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7 to 10 March 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Man as he is, is not the subject of any art, strictly speaking. The naturalist pursues his study with love, but the moralist persecutes his with hate. In man is the material of a picture, with a design partly sketched (Journal, 1:229-237).
8 – 10 December 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys the “Ministerial Lot” in the southeast of Concord (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Survey at the Concord Free Public Library, 10; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

8 and 9 April 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys farmland for Samuel Staples (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 9, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

8 and 9 April 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  April 8 and 9. More or less rainy (Journal, 13:244).
8 and 9 March 1844. Boston, Mass.

The Boston Courier, Boston Evening Mercantile Journal, and Boston Post advertize Thoreau’s lecture to be given at Amory Hall 10 March. As it appeared in Post, the ad read:

Sunday Lectures at Amory Hall

  Henry D. Thoreau, of Concord, will lecture at Amory Hall, in the Morning and Evening of Sunday next.
  The discussion of Non-Resistance will be continued in the Afternoon.
  Hours of meeting, 10 1/2 A.M., 2 1/2 and 7 1/2 P.M. The public are invited to attend. A Collection will be taken to defray the expenses.

(“Conservatives and Reformers” (I); Studies in the American Renaissance 1995, 144)
8 April 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes his poem “Friendship” in his journal:

I think awhile of Love, and, while I think,
   Love is to me a world,
   Sole meat and sweetest drink,
   And close connecting link
   ’Tween heaven and earth.

I only know it is, not how or why,
   My greatest happiness;
   However hard I try,
   Not if I were to die,
   Can I explain . . .

(Journal, 1:40-43)
8 April 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  There goes a six-horse team, and a man by its side. He has rolled out of his cradle into a Tom-and-Jerry, and goes about his business while Nature goes about hers, without standing agape at his condition. As though sixty years were not enough for these things! What have death, and the cholera, and the immortal destiny of man,to do with the shipping interests ? There is an unexplained bravery in this. What with bare astonishment one would think that man had his hands full for so short a term. But this is no drawback on the lace-working and cap-making interests. Some attain to such a degree of sang-froid and nonchalance as to be weavers of toilet cushions and manufacturers of pinheads, without once flinching or the slightest affection of the nerves, for the period of a natural life.
(Journal, 1:76)
8 April 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  How can I help myself? By withdrawing into a garret, and associating with spiders and mice—determining to meet myself face to face sooner or later (Journal, 1:132-133).
8 April 1841.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Friends are the ancient and honorable of the earth. The oldest men did not begin friendship. It is older than Hindostan and the Chinese Empire. How long has it been cultivated, and is still the staple article! It is a divine league struck forever. Warm, serene days only bring it out to the surface. There is a friendliness between the sun and the earth in pleasant weather; the gray content of the land is its color.
(Journal, 1:246)

Scituate, Mass. Ellen Sewall writes in her diary:

  A letter from dear Aunty [Prudence Ward] came [to]day. John has given up his school and is now journeying in New Hampshire for the benefit of his health. Poor fellow, I am sorry he cannot follow an occupation which he enjoys so much and in which he satisfied both parents and scholars. Henry is about purchasing a farm in Concord, the “Hallowell place” containing about thirty acres.
(transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods; MS, private owner)
8 April 1842. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s sister Helen places an advertisement for a girls’ school in the Concord Freeman (Concord Freeman, 8 April 1842:3). The advertisement runs in the 15 and 22 April issues as well.

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