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22 August 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Great Meadows on foot along bank into Bedford meadows; thence to Beck Stow’s and Gowing’s Swamp . . . This was a prairial walk. I went along the river and meadows from the first, crossing the Red Bridge road to the Battle-Ground . . .
(Journal, 6:463-466)
22 August 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I hear of some young barn swallows in the nest still in R. Rice’s barn, Sudbury (Journal, 7:452).
22 August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Fair weather at last.

  P.M.—Up Assabet.

  Owing to the rain of the 8th and before, two days and two nights, the river rose to within six inches of the top of Hoar’s wall. It had fallen about one half, when the rain began again on the night of the 20th, and again continued about two nights and two days, though so much did not fall as before ; but, the river being high, it is now rising fast. The Assabet is apparently at its height, and rushing very swiftly past the Hemlocks . . .

(Journal, 9:13-4)
22 August 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  [William Ellery] Channing has brought me from Plymouth and [Benjamin Marston] Watson Drosera filiformis, just out of bloom, from Great South Pond, Solidago tenuifolia in bloom, Sabbatia chlorides, and Coreopsis rosea . . .
(Journal, 10:9)
22 August 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—I have spliced my old sail to a new one, and now go out to try it in a sail to Baker Farm. I like it much. It pulls like an ox, and makes me think there’s more wind abroad than there is . . . (Journal, 11:116-118).
22 August 1859.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The circles of the blue vervain flowers, now risen near to the top, show how far advanced the season is . . .

  Riding to the factory, I see the leaves of corn, planted thick for fodder, so rolled by the drought that I mistook one row in grass for some kind of rush or else reed, small and terete . . .

(Journal, 12:289-290)

Boston, Mass. Hobart & Robbins writes to Thoreau:

Mr Henry D. Thoreaux Concord, Mass.

  Please send by return Express 6 lbs best Black Lead & Enclosed please find Nine Dollars to pay for the same—

  Send a receipt.

Yrs Resp’y &c
Hobart & Robbins

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 555; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series IV): Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)
22 August 1861. New Bedford, Mass.

Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:

  Long talk with my friend Thoreau on various matters this A.M. Rode this P.M. round by White’s factory with T. Walked over the ridge road called the ‘Back-bone of Acushnet’ with Thoreau (Daniel Ricketson and His Friends, 318).
22 August. Concord, Mass.
Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P. M.—Row to Bittern Cliff . . .

  Returning down the river, when I get to Clamshell I see great flocks of the young red-wings and some crow blackbirds on the trees and the ground . . . (Journal, 14:55-60).

22 December 1837. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  About a year ago, having set aside a bowl which had contained some rhubarb grated in water, without wiping it, I was astonished to find, a few days afterward, that the rhubarb had crystallized, covering the bottom of the bowl with perfect cubes, of the color and consistency of glue, and a tenth of an inch in diameter.
(Journal, 1:21)
22 December 1839. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his aunt, Mary Moody Emerson:

  Then we have Henry Thoreau here who writes genuine poetry that rarest product of New England wit (The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:244).

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