed . . .

  P.S. July 21, 1854. Send 2d copy pr Mail from N.Y. of 22d.

(The Cost Books of Ticknor & Fields and their predecessors, 1832-1858, 290)
18 July 1855. Boston, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Leave Small’s . . . Came up in the Olata, Captain Freeman, a fine yacht. Little wind; were half past eight into candle-light on water . . . (Journal, 7:443).
18 July 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Wheeler meadow to look at willows.

  Again scare up a woodcock, apparently seated or sheltered in shadow of ferns in the meadow on the cool mud in the hot afternoon . . .

(Journal, 8:416-417)

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