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9 November 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The newspaper tells me that Uncannunuc was white with snow for a short time on the morning of the 7th. Thus steadily but unobserved the winter steals down from the north, till from our highest hills we can discern its vanguard. Next week, perchance, our own hills will be white. Little did we think how near the winter was . . .
(Journal, 11:300-306)
9 November 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A fine Indian-summer day. Have had pleasant weather about a week (Journal, 12:442).

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Thoreau calls again. He thinks someone for the North should see Gov. Wise, or write concerning Capt. Brown’s character and motives, to influence the Governor in his favor. Thoreau is the man to write, or Emerson; but there seems little or no hope of pleas for mercy. Slavery must have its way, and Wise must do its bidding on peril of his own safety with the rest
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 321)
9 November 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  12 M.—To Inches’ Woods in Boxboro . . . (Journal, 14:224-227).
9 October 1829. Concord, Mass.
Henry D. Thoreau attends a meeting of the Concord Academy Debating Society. The minutes state:
After declamations from all the members, twelve-year-old Henry Thoreau (affirmative) and E. R. Hoar (negative) debated: “Does it require more talents to make a good writer than a good extemporaneous speaker?” The debate was not very animated . . . on account of some misunderstanding in the question. The President decided in the Negative, and . . . his decision was confirmed by a majority of four.
(Emerson Society Quarterly 9 (4th quarter 1957):6)
9 October 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Rufus Wilmot Griswold:

Dear Sir,  I am sorry that I can only place at your disposal three small poems printed in the “Dial”—that called “Sympathy” in no. 1.—“Sic Vita” in no. 5 and “Friendship” in no. 6. If you see fit to reprint these will you please to correct the following errors?
“         “      5th      “         “breeze         “haze.

     “              “        “          the eyes                “     our eyes 

     “              “        “          worked                 “     works.

     “            13th    “          deatest                 “     truest. 

     “             4th     “          “     “friendship”

                                       For our read one.

     “            10th    “          warden               “     warder.

I was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817, and was graduated at Harvard University, in 1837,

Yrs respectfully

Henry D Thoreau

“A note clipped to the manuscript identifies it as correction for an edition of The Poets and Poetry of America, but none of Thoreau’s poems appeared in that or any other Griswold’s anthologies”

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 54; MS, Henry David Thoreau papers (Series III). Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)
9 October 1849.

Thoreau writes in Cape Cod:

  Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October 1849, another the succeeding June and another to Truro in July 1855; the first and last time with a single companion [William Ellery Channing], the second alone . . .

  We left Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, October 9th, 1849. On reaching Boston, we found that the Provincetown steamer, which should have got in the day before, had not yet arrived, on account of a violent storm; and, as we noticed in the streets a handbill headed, “Death! one hundred and forty-five lives lost at Cohasset,” we decided to go by way of Cohasset . . . The brig St. John, from Galway, Ireland, laden with emigrants, was wrecked on Sunday morning; It was now Tuesday morning, and the sea was still breaking violent on the rocks.

(Cape Cod, 3-18)
9 October 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Plucked a wild rose the 9th of October on Fair Haven Hill (Journal, 2:72).
9 October 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I heard two screech owls in the night. Boiled a quart of acorns for breakfast, but found them not so palatable as raw, having acquired a bitterish taste, perchance form being boiled with the shells and skins; yet one would soon get accustomed to this. The sound of foxhounds in the woods, heard now, at 9 A. M., in the village, reminds me of mild winter mornings. 2 P. M.—To Conantum . . . From Conantum I see them getting hay from the meadow below the Cliffs . . .

  On Lee’s hillside by the pond, the old leaves of some pitch pines are almost of golden-yellow hue, seen in the sunlight,—a rich autumnal look . . . A large sassafras tree behind Lee’s, two feet diameter at ground. As I return over the bridge, I hear a song sparrow singing on the willows exactly as in spring. I see a large sucker rise to the surface of the river. I hear the crickets singing loudly in the walls as they have not done (so loudly) for some weeks, while the sun is going down shorn of his rays by the haze. There is a thick bed of leaves in the road under Hubbard’s elms… Cut a stout purple can of pokeweed.

(Journal, 3:58-61)
9 October 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Touch-me-not, self-heal, Bidens cernua, ladies’-tresses, cerastium, dwarf tree-primrose, butter-and-eggs (abundant), prenanthes, sium, silvery cinquefoil, mayweed. My rainbow rush must be the Juncus militaris, not yet colored.
(Journal, 4:381-382)
9 October 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Set sail with W.E.C. [William Ellery Channing] down the river . . .

  This wind carried us along glibly, I think six miles an hour, till we stopped in Billerica, just below the first bridge beyond the Carlisle Bridge,—at the Hibiscus Shore . . .

(Journal, 5:436-437)

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