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2 May 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  6 A.M.—Is not the chipping sparrow the commonest heard in the village streets in the mornings now, sitting on an elm or apple tree? Was it the black and white warbler that I saw this morning ? It did not stop to creep round the trunks; was very shy. Or was it the myrtle-bird? Might it have been the log-cock woodpecker that I saw yesterday morning? Reptiles must not be omitted, especially frogs; their croaking is the most earthy sound now, a rustling of the scurf of the earth, not to be overlooked in the awakening of the year. It is such an earth-sound . . .
(Journal, 4:8-9)
2 May 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Our earliest gooseberry in garden has bloomed. What is that pondweed-like plant floating in a pool near Breed’s, with a slender stem and linear leaves and a small whorl of minute leaves on the surface, and nutlets in the axils of the leaves, along the stem, as if now out of bloom? Missouri currant.
(Journal, 5:118-119)
2 May 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The cracks in the ground made by the frost last winter are still quite distinct . . . (Journal, 6:234).
2 May 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—By boat up Assabet.

  Quince begins to leaf, and pear; perhaps some of last earlier. Aspen leaves of young trees—or twenty to twenty-five feet high—an inch long suddenly; say yesterday began; not till the 11th last year. Leafing, then, is differently affected by the season from flowering. The leafing is apparently comparatively earlier this year than the flowering. The young aspens are the first of indigenous trees . . .

(Journal, 7:351-352)
2 May 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The tea lee of the yellow-rump warbler in the street, at the end of a cool, rainy day (Journal, 8:322).
2 May 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Building a fence between us and Mrs. Richardson. In digging the holes I find the roots of small apple trees, seven or eight feet distant and four or more inches in diameter, two feet underground, and as big as my little finger . . .
(Journal, 9:350-351)
2 May 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Down river. The Salix Babylonica (fertile) behind Dodd’s is more forward than the alba by my boat . . .

  At mouth of the Mill Brook, I hear, I should say, the true R. halecina croak, i.e. with the faint bullfrog-like er-er-er intermixed . . .

(Journal, 10:394-395)
2 May 1859. Concord, Mass.
Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Small pewee and young lackey caterpillars.

  I see on the Salix rostrata by railroad many honeybees laden with large and peculiarly orange-colored pellets of its pollen.

  P.M.—Up Assabet . . .

  A peetweet and its mate at Mantatuket Rock. The river seems really inhabited when the peetweet is back and those little light-winged millers (?). This bird does not return to our stream until the weather is decidedly pleasant and warm. He is perched on the accustomed rock. Its note peoples the river, like the prattle of cattle onece more in the yard of a house that has stood empty . . .

(Journal, 12:174-175)
2 May 1860.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I notice this forenoon (11.30 A.M.) remarkably round-topped white clouds just like round-topped hills, on all sides of the sky, often a range of such, such as I do not remember to have seen before . . .

  P.M.—To stone-heaps and stone bridge . . .

  It was 63º at 2 P.M., and yet a good deal of coolness in the wind, so that I can scarcely find a comfortable seat . . .

(Journal, 13:270-273)

Philadelphia, Penn. L. Johnson & Company writes to Thoreau:

Mr. Henry D. Thoreau Concord Mass.

Dear Sir—

  Enclosed find Fifteen dollars in notes amt of your bill of 21st ult. Please acknowledge receipt.

Yours truly
L. Johnson & Co

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 578)
2 May 1862. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s sister Sophia writes to Edmund Hosmer’s daughter:

My dear Miss Hosmer,

  We remember your fathers kind offer to assist us in our affliction, and it will be very agreeable to us all if he can be with us tonight, please ask him if it is convenient. My dear brother has failed very much since your father last saw him.

Yours truly,
S. E. Thoreau

(Thoreau Society Bulletin 87 (Spring 1964):4)

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