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30 October 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Charles Sumner:

  These faithful reports with their admirable maps and plates, are some atonement for the mistakes of our Government . . . (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 347).
30 October 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Going to the new cemetery, I see that the scarlet oak leaves have still some brightness; perhaps the latest of the oaks” (Journal, 7:527).

New York, N.Y. Kennedy Furlong writes to Thoreau (Studies in the American Renaissance 1982, 366; MS, private owner).

30 October 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Another, the eighth, day of cloudy weather, though no rain to-day . . .

  There’s a very large and complete circle round the moon this evening, which part way round is a faint rainbow. It is a clear circular space, sharply and mathematically cut out of a thin mackerel sky. You see no mist within it, large as it is, nor even a star . . .

(Journal, 10:147-148)
30 October 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Rain and wind, bringing down the leaves and destroying the little remaining brilliancy . . .

  I see that Prichard’s mountain ash (European) has lately put forth new leaves when all the old have fallen, and they are four or five inches long! . . . (Journal, 11:263-264).

30 October 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “The Character and Actions of Capt. John Brown” at the First Parish Meetinghouse.

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Thoreau reads a paper of his on John Brown, his virtues, spirit, and deeds, at the Vestry this evening, and to the delight of his company I am told—the best that could be gathered on short notice, and among them Emerson. I am not informed in season, and have my meeting at the same time. I doubt not of its excellence and eloquence, and wish he may have opportunities of reading it elsewhere.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 320)
30 October 1860.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Tarbell pitch pines, etc.

  Quite a sultry, cloudy afternoon,—hot walking in woods and lowland where there is no air . . .

  Examine Tarbell’s pitch pine grove. This is all of one age and very dense. The largest trees on the north side, as estimated by sawing a branch, are twenty-eight to thirty years old. Tarbell says this grove came up in 189-6 on land which had been burnt over,—in fact open land . . .

(Journal, 14:191-198)

Cambridge, Mass. Welch, Bigelow & Company writes to Thoreau:

Mr H D Thoreau

Dear Sir

  Please send us another installment of Black Lead as before. Only you should pay express chg. to Boston as heretofore with the exception of the last

Yours truly
Welch Bigelow & Co

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 595; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series IV). Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)
30 September 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out A Voyage to Cochinchina in 1792 and 1793 by Sir John Barrow and Journal of a Visit to Parts of Ethiopia by George Waddington and Barnard Hanbury from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 286-7).

30 September 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau submits an essay on the prompt “The Love of stories, real or fabulous, in young and old. Account for it, and show what good use it may serve,” for a class assignment given him on 16 September (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:12; Early Essays and Miscellanies, 45-7).

30 September 1839. Concord, Mass.

Prudence Bird Ward writes to a friend:

  The young gentlemen returned from their expedition to the White Mountains in less than a fortnight; having gone nearly to Concord, N.H., in their boat,—from there they travelled most of the way on foot, returning to their boat by stage. Their return was very expeditious,—coming in the boat fifty miles the last day. Having so much of his vacation left, John thought he would go visit his sisters at Roxbury, and also go to Scituate. We knew not for certain whether Mr. Sewall would be gone. It seems he had set off that very day. John enjoyed himself, however, very well with Ellen and the boys. Caroline told you of the very pleasant visit we had from Ellen; and we have heard directly from there by John Thoreau. A slight notice of John’s visit also came from Ellen to her aunt, accompanying some flowers pressed in a pamphlet sermon, on the inside of which the maiden wrote, “I have enjoyed Mr. John’s visit exceedingly, though sorry that father and mother were not at home.” How sorry she was for their absence we may well imagine.
(The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, 1:6-7)
30 September 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

Better wait
Than be too late.
(Journal, 1:287)

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