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Thoreau writes in his journal:

I walked to Acton, but might have skated well half or two thirds the way . . . (Journal, 11:387).

Thoreau writes in his journal:

P.M.—To Baker’s Bridge via Walden.

As we passed the almshouse brook this pleasant winter afternoon, at 2.30 P.M. (perhaps 20º, for it was 10º when I got home at 4.45), I saw vapor curling along over the open part by the roadside . . .

Saw four snow buntings by the railroad causeway, just this side the cut, quite tame. They arose and alighted on the rail fence as we went by. Melvin speaks of seeing flocks of them on the river meadows in the fall, when they are of a different color . . .

When a locomotive came in, just before the sun set, I saw a small cloud blown away from it which was a very rare but distinct violet purple . . .

(Journal, 13:71-72)

3 January 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

The third considerable snow-storm.

The berries which I celebrate appear to have a range—most of them—very nearly coterminous with what has been called the Algonquin Family of Indians, whose territories are now occupied by the Eastern, Middle, and Northwestern States and the Canadas, and completely surrounded those of the Iroquois, who occupied what is now the State of New York. These were the small fruits of the Algonquin and Iroquois families. The Algonquins appear to have described this kind of fruits generally by words ending in the syllables meenar.

It is true we have in the Northern States a few wild plums and inedible crab-apples, a few palatable grapes and nuts, but I think that our various species of berries are our wild fruits to be compared with the more celebrated ones of the tropics . . .

(Journal, 14:303-308)

3 January 1862. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes a receipt for George Hosmer:

Rec’d of Geo Hosmer twenty
dollars in full for one yr rent
of House to Jan 1st 1862
Henry D Thoreau for Maria Thoreau.

(Thoreau Research Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1990):8)

3 July 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau is voted into the Institute of 1770, a debating and fraternal organization (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:81-89).

3 July 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard University’s third term of the year ends. Thoreau is awarded 222 points for work done before his withdrawal, but an error leaves his grand total at 10,290 (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:17).

3 July 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

In music are the centripetal and centrifugal forces. The universe needed only to hear a divine harmony that every star might fall into its proper place and assume a true sphericity (Journal, 1:158-160).

3 July 1841. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his brother William:

You will like Margaret Fuller’s article on Goethe in the Dial—and Mrs Geo. Ripleys [Sophia Dana Ripley] ‘ letter from Zoar. A Mr Saxton of Greenfield writes I believe on Transcendence. There is a copy of verses by Henry Thoreau—and one little Spenserian sonnet to me! O pudor! by Ellery Channing nothing of mine but the little paragraph about J. Very.

(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:413)

3 July 1847. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Evert Duyckinck:

Dear Sir,

I sent you my Mss.* this (Saturday) morning by Augustus Adams’ and Harnden’s expresses, and now write this for greater security, that you may inform me if it does not arrive duly. If Mr. [George P.] Putnam is not likely to return for a considerable time yet, will you please inform

Yrs &c
Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 184)

* A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. See also entries 27 July and 28 August 1847.

3 July 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

From Deep Cut over Fair Haven; back by Potter’s path; 5 P.M.

The yellow lily (Giliura Canadense) is out, rising above the meadow-grass, sometimes one, sometimes two. Young woodchucks, sitting in their holes, allow me to come quite near . . .

(Journal, 4:176-179)

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