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27 December 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau retires as secretary of the Concord Lyceum (Concord Lyceum records. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

27 December 1842. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson reimburses Thoreau $2.52 for expenses on The Dial (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s account books. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

27 December 1850. Boston, Mass.

Samuel Cabot writes to Thoreau:

  On the 27th of December, 1850, Mr. Cabot wrote to say that the Boston Society of Natural History, of which he was secretary, had elected Thoreau a corresponding member, “with all the honores, privilegia, etc., ad gradum tuum pertinentia, without the formality of paying any entrance fee, or annual subscription. Your duties in return are to advance the interests of the Society by communications or otherwise, as shall seem good.”
(Familiar Letters of Thoreau, 226-227)

Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada… depuis l’an 1603; jusques en l’an 1629 by Samuel de Champlain from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 289; Thoreau’s Reading).

27 December 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Sunset from Fair Haven Hill . . . Venus—I suppose it is—is now the evening star, and very bright she is immediately after sunset in the early twilight (Journal, 3:158-159).
27 December 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Monday. Not a particle of ice in Walden to-day. Paddled across it. I took my new boat out. A black and white duck on it, Flint’s and Fair Haven being frozen up. Ground bare. River open . . .
(Journal, 4:432)
27 December 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  High wind with more snow in the night. The snow is damp and covers the panes, darkening the room. At first I did not know that more snow had fallen, it was so drifted . . .

  P.M.—To Fair Haven Pond up meadows and river . . .

(Journal, 6:29-30)
27 December 1854.

Nantucket, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Nantucket via Hyannis in misty rain . . .

  Captain Edward W. Gardiner (where I spent the night) thought there was a beach at Barnegat similar to that at Cape Cod . . .

  At Ocean house I copied from William Coffin’s Map of the town (1834) this: 30, 590 acres including 3 isles beside.

(Journal, 7:91-92)

New Bedford, Mass. The New Bedford Evening Standard reviews Thoreau lecture of 26 December:

  We are compelled to omit from want of room, our notice of the lyceum lecture last evening, by Mr. Thoreau of Concord. His subject was “Getting a Living.” The lecture displayed much thought, but was in some respects decidedly peculiar.
(“What Shall It Profit“)
27 December 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Recalled this evening, with the help of Mother, the various houses (and towns) in which I have lived and some various events of my life . . . (Journal, 8:64-67).

27 December 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Walden is still open in one place of considerable extent, just off the east cape of long southern bay (Journal, 9:198).
27 December 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A clear, pleasant day.

  P.M.—To Goose Pond.

  Tree sparrows about the weeds in the yard. A snowball on every pine plume, for there has been no wind to shake it down. The pitch pines look like trees heavily laden with snow oranges. The snowballs on their plumes are like a white fruit When I thoughtlessly strike at a limb with my hatchet, in my surveying, down comes a sudden shower of snow, whitening my coat and getting into my neck. You must be careful how you approach and jar the trees thus supporting a light snow . . .

(Journal, 10:225-229)

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