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6 September 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Assabet, west bank. Turned off south at Derby’s Bridge and walked through a long field, half meadow half upland . . . (Journal, 10:25-26).
6 September 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  6 A.M.—To Merrick’s shore.

  Hear a warbling vireo, sounding very rare and rather imperfect. I think this is what I have mistaken for the young purple finch note . . .

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp . . .

  Stopped and talked with W——W—— and ate a watermelon with him on the grass . . .

(Journal, 11:146-148)
6 September 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Hear the sounds nowadays—the lowing, tramps, and calls of the drivers—of cows coming down from up-country . . .

  I hear occasionally a half-warbled strain from a warbling vireo in the elm-tops, as I go down the street. There is about as much life in their notes now as in the enfeebled and yellowing elm tree leaves at present . . .

(Journal, 12:316-317)
6 September 1860.
Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The willows and button-bushes have very rapidly yellowed . . . (Journal, 14:74).

Lowell, Mass. Charles P. Ricker writes to Thoreau:

Mr. H. D. Thoreau:

  Yours of the 31st. is recieved. We shall expect you to address our people next Sabbath. Arriving at Lowell, you will find me at No 21 Central Street, or at residence No. 123 East Merrimack Street, or you can take a coach direct to Mr. Owen’s, No 52 East Merrimack Street, who will be in readiness to entertain you, and with whom you will find a pleasant home during your stay among us.

  Hoping to see you soon I remain

Yours Respectfully
Charles P. Ricker

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 589; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series IV). Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)
6 September 1861. Concord, Mass.

William Ellery Channing writes to Mary Russell Watson:

  You ask for Mr Thoreau’s health. He is no better. No hope that he can spend the winter in a cold climate (The Emerson Society Quarterly 14 (1st quarter 1959):79).
6 to 7 May 1838. Augusta, Maine.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Brunswick to Augusta via Gardiner & Hallowell (Journal, 1:48).
6, 7, 13, 14, and 16 May 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys a factory site for Edward Damon (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 6; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

7 April 1836. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau writes an essay on Sir Henry Vane (Early Essays and Miscellanies, 36-7).

7 April 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Most have sufficient contempt for what is mean to resolve that they will abstain from it, and a few virtue enough to abide by their resolution, but not often does one attain to such lofty contempt as to require no resolution to be made.
(Journal, 1:75-76)
7 April 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  My life will wait for nobody, but is being matured still irresistibly while I go about the streets and chaffer with this man and that to secure it a living (Journal, 1:244-246).

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