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19 July 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  In Concord.

  Young bobolinks; one of the first autumnalish notes. The early meadow aster out.

(Journal, 7:443)
19 July 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Marlborough Road via railroad and Dugan wood-lot . . .

  As I come by the apple tree on J. P. B.’s land, where I heard the young woodpeckers hiss a month or so ago, I now see that they have flown, for there is a cobweb over the hole.

  Plucked a handful of gooseberries at J. P. B.’s bush . . .

(Journal, 8:417)
19 July 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Smooth sumach out since the 16th (Journal, 9:484).
19 July 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Get home at noon . . .

  It is surprising how much more bewildering is a mountain-top than a level area of the same extent. Its ridges and shelves and ravines add greatly to its apparent extent and diversity. You may be separated from your party by only stepping a rod or two out of the path . . .

(Journal, 11:55-62)
19 July 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet.

  The architect of the river builds with sand chiefly, not with mud. Mud is deposited very slowly, only in the stagnant places, but sand is the ordinary building material.

  It is remarkable how the river, while it may be encroaching on the bank on one side, preserves its ordinary breadth by filling up the other side . . .

(Journal, 12:242-244)
19 July 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  2 P.M.—Up river in boat . . . We come to a standstill and study the pads in the J. Hosmer bulrush bog . . . (Journal, 13:407-410).
19 June 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The other day I rowed in my boat a free, even lovely young lady, and, as I plied the oars, she sat in the stern, and there was nothing but she between me and the sky (Journal, 1:144-145).
19 June 1843. Concord, Mass.

William Ellery Channing writes to Margaret Fuller:

  In Concord—nothing new. [Benjamin West] Ball has gone off—Thoreau writes back Thoreauacic letters, pulmonary enough, from Staten Island; he has seen the ocean, & says that from the hills, it looks as if was quite near, although it is someway off; he has never seen anything LARGE before!
(Studies in the American Renaissance 1989, 195)
19 June 1849. Boston, Mass.

The Boston Courier reviews the first and only issue of Æsthetic Papers, including Thoreau’s essay “Resistance to Civil Government”:

  We must dismiss Mr. Thoreau, with an earnest prayer that he may become a better subject in time, or else take a trip to France, and preach his doctrine of “Resistance to Civil Government” to the rest of the Red Republicans (Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 182 (Winter 1988):4).
19 June 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys a house lot on Main Street for Daniel Shattuck (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

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