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5 March 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Hill.

  See the tracks of a woodchuck in the sand-heap about the mouth of his hole, where he has cleared out his entry (Journal, 9:287-288).

5 March 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Went to hear a Chippeway Indian, a Doctor Mung-somebody,—assisted by a Penobscot, who said nothing. He made the audience laugh unintentionally by putting an m after the the word too . . . (Journal, 10:291-295).

Thoreau also writes to James Russell Lowell:

Dear Sir,

  I send you this morning, by the Concord & Cambridge expresses, some 80 pages of my Maine Story. There are about 50 pages more of it. I think that it is best divided thus. If, however, this is too long for you, there is a tolerable stopping place after the word “mouse” p. 74, which is about the middle of the whole.

  If there is no objection you can print the whole date 1853.

  I reserve the right to publish it in another form after it has appeared in your magazine.

  Will you please send me the proofs on account of Indian names &c- and also, if you print this, inform me how soon you would like the rest?

Yrs truly
Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 509)
5 March 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Going down-town this forenoon, I heard a white-bellied nuthatch on an elm within twenty feet, uttering peculiar notes and more like a song than I remember to have heard from it . . .

  P.M.—Up river to Well Meadow.

  The snow melts and sinks very rapidly. This spring snow is peculiarly white and blinding. The inequalities of the surface are peculiar and interesting when it has sunk thus rapidly. I see crows walking about on the ice half covered with snow in the middle of the meadows . . .

(Journal, 12:13-17)
5 March 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  George Buttrick thinks that forty musquash have been killed this spring between Hunt’s and Flint’s Bridge . . . (Journal, 13:180-182).
5 May 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, volumes 1 and 2 by William Godwin from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 287). While he reads over the next few days, he copies extracts from volume 2 (as well as volumes 3 and 4, which he didn’t take out of the library) into a notebook.

(The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:131-3)

Thoreau is absent from a meeting of the Institute of 1770 in which Institute member Charles Theodore Russell lectures on “Poetry.” He is selected to debate and lecture at the next meeting (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:82).

5 May 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out Oeuvres complètes, volume 7 by François Auguste René Chateaubriand from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 287).

5 May 1837. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau submits an essay on the prompt “Paley in his Natural Theology, chap. 23, speaks of minds utterly averse to ‘the flatness of being content with common reasons’—and considers the highest minds ‘most liable to this repugnancy.’ See the passage, and explain the moral or intellectual defect,” for a class assignment given him on 31 March.

(Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:13; Early Essays and Miscellanies, 101-6)
5 May 1838. Brunswick, Maine

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Portland to Bath—via Brunswick—Bath to Brunswick—May 5th (Journal, 1:47-148).
5 May 1840. Concord, Mass.

Ellen Sewall writes in her diary:

  Edmund seems to be very happy indeed. I am very glad he is with the Thoreaus and Grandma and Aunt . . .

  Grandma sent me a nice pair of cotton stockings in the bundle and John Thoreau sent me an arrowhead. Anything from him is acceptable. He sent Georgie some goldleaf.

(transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods; MS, private owner)
5 May 1843. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau receives $7.00 from Ralph Waldo Emerson for expenses for his trip to Staten Island (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s account books. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.). See entry 6 May.

Emerson writes to his brother William on 8 September:

  May 5 Cash to H. D Thoreau on a/c W E 7.00 (The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:206).

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