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6 February 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to a Mr. Hawkins (The Correspondence (2013, Princeton), 1:34).

6 February 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. When I observe my friend’s conduct toward others, then chiefly I learn the traits in his character, and in each case I am unprepared for the issue.
(Journal, 1:197-201)
6 February 1843. Concord, Mass.

Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her husband Ralph Waldo:

  Henry has so far improved in health as to be quite able, as he thinks, to shovel snow once more, deep though it be. He has made very handsome paths from both doors and the great blocks of snow lie on each side attesting that they were no trifle to dispose of—I don’t know that I ever saw the snow deeper on a level . . . I have written you yet a third letter which I hope you found awaiting you in N. York. This unmercifully long one is to go in the promised pacquet if it goes after all. I have waited for Henry’s letter which I had bespoken—but he has deferred writing with my consent till you had answered his first one . . . The other evening Elizabeth [Elizabeth Hoar] gave me a paper written by Ann Whiting—“Thoughts on Conversation”—I was surprised at its excellence. Eliz. & Henry like it I believe as well as I do.
(The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 126-127)
6 February 1850. Saco, Maine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Thoreau:

Dear Henry,  

  I was at South Danvers on Monday Evening, & promised Mr C. Northend, Secretary of the Lyceum, to invite you for Monday 18th Feb. to read a lecture to his institution. I told him there were two lectures to describe Cape Cod, which interested him & his friends, & they hoped that the two might somehow be rolled into one to give them some sort of complete story of the journey. I hope it will not quite discredit my negotiation if I confess that they heard with joy that Concord people laughed till they cried, when it was read to them. I understand Mr N., that there is a possibility but no probability that his absent colleague of the Lyceum has filled up that evening by an appointment. But Mr N. will be glad to hear from you that you will come, & if any cause exist why not, he will immediately reply to you. They will pay your expenses, & $10.00. You will go from the Salem depot in an omnibus to Mr N.’s house. Do go if you can. Address Charles Northend, Esq. South Danvers.

Yours ever
R. W. Emerson

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 255)
6 February 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  3 P. M.—Round by C. Miles’s place. It is still thawy . . . (Journal, 3:280-283).
6 February 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Observed some buds on a young apple tree, partially unfolded at the extremity and apparently swollen. Probably blossom-buds (Journal, 4:490).
6 February 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Cliffs and Walden . . .

  Hear the old owl at 4.30 P.M. Crossing Walden where the snow has fallen quite level, I perceive that my shadow [is of] a delicate or transparent blue rather than black . . .

(Journal, 6:101-103)
6 February 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The coldest morning this winter. Our thermometer stands at -14° at 9 A.M.; others, we hear, at 6 A. m. stood at -18°, at Gorham, N.H., -30°. There are no loiterers in the street, and the wheels of wood wagons squeak as they have not for a long time,—actually shriek. Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber. At 4 P.M. the thermometer is at -10°; at six it is at -14°.

  I was walking at five, and found it stinging cold. It stung the face. When I look out at the chimneys, I see that the cold and hungry air snaps up the smoke at once . . . At 9 o’clock P. M., thermometer at -16°. They say it did not rise above -6° to-day.

(Journal, 7:172-173)
6 February 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Walden . . .

  Goodwin says that he has caught two crows this winter in his traps set in water for mink, and baited with fish . . . (Journal, 8:167-168).

6 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Down the railroad to see the glaze, the first we have had this year, but not a very good one. It is about a fifth or sixth of an inch thick on the northeast sides of twigs . . . not transparent, but of an opaque white, granular character . . .
(Journal, 9:240)

Thoreau writes a letter to H.G.O. Blake:

Mr. Blake,
 
  I will come to you on Friday Feb. 13th with that lecture. You may call it “The Wild”—or “Walking” or both—whichever you choose. I told [Theo] Brown that it had not been much altered since I read it in Worcester, but now I think of it, much of it must have been new to you, because, having since divided it into two, I am able to read what before I omitted. Nevertheless, I should like to have it understood by those whom it concerns, that I am invited to read in public (if it be so) what I have already read, in part, to a private audience.

  Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 465).

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