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July 1848.

“The Wilds of the Penobscot,” Thoreau’s first of five installments of “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” appears in Sartain’s Union Magazine.

July 1849. New York, N.Y.

Holden’s Dollar Magazine has a review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers that makes comparisons to Emerson’s writings.

July 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys the “Burying Ground Street” and two proposed roads, one towards Bedford and one from the Burying Ground to William Pedrick’s house (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

July 1855.

Putnam’s Monthly Magazine publishes Thoreau’s travel essays on Cape Cod, unattributed.

July 1856. Boston, Mass.

An article on “The Literature of Friendship” in The North American Review mentions Thoreau, along with many other notable literary figures:

But perhaps the worthiest paper on the subject is contained in the “Wednesday” of Thoreau’s “Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,”—a composition which every one enamored of the theme should reperuse and ponder. “Friendship is evanescent in every man’s experience, and remembered like heat-lightning in past summers.” “Of what use is the friendliest disposition, if no hours are given to friendship?”

(The North American Review, vol. 83 issue 172 (July 1856):110-111)
July 1858.

The Atlantic Monthly publishes the second of three installments of Thoreau’s “Chesuncook.”

July 1862.

George William Curtis discusses Thoreau in his “Editor’s Easy Chair” column in Harper’s Magazine (Harper’s Magazine, vol. 25, no. 146 (July 1862):270-271).

June 1846.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse is published:

There is a wilder interest in the tract of land—perhaps a hundred yards in breadth—which extends between the battle-field and the northern face of our old Manse, with its contiguous avenue and orchard. Here, in some unknown age, before the white man came, stood an Indian village, convenient to the river, whence its inhabitants must have drawn so large a part of their substance. The site is identified by the spear and arrow-heads, the chisels, and other implements of war, labor, and the chase, which the plough turns up from the soil. You see a splinter of stone, half hidden beneath a sod; it looks like nothing worthy of note; but, if you have faith enough to pick it up—behold a relic! Thoreau, who has a strange faculty of finding what the Indians have left behind them, first set me on the search; and I afterwards enriched myself with some very perfect specimens, so rudely wrought that it seemed almost as if chance had fashioned them. (Mosses from an Old Manse, 1:8).The pond-lily grows abundantly along the margin; that delicious flower which, as Thoreau tells me, opens its virgin bosom to the first sunlight, and perfects its being through the magic of that genial kiss. He has beheld beds of them unfolding in due succession, as the sunrise stole gradually from flower to flower; a sight not to be hoped for, unless when a poet adjusts his inward eye to a proper focus with the outward organ.
(Mosses from an Old Manse, 1:20)
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The Old Manse (The Paul Brooks Collection)

 

June 1855.

Putnam’s Magazine publishes Thoreau’s travel essays on Cape Cod, unattributed.

June 1858.

The Atlantic Monthly publishes the first of three installments of Thoreau’s “Chesuncook.”

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