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3 September 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A strong wind, which blows down much fruit. R. W. E. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] sits surrounded by choice windfall pears (Journal, 12:313).
3 September 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Bateman’s Pond.

  2 P.M.—River six and seven eighths above [summer level].

  Here is a beautiful, and perhaps first decidedly autumnal, clay,—a, cloudless sky, a clear air, with, maybe, veins of coolness . . .

(Journal, 14:71-72)
3 September 1861. Concord, Mass.

Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:

  Weather warm and cloudy. Spent the forenoon with Mr. [A. Bronson] Alcott in his study, Thoreau there part of the time. On our way visited an antiquarian collection of Mr. Davis in company with Sophia Thoreau and Mr. Thoreau. Dined with Mr. Alcott, his wife, and daughters Louisa and Abby. Returned to Thoreau’s for tea, walked this evening in the dark, got lost for a time, but by retracing my steps found my way again. Dark cloudy evening, warm. Talked with T. till ten.
(Daniel Ricketson and His Friends, 320)
3 through 7 December 1843. West Roxbury, Mass.

Thoreau visits Brook Farm (Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, 133-134).

30 and 31 August 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys land for George Minot (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 10; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

30 April 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe, volume 1 by Walter Wilson and Pinnock’s improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s abridgment of the History of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George II, with a continuation to the reign of George the Fourth, volumes 1 and 2 by Oliver Goldsmith from Harvard College Library.

(Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 286)
30 April 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Of some illuminated pictures which I saw last evening, one representing the plain of Babylon, with only a heap of brick-dust in the centre, and an uninterrupted horizon bounding the desert, struck me most. I would see painted a boundless expanse of desert, prairie, or sea, without other object than the horizon. The heavens and the earth,—the first and last painting,—where is the artist who shall undertake it?
(Journal, 1:78)
30 April 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of any man who has a depth of feeling in him? Not in any smooth and leisurely essay. From the gentlemanly windows of the country-seat no sincere eyes are directed upon nature, but from the peasant’s horn windows a true glance and greeting occasionally.
(Journal, 1:255-256)
30 April 1844. Concord, Mass.

After a boat trip on the Sudbury River, Thoreau and Edward Sherman Hoar decide to stop at Fair Haven Bay to cook some fish they had caught earlier in the day. They start a fire that quickly spreads to the surrounding woods (The Days of Henry Thoreau, 159-62). See entry 3 May.

30 April 1849. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s aunt Maria writes to Prudence Ward on 1 May:

  [Henry’s] last proof sheet went to Boston yesterday so I suppose his Book will soon be forthcoming (transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods; MS, private owner).

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