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6 August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Copious and continuous rain in the night, deluging, soaking rain, with thunder and lightning, beating down the crops; and this morning it is cooler and clearer and windier.

  P.M.—To Walden.

  The wind, or motion of the air, makes it much cooler on the railroad causeway or hills, but in the woods it is as close and melting as before . . .

(Journal, 8:448-9)
6 August 1857. Bucksport, Maine.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A.M.—To the high hill and ponds in Bucksport, some ten or more miles out.

  A withdrawn, wooded, and somewhat mountainous country. There was a little trout-pond just over the highest hill, very muddy, surrounded by a broad belt of yellow lily pads. Over this we pushed with great difficulty on a rickety raft of small logs, using poles thirty feet long, which stuck in the mud . . .

(Journal, 9:502-503)
6 August 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Walk to Boulder Field . . .

  Emerson [Ralph Waldo Emerson] is gone to the Adirondack country with a hunting party. Eddy [Edward Emerson] says he has carried a double-barrel gun, one side for shot, the other for ball . . .

(Journal, 11:76-79)
6 August 1860. Mt. Monadnock, N.H.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  At 4 A.M. see local lake-like fogs in some valleys below, but there is none here . . .

  This forenoon, after a breakfast on cranberries, leaving, as usual, our luggage concealed under a large rock, with other rocks placed over the hole, we moved about a quarter of a mile along the edge of the plateau eastward and built a new camp there . . .

  At 5 P. M. we went to our first camp for our remaining baggage . . .

  Returned to enjoy the evening at the second camp . . .

(Journal, 14:16-22)
6 December 1834. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau submits an essay with the prompt “Give your idea of the anxieties and Delights of a Discoverer of whatever class, Columbus, Herschel, Newton,” for an assignment given to him on 15 November. Thoreau is also given the prompt for his next essay, “The different ideas we form of men whose pursuit is money, power, distinction, domestic happiness, and public good,” due on 20 December.

(Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 2:8; Early Essays and Miscellanies, 4-5)
6 December 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

The first term of Thoreau’s junior year ends. He earns 1,322 points for a grand total of 10,261, ranking him fourteenth out of 44 juniors (Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:16).

6 December 1841. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper edited by Alexander Chalmers, volumes 2 and 4, and Ancient English metrical romances compiled by Joseph Ritson, volumes 1-3, from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 288-9).

6 December 1842. Boston, Mass.

William Ellery Channing writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:

  I regret not having seen our forester-Thoreau, yesterday; his face would have been welcome to me . . . Now then, with the blessing of God, upon yourself, & Elizabeth [Sherman Hoar], & all other of the saints, & my fisherman [Nathaniel] Hawthorne, & the forester, & all those tutal figures, who move piously among the now bare bought, of a once populous summer-foliage.
(Studies in the American Renaissance 1989, 179)
6 December 1849. Worcester, Mass.

The Worcester Daily Spy publishes a notice of James Russell Lowell’s review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, stating that it was “what might be expected from J. Russell Lowell, when reviewing Thoreau.”

6 December 1850. Newburyport, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “An Excursion to Cape Cod” at Market Hall for the Newburyport Lyceum (“An Excursion to Cape Cod“)

Thoreau also writes in his journal:

  Being at Newburyport in the evening, Dr. (H. C.?) Perkins showed me the circulations in the nitella, which is slightly different from the chara, under the microscope (Journal, 2:121-122).

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