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20 February 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I have caught another of those mice of February 16th and secured it entire,—a male. Hind legs the longest, though only the feet, about three quarters of an inch in length, are exposed, without the fur. Of the fore legs a little more is exposed than the hands or perhaps four to five eighths of an inch, clays concealed in tufts of white hair. The upper jaw projects about half an inch beyond the lower. The whole upper parts are brown, except the cars, from the snout to the tip of the tail . . .
(Journal, 7:197-202)
20 February 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet.

  See a broad and distinct otter-trail, made last night or yesterday. It came out to the river through the low woods north of Pinxter Swamp, making a very conspicuous trail . . .

(Journal, 8:183-184)
20 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  this morning the ground is once more covered about one inch deep.

  Minott says that the house he framed and set up by Captain Isaac Hoar just beyond the old house by Moore’s, this side the one he was born in, his mother’s (?) house (whose well is that buried by Alcott on the sidewalk), and there the frame stood several years . . .

  I wish that there was in every town, in some place accessible to the traveller, instead [of] or beside the common directories, etc., a list of the worthies of the town, i.e. of those who are worth seeing . . .

(Journal, 9:273-275)
20 February 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Have just read “Counterparts, or the Cross of Love,” by the author of “Charles Auchester” . . .

  P.M.—The rain ceases, and it clears up at 5 P. M. . . . (Journal, 11:451-453).

20 February 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—I see directly in front [of] the Depot Lee [?] house, on the only piece of bare ground I see hereabouts, a large flock of lesser redpolls feeding . . .

  J. Farmer tells me that his grandfather once, when moving some rocks in the winter, found a striped squirrel frozen stiff. He put him in his pocket, and when he got home laid him on the hearth, and after a while he was surprised to see him running about the room as lively as ever he was . . .

(Journal, 13:156-157)
20 February 1862. Concord, Mass.

In a letter dictated to his sister Sophia, Thoreau writes to Ticknor & Fields:

Messrs Ticknor & Fields,

  I send you herewith, the paper called Autumnal Tints. I see that it will have to be divided, & I would prefer that the first portion terminate with page 42, in order that it may make the more impression. The rest I think will take care of itself.

  I may as well say now that on pages 55-6-7-8 I have described the Scarlet Oak leaf very minutely. In my lecturing I have always carried a very large & handsome one displayed on a white ground, which did me great service with the audience. Now if you will read those pages, I think that you will see the advantage of having a simple outline engraving of this leaf & also of the White Oak leaf on the opposite page, that the readers may the better appreciate my words—I will supply the leaves to be copied when the time comes.

  When you answer the questions in my last note, please let me know about how soon this article will be published.

Yours respectfully,
Henry D. Thoreau
by S. E. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 536-537)
20 January 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out Oeuvres, volumes 1 and 2 by Jean Racine from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 287).

20 January 1837. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau submits an essay on the “Characteristics of the Speeches of the Devils in Paradise Lost, Book II,” for a class assignment given him on 16 December 1836 (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:12; The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:184; Early Essays and Miscellanies, 79-83).

20 January 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes his poems “The Dream Valley” and “Love” in his journal:

LOVE
We two that planets erst had been
Are now a double star,
And in the heavens may be seen,
Where that we fixed are.

Yet, whirled with subtle power along,
Into new space we enter,
And evermore with spheral song
Revolve about one centre.

(Journal, 1:71-72)
20 January 1843. Philadelphia, Penn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his wife Lidian:

  You tell me or Elizabeth [Elizabeth Hoar] does of a letter from Henry—I have received none, & shall look for it every day. All that you say of him, I heartily hear. Henry Hedge rejoices in his Prometheus, and believes the Dial a valuable book, however it fare as a journal. At Baltimore I saw Mr Morrison, [Horace Morison] Henry’s classmate who sent his respects to him. He seems to be thriving there as the President & Professors in his single person of the “University of Maryland.” By the look of his pupils & lecture room, I should call it a school. Do not fail to tell me every particular concerning Henry’s lecture when that comes—and the brightest star of the winter shed its clear beams on that night!
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:129)

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