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11 August 1854.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

P.M.—To Assabet Bath . . . (Journal, 6:432).

Thoreau also writes to James T. Fields.

Providence, R.I. Walden is reviewed by the Providence Journal.

Salem, Mass. Walden is reviewed by the Salem Gazette.

11 August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

This morning the river is an inch and a half higher, or within eight inches of the top of Hoar’s wall.

The other evening, returning down the river, I think I detected the convexity of the earth within a short distance. I saw the western landscape and horizon, reflected in the water fifty rods behind me, all lit up with the reflected sky . . .

P.M.—Walk to Conantum with Mr. Bradford.
He gives me a sprig of Cassia Marilandica, wild senna, found by Minot Pratt just below Leighton’s by the roadside . How long? P. thought it in prime August 10th. Aster puniceus a day or more. A new sunflower at Wheeler’s Bank . . .

7 P.M.—The river has risen about two inches today, and is now within six inches of the top of Hoar’s wall.

(Journal, 8:461-462)

11 August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

This morning the river is an inch and a half higher, or within eight inches of the top of Hoar’s wall.

7 P.M.—The river has risen about two inches today, and is now within six inches of the top of Hoar’s wall.

(Journal, 8:461-2)

11 August 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes, in his journal:

Red cohosh berries well ripe in front of Hunt’s, perhaps a week or more,—a small round, conical spike, two and a half inches long by one and three quarters, of about thirty cherry-red berries. The berries oblong, seven sixteenths of an inch by six sixteenths, with a seam on one side, on slender pedicels about five eighths of an inch long . . .

(Journal, 10:8)

11 August 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

P.M.—To Beck Stow’s . . .

I go along plum path behind Adolphus Clark’s. This is a peculiar locality for plants . . . (Journal, 11:91-94).

11 August 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

A.M.—Up Assabet to stone bridge . . . (Journal, 12:283-284).

11 August 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Panicum capillare; how long? Cyperus strigosus; how long? (Journal, 14:53).

11 December 1844. New York, N.Y.

William Ellery Channing writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:

I see more of [Giles] Waldo, last Saturday. We walked down to Staten Island. Here, is a good disorganized condition, a sort of moderate Thoreau, Thoreau with the Stoic & Pompous element dried out, but it cant bear fruit, anymore than Thoreau. These young men who know nothing about home or family, who dont know that home or family means, what can they do? Their hearts are not as hard as the nether mill stone, but they are as useless as if they were as hard. I dont pity them, nor care anything about them. They are blind; they are unfused.

(Studies in the American Renaissance 1989, 214)

11 December 1848. Lincoln, Mass.

James Lorin Chapin writes in his journal:

Another pleasant day. Came home in the morning stopping in town to see Mr. Henry D. Thoreau and see if he would go and lecture before the Lyceum at Lincoln to morrow evening. he could not go and gave as a reason ill health. Said he would go at some future time.

(Concord Saunterer, 15, no. 3 (December 1984):23)

11 December 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

P.M.—To Heywood’s Pond and up brook . . .

R.W.E. told me that W.H. Channing conjectured that the landscape looked fairer when we turned our heads, because we beheld it with nerves of the eye unused before. Perhaps this reason is worth more for suggestion than explanation. It occurs to me that the reflection of objects in still water is in a similar manner fairer than the substance, and yet we do not employ unused nerves to behold it. Is it not that we let much more light into our eyes,-which in the usual position are shaded by the brows,—in the first case by turning them more to the sky, and in the case of the reflections by having the sky placed under our feet? . . .

(Journal, 6:16-17)

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