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8 December 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up river and meadow on ice to Hubbard Bridge and thence to Walden . . . (Journal, 7:80-81).
8 December 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  This afternoon I go to the woods down the railroad, seeking the society of some flock of small birds, or some squirrel, but in vain . . .

  Met Therien coming from Lincoln on the railroad. He says that he carried a cat from Jacob Baker’s to Riordan’s shanty in a bag at night, but she ran home again . . .

  Jacob Farmer brought me the head of a mink to-night and took tea here.

(Journal, 8:39-41)
8 December 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Thermometer at 8 A.M., 8°above zero. Probably the coldest day yet . . . (Journal, 9:169-170)
8 December 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  [Sam] Staples says he came to Concord some twenty-four years ago a poor boy with a dollar and three cents in his pocket, and he spent the three cents for a drink at Bigelow’s tavern, and now he’s worth “twenty hundred dollars clear.” He remembers many who inherited wealth whom he can buy out to-day. I told him that he had done better than I in a pecuniary respect, for I had only earned my living . . .
(Journal, 10:221-222)
8 December 1858. New Bedford, Mass.

Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:

  Spent the forenoon in the Shanty with Thoreau and Cholmondeley talking of mankind and his relationships here and hereafter. Walked with C. to the rocky bluff beyond the village to get a view of New Bedford. Smoked after dinner with C. while Thoreau and Walton examined Anna’s collection of plants. Thoreau and Cholmondeley walked.
(Daniel Ricketson and His Friends, 310)
8 December 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Here is a better glaze than we have yet had, for it snowed and rained in the night.

  I go to Pleasant Meadow,—or rather toward the sun, for the glaze shows best so . . .

  When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. I am not surprised that certain of my neighbors speak of John Brown as an ordinary felon. Who are they? They have much flesh, or at least much coarseness of some kind. They are not ethereal natures, or the dark qualities predominate in them, or they have much office. Several of them are decidedly pachydermatous. How can a man behold the light who has no answering inward light? They are true to their sight, but when they look this way they see nothing, they are blind . . .

  Certain persons disgraced themselves by hanging Brown in effigy in this town on the 2d. I was glad to know that the only four whose names I heard mentioned in connection with it had not been long resident here, and had done nothing to secure the respect of the town . . .

(Journal, 13:14-18)
8 February 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  When the poetic frenzy seizes us, We run and scratch with our pen, delighting, like the cock, in the dust we make, but do not detect where the jewel lies, which perhaps we have in the meantime cast to a distance, or quite covered up again (Journal, 1:73).

8 February 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To be of most service to my brother I must meet him on the most equal and even ground, the platform on which our lives are passing. But how often does politeness permit this? (Journal, 1:205-209).

Thoreau also pays his father $10 towards a debt (The Personality of Thoreau (1901), 28).

8 February 1843. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “The Life and Character of Sir Walter Raleigh” at the Masonic Hall for the Concord Lyceum (“The Life and Character of Sir Walter Raleigh“).

8 February 1849. Boston, Mass.

Ticknor & Co. writes to Thoreau: Ticknor & Co. writes to Thoreau:

Dear Sir:

  We find on looking over publishing matters that we cannot well undertake anything more at present. If however you feel inclined we will publish “Walden or Life in the Woods” on our own ace, say one Thousand copies, allowing, for 10 pr.ct. copyright on the Retail Price on all that are sold. The style of printing & binding to be like [Ralph Waldo] Emerson’s Essays.

  Respy

  Ticknor & Co.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 236)

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