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10 October 1854. Plymouth, Mass.

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Again survey with Thoreau and [Marston] Watson.—Evening. Company at Hillside, and a conversation of Health; Thoreau and some of the ladies—Mrs Watson, the Misses Kendall, etc.—taking part.
(A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy, 2:484)
10 October 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A young man has just shown me a small duck which he shot in the river from my boat . . .

  Mr. William Allen, now here, tells me that when, some years ago, a stream near his house, emptying into the Taunton River, was drained, he found a plant on the bottom very similar to a sponge—of the same form and color—and say six inches wide.

(Journal, 7:485)
10 October 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  These are the finest days in the year, Indian summer. This afternoon it was 80°, between three and four, and at 6.30 this evening my chamber is oppressively sultry, and the thermometer on the north side of the house is at 64°. I lie with window wide open under a single sheet most of the night . . .
(Journal, 9:108-109)
10 October 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  This is the end of the sixth day of glorious weather, which I am tempted to call the finest in the years, so bright and serene the air and such a sheen from the earth, so brilliant the foliage, so pleasantly warm (except, perhaps, this day, which is cooler), too warm for a thick coat,—yet not sultry nor oppressive,—so ripe the season and our thoughts. Certainly these are the most brilliant days in the year, ushered in perhaps, by a frosty morning, as this. As a dewy morning in the summer compared with a parched and sultry, languid one, so a frosty morning at this season compared with a merely dry or foggy one. These days you may say the year has ripened like a fruit by frost, and puts on brilliant tints of maturity but not yet of decay . . .
(Journal, 10:82-85)
10 October 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Annursnack . . .

  As I go along the Groton road, I see afar, in the middle of E. Wood’s field, what looks like a stone jug or post, but my glass reveals it a woodchuck, a great, plump gray fellow, and when I am nearly half a mile off, I can still see him nibbling the grass there . . .

  I find the fringed gentian abundantly open at 3 and at 4 P.M . . .

(Journal, 11:203-205)
10 October 1859.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  White-throated sparrows in yard and close up to house, together with myrtle-birds (which fly up against side of house and alight on window-sills) and, I think, tree sparrows?

  Colder weather, and the cat’s fur grows (Journal, 12:374).

Boston, Mass. The Boston Atlas and Daily Bee, the Boston Daily Courier, and the Banner of Light review Thoreau’s lecture of 9 October (Studies in the American Renaissance 1996, 304-6).

10 October 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Horace Mann shows me the skeleton of a blue heron . . .

  P.M.—Went to a fire—or a smoke—at Mrs. Hoar’s . . . (Journal, 14:109-111).

10 September 1821. Boston, Mass.
The Thoreau family moves to “Whitwells’ House” at 4 Pinckney Street. They live there until about March 1823 (Journal, 8:65; Boston Directory for 1822, 229).
10 September 1839. Conway, New Hampshire.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Ascended the mountain and rode to Conway (Journal, 1:91).
10 September 1844. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s father purchases a plot of land from David Loring:

  David Loring to John Thoreau—Know all men by these Presents, That I, David Loring of Concord in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consideration of Twenty five dollars to me paid by John Thoreau, the receipt wherof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Thoreau a certain tract of land lying in said Concord bounded as follows commencing at the Southeasterly corner on a street and by land of Nathan W. Brook one hundred and seventy seven feet to a stake and stones, then westerly on land of the grantor one hundred and eighty feet to a stake and stones, then southerly on land of the grantor two hundred and five feet to said street, thence Easterly on said Street one hundred and seventy five feet to the bound first mentioned and containing about three fourths of an acres more or less.

  To have and to hold the above granted premises with the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, to the said Thoreau, his heirs and assigns, to their use and behoof forever. And I the said Loring for myself and my heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant with the said Thoreau, his heirs and assigns that I lawfully seized in fee of the afore granted premises; that they are free from all incumbrances, that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Thoreau, his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.

  In witness whereof, the said David Loring and Susan F. Loring wife of David in token of her relinquishment to right to Dower in the premises, have hereunto set our hands and seals this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four. Executed and delivered, David Loring (seal), Susan F. Loring (seal). in the presence of us, George Loring, Lydia A. Loring Middlesex ss. Sept. 10th, 1844. Then personally appeared the above named David Loring and acknowledged the above Instrument to his free (act) and deed, Before Me, Nathan Brooks, Justice of the Peace, Middlesex ss. Sept. 14, 1844. Rec’d & Recorded by Henry Stone (?), Reg.

(Thoreau Society Bulletin 191 (Spring 1990):5-6)

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