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25 December 1860. Concord, Mass.

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  P.M.: Thoreau is here and talks about Emerson’s last book. [The Conduct of Life] Thinks it is moderate, and wants the fire and force of the earlier books (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 330).

Thoreau writes in his journal on 26 December:

  Melvin sent to me yesterday a perfect Strix asio, or red owl of Wilson,—not at all gray (Journal, 14:294).
25 December. Concord, Mass. 1846.

Ralph Waldo Emerson gives Thoreau a copy of his Poems with the inscription “Henry D. Thoreau from R. W. E. 25 December, 1846” (Concord Saunterer, vol. 13 no. 2 (Summer 1978):17).

25 February 1829. Concord, Mass.
Henry D. Thoreau ends his first quarter of instruction at the Concord Academy. It is probable that Thoreau gave his first “declamation” on “The Death of Leonidas” about this time. Preceptor Allen noted that it was good (New England Quarterly 21 (March 1948):104-5; The Days of Henry Thoreau, 27-8).
25 February 1835. Cambridge, Mass., University Hall, room 7.

Thoreau and other sophomores are examined by the Committee of the Board of Overseers on three parts of Richard Whately’s Elements of Rhetoric. Committee members are John Brazer, Ezra S. Gannett, Sidney Willard, Ellis G. Loving, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:5, 15).

25 February 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes his poem “A Shrike” in his journal:

Hark! bark! from out the thickest fog
Warbles with might and main
The fearless shrike, as all agog
To find in fog his gain.
His steady sails he never furls
At any time o’ Year,
And, perched now on Winter’s curls,
He whistles in his ear.
(Journal, 1:74)
25 February 1847. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson pays Thoreau 50¢ for two copies of Graham’s Magazine (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s account books. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

25 February 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I saw at Hubbard’s Bridge that all the ice had been blown up-stream from the meadows, and was collected over the channel against the bridge in large cakes (Journal, 2:165-166).
25 February 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to his cousin George Thatcher:

Dear Cousin,—

  I should have answered you earlier if a wood merchant whom I engaged had kept his appointment. Measuring on Mr. Hubbard’s plans of ’36 and ’52, which I enlarged, [word] the whole area wanted for a cemetery 16 acres & 114 rods. This includes a path one rod wide on the north side of the wood next to the meadow, and is all of the Brown Farm north of the New Road, except the meadow of about 7 acres and a small triangle of about a dozen rods next to the Agricultural Land. The above result is probably accurate within half an acre; nearer I cannot come with certainty without a resurvey.

  9 acres & 9 rods are woodland, whose value I have got Anthony Wright, an old Farmer & now measurer of wood at the Depot, to assist me in determining. This is the result

  Oak chiefly 4A 53rd 156 Cords at $2.75 cord standing
                                      large & small 429

  White & Pitch Pine 3A 30rd 143½ Cords 2 287

  Pitch Pine 146rd 16½ Cords 2 41 25

  Young P Pine 100rd 5 cord 2 10

                          $767 25

  Merchantable green oak wood, piled on the cars, brings

  here 4.75 pr cord.

  Pitch pine 4.25

  White 2.50

  An acquaintance in Boston applied to me last October for a small farm in Concord, and the small amount of land 7 the want of a good house may prevent his thinking of the Dutch House place, & besides circumstances have transpired which I fear will prevent his coming here; however I will inform him at once that it is on the market. I do not know about the state of his funds, only that he was in no hurry, though in earnest, & limited me to $2000.

  All well

  Yours

  Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 321-322)
25 February 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Clear, cold, and windy. Thermometer at 7° at 7:30 A.M. Air filled with dust blowing over the fields. Feel the cold about as much as when it was below zero a month ago. Pretty good skating.
(Journal, 7:212)
25 February 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Walden and Fair Haven.

  The only bare ground is the railroad track, where the snow was shin. The crust still bears, and [I] left the railroad at Androrneda Ponds and went through on crust to Fair Raven. Was surprised to see some little minnows only an inch long in an open place in Well Meadow Brook. As I stood there, saw that they had just felled my bee tree . . .

(Journal, 8:186-188)

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