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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his wife Lidian:

Tis certain that the M[assachusetts]. Q[uarterly]. J[ournal]. will fail unless Henry Thoreau & [Amos Bronson] Alcott & [William Ellery] Channing and Charles Newcomb,—the fourfoldvisaged four,—fly to the rescue . . . I have not ventured at this long space to say anything of garden or orchard. Henry & Mr [Edmund?] Hosmer must advise & act or rather Henry by & with the counsel & practice of Hosmer The main object is the trees; and there is a good heap of manure, & more to be made by bringing peat to the sewer in the garden. But we ought, I suppose, to have good corn & potatoes also. I hope Henry will not decline to arrange it. He says I do not write to him, or you say it, but I have, almost sheet for sheet, as I believe.

(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:56-58)

20 April 1849. Worcester, Mass.

Thoreau lectures at Worcester City Hall on “Economy” (Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 175).

20 April 1852.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

Morning.—Storms still. The robin sings unfailingly each morning at, the time the sun should rise, in spite of dreary rain. Some storms have much more wet in them than others, though they look the same to one in the house, and you cannot walk half an hour without being wet through, while in the others you may keep pretty dry a whole afternoon . . .

(Journal, 3:446-447)

New York, N.Y. Horace Greeley writes to Thoreau:

Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 17th. I am rather sorry you will not do the Works and Ways; but glad that you are able to employ your time to better purpose.

But your Quebeck notes don’t reach me yet, and I fear the `good time’ is passing. They ought to have appeared in the June Nos. of the Monthlies, but now cannot before July. If you choose to send them to me all in a bunch, I will try to get them printed in that way. I don’t care about them if you choose to reserve or to print them elsewhere; but I can better make a use for them at this season than at any other.

Yours,
Horace Greeley.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 281)

20 April 1853. Haverhill, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Saw a toad and a small snake (Journal, 5:111).

20 April 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

A.M.—To Nawshawtuct . . .

P.M.—To Island and Hill.

A willow coming out fairly, with honey-bees humming on it, in a warm nook,—the most forward I have noticed, for the cold weather has held there in check. And now different kinds of bees and flies about them. What a sunny sight and summer sound! A striped snake on a warm, sunny bank. The painted tortoises are fairly out sunning to-day. A very pleasant and warm afternoon; the earth seems to be waking up . . .

4 P.M.—To Moore’s Swamp . . .

At starlight by riverside a few faint stertorous sounds from the. awakening meadow, and one or two faint bullfrogish notes,—er-er-er. The sound of the snipes, winnowing; the evening air now at starlight, visible but for an instant high over the meadows, is heard far into the village . . .

(Journal, 6:207-208)

20 April 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Rains all day, taking out the frost and imprisoning me. You cannot set a post yet on account of frost (Journal, 7:324).

20 April 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Rain, rain, rain,—a northeast storm. I see that it is raising the river somewhat . . . (Journal, 8:294-295).

20 April 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Arbor-vitae apparently in full bloom (Journal, 9:332).

20 April 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal: