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After 27 June 1846. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:

  H.D.T. seems to think that society suffers for want of war, or some good excitant. But how partial that is! the masses suffer for want of work as barbarous as they are. What is the difference? Now the tiger has got a joint of fresh meat to tear & eat: Before, he had only bones to grind & gnaw. But this concerns only the tigers, & leaves the men where they were . . .  Society is a curiosity shop full of odd excellences, a Bramin, a Fakeer, a giraffe, an alligator, Col Bowie, Alvah Crocker, Bronson Alcott, Henry Thoreau, Caroline Sturgis; a world that cannot keep step, admirable melodies, but no chorus, for there is no accord.
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 9:434)
after 30 January 1842. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:

  “Are there any other countries?” Yes “I wish you to name the other countries” so I went on to name London, Paris, Amsterdam, Cairo, &c But HDT well said in allusion to his large way of speech that “his questions did not admit of an answer; they were the same which you would ask yourself”
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8:165)
After 6 August 1845. Walden Pond.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Twenty-three years since, when I was five years old, I was brought from Boston to this pond, away in the country,—which was then but another name for the extended world for me,—one of the most ancient scenes stamped on the tablets of my memory, the oriental Asiatic valley of my world, whence so many races and inventions have gone forth in recent times. That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams . . . Somehow or other it at once gave the preference to this recess among the pines, where almost sunshine and shadow were the only inhabitants that varied the scene, over that tumultuous and varied city, as if it had found its proper nursery. Well, now, to-night my flute awakes the echoes over this very water, but one generation of pines has fallen, and with their stumps I have cooked my supper, and a lusty growth of oaks and pines is rising all around its brim and preparing its wilder aspect for new infant eyes.
(Journal, 1:380-381)
After 7 April 1849. Concord, Mass.

The Yeoman’s Gazette publishes an article entitled “Our Townsman-Mr. Thoreau” lauding the New-York Daily Tribune article of 7 April (Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 173).

after 7 February 1844. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:

  Precisely what the painter or the sculptor or the epic rhapsodist feels, I feel in the presence of this house, which stands to me for the human race, the desire, namely, to express myself fully, symmetrically, gigantically to them, not dwarfishly & fragmentarily. H.D.T., with whom I talked of this last night, does not or will not perceive how natural is this, and only hears the word Art in a sinister sense.
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 9:71)
After 9 November 1855.

Crosby & Nichols [?] writes to Thoreau:

De Sir,

  The parcel of books referred to in your letter of the 9th has not yet reached us.

  We suppose that our case whi contained it was left behind at Liverpool and shall expect it by next Steamer.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 400; MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)
After August 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn:

Friday eve

  If you chance to be going to Cambridge. . . will . . . you take a small volume to the library. . . It is so rare a book I do not like to trust the expressmen with it . . . (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 429)

April 1836.

Thoreau writes a college essay, “Advantages and disadvantages of foreign influence on American literature” (Early Essays and Miscellanies, 38-41).

April 1838. Concord, Mass.?

Lidian Jackson Emerson writes to her sister Lucy Jackson Brown:

  Mr [Cornelius Conway] Felton was here too, yesterday—and we invited to meet them H. Thoreau—Rockwood H. [Hoar] & Mr [Barzillai?] Frost. So you see in the midst of hurried preparation for my journey I had to dine five gentlemen—give tea to two and also a room each at night.
(The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, 73)
April 1843.

Thoreau’s “Anacreon,” “Ethnical Scriptures,” “To a Stray Fowl,” “Orphics,” “Dark Ages,” and “Friendship from Chaucer’s ‘Romaunt of the Rose’” appear in the twelfth issue of the Dial, which Thoreau edited (Dial (1961), 3:484-490, 493-494, 506-507, 527-531).

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