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24 November 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out the North American Review, no. 93 and Shakespeare’s Romances, volumes 1 and 2 from the library of the Institute of 1770 (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:84).

24 November 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Plucked a buttercup on Bear Hill to-day (Journal, 2:109-110).
24 November 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Setting stakes in the swamp (Ministerial) . . . The Irishman who helped me says, when I ask why his countrymen to not learn trades,—do something but the plainest and hardest work,—they are too old to learn trades when they come here.
(Journal, 3:130)
24 November 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  At this time last year the andromeda in the Ministerial Swamp was red. Now it has not turned from brown (Journal, 4:416).
24 November 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Ice forms on my boat at 5 P.M., and what was mud in the street is fast becoming a rigid roughness . . . Methinks we have had clear yellow sunsets and afterglows this month, like this to-night (not glowing red ones), with perhaps an inclination to blue and greenish clouds.
(Journal, 5:519)
24 November 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Geese went over on the 13th and 19th, on the 17th the first snow fell, and the 19th it began to be cold and blustering. That first slight snow has not yet gone off! and very little has been added. The last three or four days have been quite cold, the sidewalks a glare of ice and very little melting. To-day has been exceedingly blustering and disagreeable, as I found while surveying for Moore . . .
(Journal, 8:33-34)
24 November 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Some poets have said that writing poetry was for youths only, but not so. In that fervid and excitable season we only get the impulse which is to carry us onward in our future career. Ideals are then exhibited to us distinctly which all our lives after we may aim at but not attain. The mere vision is little compared with the steady corresponding endeavor thitherward. It would be vain for us to be looking ever into promised lands toward which in the meanwhile we were not steadily and earnestly travelling, whether the way led over a mountain-top or through a dusky valley . . .
(Journal, 10:199-202)
24 November 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Cliffs and Walden . . .

  When I looked out this morning, the landscape presented a very pretty wintry sight, little snow as there was . . .

  Saw a scarlet oak some sixteen inches in diameter at three feet from ground blown down evidently in that southeast wind some months ago . . .

(Journal, 11:340-342)
24 November 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  See, on the railroad-slope by the pond, and also some days ago, a flock of goldfinches eating the seed of the Roman wormwood . . . (Journal, 12:450).

Thoreau also writes to Calvin Greene:

Dear Sir,

  The lectures which you refer to were reported in the newspapers, after a fashion, the last one in some half dozen of them, and if I possessed one, or all, of those reports I would send them to you, bad as they are. The best, or at least longest one of the Brown Lecture was in the Boston “Atlas & Bee” of Nov 2nd. Maybe half the whole. There were others in the Traveller – the Journal &c of the same date.

  I am glad to know that you are interested to see my things. & I wish that I had them in a printed form to send to you. I exerted myself considerably to get the last discourse printed & sold for the benefit of Brown’s family – but the publishers are afraid of pamphlets & it is now too late.

  I return the stamps which I have not used.

  I shall be glad to see you if I ever came your way

Yours truly
Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 566)
24 November 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Easterbrooks’s.

  Under the two white oaks by the second wall southeast of my house, on the east side the wall, I am surprised to find a great many sound acorns still, though every one is sprouted . . .

  It is true these two trees are exceptions and I do not find sound ones nearly as numerous under others . . . It will he worth the while to see how many of these sprouted acorns are left and are sound in the spring . . .

(Journal, 14:263-265)

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