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23 June 1861. Red Wing, Minn.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Leave St. Paul for Red Wing at 9 ½ A.M. Get to Red Wing at 2 P.M. (Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 23).

Horace Mann Jr. writes to his mother Mary:

  We went to the Merchants Hotel and staid over night, and started in the morning at 9:30 to come down here and arrived a few minutes after 2 P.M. We got a room at the Metropolitan House which is right on the landing and then went up on top of the Red-wing bluff which is about a dozen rods off and I can look right at it out of this window. I see three ladies on top of it now… We found a strawberry and a pigweed upon it besides other plants… We think of returning home from here through La Crosse, Milwaukee, Mackinaw, Detroit, Hamilton, Ogdensburg and home, though we may vary it more or less as we feel at the time. I do not know as I have any more to say except that I am very well, and Mr. Thoreau is getting along pretty well.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 56-58)
23 March 1837. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out an unidentified item recorded as “Book of Shipwrecks” from the library of the Institute of 1770 (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:86).

Thoreau also checks out Lectures on the English poets by William Hazlitt and Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful by Edmund Burke from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 288).

23 March 1840. Concord, Mass.

Edmund Quincy Sewall Jr. writes in his journal on 28 March:

  I came here last Monday afternoon in the stage. I left Father at Boston whither we had come in the chaise. I am to go to Messrs Thoreaus school for 3 months. There are three other boys who board here and go to the school–Charles [Henry Cummings] Jesse [Harding] & Joseph. Charles came up with me in the stage.
(MS, “E. Q. Sewall Diary,” Sewall Family papers. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.)
23 March 1842. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Plain speech is always a desideratum. Men write in a florid style only because they would match the simple beauties of the plainest speech. They prefer to be misunderstood, rather than come short of its exuberance (Journal, 1:342-345).
23 March 1849. Portland, Maine.

The Eastern Argus Semi-Weekly reviews Thoreau lecture of 21 March:

   . . . the subject was announced as “Home, or Domestic Economy” but the real topic was “MYSELF-I.” The lecture was unique, original, comical, and high-falutin. It kept the audience wide awake, and pleasantly excited for nearly two hours.
23 March 1850. New York, N.Y.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his wife Lidian:

  Will you not now say to Mr Thoreau, that I beg he will give me a day of attention to my vines, which were laid down last fall & which it is I suppose now quite late enough to uncover and train. James [Burke?] will not know anything about them, and I hope Henry will undertake it; both those on the trellises, and those which we set our last fall, by hands of James, round the Mr [Amos Bronson] Alcott’s summer house. Then if he can further reestablish our fallen arbour in the great path and he may set new posts, if he will, I shall be very glad to pay the bill.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:187)
23 March 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The ice still remains in Walden, though it will not bear. Mather Howard saw a large meadow near his house which had risen up but was prevented from floating away by the bushes (Journal, 2:172).
23 March 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I heard, this forenoon, a pleasant jingling note from the slate-colored snow bird on the oaks in the sun on Minott’s hillside. Apparently they sing with us in the pleasantest days before they go northward. Minott thinks that the farmers formerly used their meadow-hay better, gave it more sun, so that the cattle liked it as well as the English now . . .
(Journal, 3:358)
23 March 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  5 A.M.—I hear the robin sing before I rise.

  6 A.M.—Up the North River . . .

  P.M.—To Howard’s meadow.

  The telegraph harp sounds more commonly, now that westerly winds prevail . . . The ice went out of Walden this forenoon . . . The pads at Howard’s meadow are very forward . . . I go to look for mud turtles in Heywood’s meadow.

(Journal, 5:41-46)
23 March 1854.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Thursday. Snows and rains a little . . . Minott confesses to me to-day that he has not been to Boston since the last war, or 1815. Aunt said that he had not been ten miles from home since; that he has not been to Acton since Miss Powers [?] lived there . . .
(Journal, 6:175)

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

Dear Thoreau,

  I am glad your “Walden” is coming out. I shall announce it at once, whether Ticknor does or not.

  I am in no hurry now about your Miscellanies; take your time, select a good title, and prepare your articles deliberately and finally. Then if Ticknor will give you something worth having, let him have this too; if proffering it to him is to glut your market, let it come to me. But take your time. I was only thinking you were hybernating when you ought to be doing something. I referred (without naming you) to your ‘Walden’ experience in my lecture on “Self-Culture,” with which I have bored every so many audiences. This episode excited much interest and I have repeatedly been asked who it is that I refer to.

Yours,

Horace Greeley.

P.S. You must know Miss Elizabeth Hoar, whereas I hardly do. Now I have agreed to edit Margaret’s works, and I want of Elizabeth a letter or memorandum of personal recollections of Margaret and her ideas. Can’t you ask her to write it for me?

Yours,

H. G.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 324)

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